Comments | blpurdom: Azkatraz, here I come

blpurdom

Azkatraz, here I come

Mar 04, 2009 17:35

I just received an email telling me that both presentations I proposed for Azkatraz were accepted! One is a paper entitled "Harry and Tarot: Reflections of the Major Arcana in the Harry Potter Books", and the other is a roundtable: "JK Rowling and the Splintered Audience" (based in part upon the interesting discussion engendered when I posted an ( Read more... )

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flourish March 4 2009, 23:10:32 UTC

I'm looking forward to seeing it!

flourish March 4 2009, 23:11:16 UTC

Er, seeing the presentations, I mean. I kin talk good.

blpurdom March 4 2009, 23:53:29 UTC

Hee! That's okay, Maddy. I knew what you meant. :)

huehau March 5 2009, 02:35:38 UTC

Your kids can probably help you with Powerpoint. I know my young cousins were working with it in elementary school. I also know my youngest cousin feels bad for me because I had to do things the hard way growing up without the Internet.

blpurdom March 5 2009, 02:51:39 UTC

You are so right. In fact, Rachel already had a good idea on how to avoid my paying for a copy of a program I'll probably never need again: download a freeware version.

And THEN she can teach me how to use it. ;)

folk March 5 2009, 07:18:10 UTC

The trick with PowerPoint is to keep yourself to five words a slide maximum. Otherwise you're tempted to just read the damn thing out, and that Makes PowerPoint Suck.

blpurdom March 5 2009, 12:47:20 UTC

Actually, it'll be more like a slide show than anything else, with images of the Tarot cards, so I don't even think I'll be having more words on any screen other than the title of one of the books, images of the cards that "go" with each book, etc. The images will be the prompt for what I'll be saying but what I'm saying won't be on the screens displayed.