Tablets for Future Presentations

Tablets for Future Presentations

PowerPoint has become an industry standard; a slide for every few minutes; make sure there are plenty of images and graphs to understand; if you were to eat steak every night, you would get sick of it -society is looking for an evolutionary step from PowerPoint to the next big thing. What if the next big thing was already available to the public? In fact, what if the next big thing was already sitting in our homes and just not being utilized for public speaking as well as it could.

iPad, Microsoft Surface, and even Android tablets have all the power and potential to make a great presentation, but they are often not seen as the right tool for the job. Tablets are portable, touch screen and easy to use, connect via WiFi or mobile signal, and generally last a significant amount of hours with moderate usage. A huge benefit to using tablets as an evolutionary step would be that application development is today's best technology advancement, and apps are being designed for mobile and tablet usage on a daily basis. With the right application, a Tablet could link up with all the other tablets in a room, this master unit would control all the others as slave units (they would follow and do exactly what the master unit wants them to do) and the students or listeners could follow along.

To be interactive, poll questions could be submitted through the application and rather than a show of hands, audience members select on screen keeping it more anonymous. More members would find themselves being actively paying attention with an interactive hands on experience than with just listening alone. The information could then be gathered and displayed for the speakers notes, or shown on a projection, or announced some how.

If a presenter had a Q&A segment, it would take microphones, question screening, waiting for setups, and many other hurdles that just take up time along the way. If tablets using the proper application were available, questions could be submitted and viewed along the way, chosen by the speaker at random or at their discretion, either along the way of the presentation or during a small Q&A break segment.

Tablets are the evolutionary step which can merge handouts/take homes, PowerPoint presentations, and q&a/poll interaction. It could be gathered, organized, and displayed for everyone to see or as it’s needed to suit the presenter. More comfort means more interaction,  more response, more people listening to what a speaker has to say.