Getting the Message Across

Stéphane Faroult is primarily known as a database specialist and author. He also has a dotted but regular experience of teaching that dates back to the 1980s. He has taught students full-time so far at two different universities (in Canada and in the US Middle West), with 30 years of consulting in-between. He has also taught part-time at several French schools of engineering, on various subjects. He has given countless training courses and seminars on database topics to professionals. He has spoken multiple times at user group conferences, given a webinar, and given technical sales presentations to customers. More than once he has had to talk many time-zones away from home in a language that isn't his native one (nor, sometimes, his audience's), relying on massive amounts of coffee and solid slides to survive the ordeal. More recently, he has turned some of his presentations into video tutorials that have met much success on the web, and which have proven to be a great way to experiment in techniques he now wishes to share.

• Introduction.-.-1. Designing a Presentation.-2. The Score.-3. Populating Slides.-4. Editing Images.-5. Transitions.-6. Animations.-7. Putting the Magic Together.- 8. Appendix A. Introducing Oneself.- 9. Appendix B. Licensing Issues.-10. Appendix C. Documents.