> > I gave a plenary talk at a big MAA meeting a few months ago. It was > entirely a live demo using the Sage notebook. It went perfectly. > Stan Wagon gave another talk in using the Mathematica notebook, and it > surprisingly had numerous bugs/problems as a result of bugs in > Mathematica's notebook. The reason my talk went well was that: > > (1) I carefully prepared it. > > (2) I carefully tested it, especially deleting all input cells then > clicking "Action --> Evaluate All" before the talk a few times, just > to make sure the talk really worked. > > Using Evaluate All before the talk is absolutely critical. > It's also a very good idea to always have a backup plan, i.e. some > sort of static version of the talk (like what Marshall describes > above, or just pdf of something) just in case. E.g, have a working > version of the talk installed and tested on a remote server "just in > case". Another easier static version that feels must more like the > notebook while being "safe" is to take screenshots of each slide in > the worksheet.
I guess I just like to do it the other way around, with a screencast primarily and a notebook for interactive questions. Often, after an intro sage talk someone will ask, "Can Sage do X" and I can show them on the notebook. But I like the screencasts for more than just reliability - it frees the speaker to concentrate on the audience and what I am saying to them. I am looking forward to a good slideshow mode though and hopefully I can spend a little time helping with that. -Marshall --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
