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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
 At 2003-12-15 09:46 -0500, Jonathan Robie wrote: >I just finished presenting an 8 hour tutorial and two presentations using >PowerPoint >... >What is the "cognitive style" of writing documents in XML vs. PowerPoint, >Word, or FrameMaker? Isn't cognitive style based on the nature of the information rather than the tool being used? >Do the tools we use to write affect the way we think? Absolutely! Which means you should use a tool that matches with the way you need to think. I have to project my tutorial and presentation materials to an audience, but the act of projection is the final step of the process. My cognitive structure I've chosen for teaching is "course/module/lesson/frame/pane" where each pane represents something that I want my students to see and to which I talk and present. Whether that final pane is shown using HTML, PowerPoint, a page generated by XSL-FO, or whatever, that doesn't change the way I *think* about the material I'm teaching. It happens I use HTML for projecting a pane because I have more flexibility for working with long panes where content flows off the bottom of the screen. I can scroll up and down, jump around the page, and do what I need that I cannot do with a fixed-frame-sized Microsoft PowerPoint or OpenOffice Impress. So, to think about my course or presentation as just that, I use hierarchical XML as my tool because the non-hierarchical desktop presentation tools don't reflect the way I think about teaching my material. In fact I think using my XML structure improves my presentations because it forces me to think in the pedagogical fashion that I've modeled. I've noted XML-related slide-show models that I've seen that are freely available are just for slide shows ... a flat, non-hierarchical collection of pages. Even though those are XML I cannot use them to organize my material in the nature of the way I teach ... which is why all along I stick to my internal document model. Just writing the content in XML doesn't address my "cognitive style" of working with training information ... only using my private document model addresses my style of thinking of training. Which isn't to say that is the way I think *all* people should deliver training material ... I've just tuned my stuff to work with the way I do it. At 2003-12-15 09:46 -0500, Jonathan Robie wrote: >at a conference where they strongly prefer that we write our presentations >in XML. Note that at XML'2003 I was only asked to submit my paper in XML, I wasn't asked to submit my presentation slides in XML. They've mandated a document model related to the semantics of writing a paper, and I was able to fit that just fine as all I was doing when writing a paper was writing a paper. The associated slides that I projected were authored separately, and that is fine with me as the organization of my projection is necessarily different than the organization of my paper. My audiences wouldn't accept me projecting my paper (full of paragraphs) but do accept me projecting my bulleted layout and repackaging of the information. I hope this helps. ...................... Ken -- North America (Washington, DC): 3-day XSLT/2-day XSL-FO 2004-02-09 Instructor-led on-site corporate, government & user group training for XSLT and XSL-FO world-wide: please contact us for the details G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@C... Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/x/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995) ISBN 0-13-065196-6 Definitive XSLT and XPath ISBN 0-13-140374-5 Definitive XSL-FO ISBN 1-894049-08-X Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath ISBN 1-894049-11-X Practical Formatting Using XSL-FO Member of the XML Guild of Practitioners: http://XMLGuild.info Male Breast Cancer Awareness http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/x/bc 
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