getting started with sliderocket

Professional-authoring

If you choose to do a presentation for your week 4 group assignment, here are some tips to get you started with Sliderocket.

  • Introduction videoThis will give you a good short overview about SR. 
  • Free trial signup. Sliderocket is free for personal use, but to access all the 'gee-whiz' features, especially collaboration tools, You can signup for a 30-day free trial of a full business account here. 
  • Collaboration. This is important. To get the full collaboration functionality of SR you need to have just one account for each team. One person can signup for a trial account, then within that account give additional usernames and passwords to the rest of their team.  If every team member signs up for their own personal account collaboration on a presentation is a lot harder. (it's a subtle distinction, but tripped up a lot of folks in my last class. If you have questions about this email me)
  • Training. Sliderocket runs a free 45 minute online seminar every Wednesday. If you're still a little unsure of how the whole thing works and how to get started this is a good place to get help.
  • Presentation hints. You should see a link below to a presentation I put together a few months ago about presentation tips. Not all will be relevant to this assignment, but they will be to your week 6 final presentation.

week two "take it to work" tip - motion charts

motion charts are a great way to display really complex information. here's what they look like.

A good overview of how they can be used is in this TED presentation, http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html

The best part? You can use this tool for free. Google bought the technology, and integrated it into the Google docs spreadsheet. You can get some pointers on use here.

I guarantee if you find the right data set in your company, and put one of these charts together, you'll be a rock star.