Technology Archive

  • PowerPoint Pitfalls (and How to “Purge” Them from Your Presentations)

    PowerPoint Pitfalls (and How to “Purge” Them from Your Presentations)

    This column is a series designed to help enhance your PowerPoint presentations. Each edition pinpoints common pitfalls faced when planning, preparing, and presenting PowerPoint shows.

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  • Social Media: Interp 2.0

    Social Media: Interp 2.0

    Have you ever noticed how similar the words interpret and Internet are? They only differ by a couple of letters. Yet they are vastly different in concept. Or are they?

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  • Social Media: Gadgets

    Social Media: Gadgets

    These tools are not just a new way for interpreters to talk to the public. Social media is a new way to listen. Interpreters try to influence the way visitors think and behave. Social media is the visitor’s chance to influence the way we think and behave.

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  • PowerPoint Pitfalls: Sounds

    PowerPoint Pitfalls: Sounds

    This column is a series designed to help enhance your PowerPoint presentations. Each edition pinpoints common pitfalls faced when planning, preparing, and presenting PowerPoint shows.

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  • Social Media: Networking with Visitors

    Social Media: Networking with Visitors

    Imagine if you could instantly talk to interpreters around the world—share stories, exchange ideas, discuss experiences, and request solutions to problems. Imagine if you could easily talk to your visitors while they are planning their trip, throughout their stay, and even after they have gone home.

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  • PowerPoint Pitfalls: Resolution

    PowerPoint Pitfalls: Resolution

    This column is a series designed to help enhance your PowerPoint presentations. Each edition pinpoints common pitfalls faced when planning, preparing, and presenting PowerPoint shows.

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  • Exploring Wi-Fi-Ready Interpretation

    Exploring Wi-Fi-Ready Interpretation

    The other day, I visited a popular coffee shop around the corner from my home in Marquette, Michigan. I ordered a hot beverage and sat down to enjoy a National Park Service multimedia program (i.e., podcast) called Yosemite Nature Notes.

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  • Community History in the Canadian Rockies: Students Combine Stories and Technology to Map Their Town

    Community History in the Canadian Rockies: Students Combine Stories and Technology to Map Their Town

    It started beneath the earth, 175 million years ago. The Pacific tectonic plate inched under the North American plate. Land masses collided and enormous slabs of rock were forced upwards—the Rocky Mountains. Backdrop, destination, and testament to the area’s rich geological and social history, the snow-capped peaks surround the town of Banff in Alberta, Canada, and occupy a central spot in its past—and present.

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