I want to do some presentations, and I have some ideas. I’m going to work on them over Christmas break, so that I have something I can pull out at the last minute if needed.
Here are a few ideas- I would love some co-presenters, so if anyone wants to team up, let me know. Also let me know if you have any creative title ideas- I’m horrible at titles.
- Zotero and RefWorks- similarities and differences – I’ll be doing this as a brown bag for my library in January.
- Zotero – I’d like to put something together just on Zotero, but I envision this could be done with a few other people, where they present on open source software they like, too.
- Networking/Blogging – This is only a very general idea. I want to talk about blogging and other social activities as a professional networking tool. This might be a good one for fellow library students.
- Linux for non-techies – Possible title “I am Linux, and you can too!” – might be too obscure,. I want to just show off Linux (particularly Ubuntu), tell some of the advantages and disadvantages, show some easy ways to get started, and list some situations for which Linux might be a good possibility.
- OLPC – I would REALLY like to do a presentation on the One Laptop Per Child project, computing in the developing world and children and technology. However, I would need to actually buy an OLPC, and I’m short on cash right now. The OLPC is saying this is the only time they will make them available, too. I still have a few days to Give One Get One. Erg. I suppose I can do a presentation even if I don’t have one, but having one would really give the presentation some snap.
- Open Access for Librarians – I’d like to rework my previous presentation and give it again. I think bringing up the OLPC project in this context leads even more credence to the argument- if kids in developing nations have access to the internet, free and open access to information is even more important.
- Open Source for Librarians – in the same vein, I’d like to create an “Open Source for Librarians” presentation that details the concepts behind open source and applications in the library.
That’s a start for now, I suppose. I’m sure I’ll have more ideas later.
I’ve been inspired by Jessamyn West‘s beautiful and playful “What Works: More My Library, Less MySpace” presentation slides:
Seriously, go look at them all (pdf). We need more presentations like this! It’s made me want to run out and buy a Mac with Keynote, though I know I don’t NEED that to get good results.