{"id":193,"date":"2006-07-12T10:52:56","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T14:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2006\/07\/12\/a-web-friendly-powerpoint-alternative\/"},"modified":"2006-07-12T10:52:56","modified_gmt":"2006-07-12T14:52:56","slug":"a-web-friendly-powerpoint-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2006\/07\/12\/a-web-friendly-powerpoint-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"A Web-Friendly PowerPoint Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"

While spending two days in New York attending An Event Apart<\/a>, I saw some cool stuff about standards-compliant web design & development, CSS best-practices, and unobtrusive JavaScript. Most of that doesn’t mean much to most of the people who might happen across this blog. However, one thing that I did see that could have a profound effect in education (and education on the web) was Eric Meyer’s S5<\/a>.
\nS5 is the Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System and was running each of the presentations that was shown at AEA. The beauty of it is that it uses some basic (pre-written) JavaScript and CSS to create a “PowerPoint” style slideshow using one standards-based, semantically-written XHTML file.
\nThe bonus of this is that since the file is already HTML-based, it’s already formatted for the web. And since it’s relatively lightweight and doesn’t require any server-side technology, it can be easily run locally from a laptop without an Internet connection or from within an LMS like WebCT or Blackboard, and it can be viewed without CSS or JavaScript as a simple outline (which after all, is all a PowerPoint show really is) on a handheld or other such devices. And, since it uses standards-based XHTML, there’s no longer the ability to destroy your presentation with PowerPoint (and its ridiculous “feature” set (read spinny\/twirly things)).
\nS5 – A Simple, Standards-based Slide Show System<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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