Web+2.0+Tech+Tips


 * Fiesta 7: Desktop Spaces**

For this assignment, I decided to make templates for a presentation about some useful technology tools, or "tech tips." I envision this template being used for an adult audience, perhaps faculty, staff or students at an academic library who would be interested in learning about tools to increase their productivity in the workplace or in their academic studies. I wanted the presentation to be very brief, so that busy people wouldn't mind taking a few minutes out of their day to stop by and learn about a new productivity-enhancing tool. I imagine using this template for tutorial sessions on topics such as social bookmarking, software or tools such as EndNote or Zotero, wikis, blogs, and more. Although I made the template with adults in mind (and therefore kept it reasonably minimalistic and not as eye-catching or interactive as I might have made it if intending it for a younger audience) it could certainly be easily adapted for younger audiences. In particular, I think adding extra slides with videos or screenshots would be nice when actually presenting, depending upon the audience and the time frame. I think this template could be used both for a teacher wanting to present the material and for a learner as a way to organize their learning about a new technology and teach it to others, which I always believe is the best way to learn something yourself!

I used PowerPoint to make a basic template for a presentation, which you can download and view here:

For my first example, I wrote about how to use the social bookmarking website Diigo. You can see the example PowerPoint presentation here:

For an alternate example I used the template to create a more general library presentation, rather than a Web 2.0 topic, and chose to write about learning and using the Library of Congress classification system. You can see this example here: