A better way to do remote presentations

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36 points·petercooper··6 comments

Every talk should include a link to the slides at the beginning and end of the deck, preferably with a shortened URL. This allows live viewers random access but also improves recorded talks. I often want to evaluate the content of a talk to see if I should invest 30-60 minutes watching. This would also help users with accessibility needs.

Absolutely this.

I've also taken to putting a QR code on the first slide in the deck, when I give the talk live. It seems silly to have people rush top copy down the URL when we have this convenient URL-communicating technology at hand.

(Example" https://perl.plover.com/classes/greenlight/samples/slide001....)

Teams has solved most of this by giving viewers a client side copy, adjust to your local viewing preferences, and to jump around in the slides and back to wherever the presenter is.

What's missing though is a synchronization of videos played in the presentation.

Even with teams, this is a very nice approach as you can use another device to see the slides/watch the speaker.

I've been delivering training in a similar way for a few months and the experience (as trainer!) has improved a lot because I'm able to keep a much more direct contact with the students.

And a remarkable point (I think) is that you are not limited to 5-10 fps provided by the shared screen feature: the transitions between slides becomes much more natural, less clunky.

I really think delivering good remote training is very complex as we need to learnt new tricks (and forget some old ones). And, in the end, is the sum of many little small improvements like this one what can make the experience a success.

Edited, to correct a bit my poor English ;-)

Docsend does this too. Have you seen their functionality? Curious if your vision is different

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