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PowerPoint Pitfalls (and How to “Purge” Them from Your Presentations)
Posted on July 19, 2010 | No CommentsThis column is a series designed to help enhance your PowerPoint presentations. Each edition pinpoints common pitfalls faced when planning, preparing, and presenting PowerPoint shows. -
Social Media: Interp 2.0
Posted on April 16, 2010 | 2 CommentsHave 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? -
Social Media: Gadgets
Posted on January 25, 2010 | 1 CommentThese 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. -
PowerPoint Pitfalls: Sounds
Posted on December 16, 2009 | 4 CommentsThis column is a series designed to help enhance your PowerPoint presentations. Each edition pinpoints common pitfalls faced when planning, preparing, and presenting PowerPoint shows. -
Social Media: Networking with Visitors
Posted on November 13, 2009 | 1 CommentImagine 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. -
PowerPoint Pitfalls: Resolution
Posted on June 14, 2009 | 1 CommentThis column is a series designed to help enhance your PowerPoint presentations. Each edition pinpoints common pitfalls faced when planning, preparing, and presenting PowerPoint shows. -
Exploring Wi-Fi-Ready Interpretation
Posted on May 7, 2009 | 2 CommentsThe 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. -
Community History in the Canadian Rockies: Students Combine Stories and Technology to Map Their Town
Posted on April 6, 2009 | No CommentsIt 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.