Continuing my practice of striving to be an open researcher I decided I would try and summarise my PhD thesis in a sub-10-minute PowerPoint presentation. Ambitious? Definitely. Possible? Oh yes! Disseminating our research doesn’t have to be all about journal publications and the like, right?
I did have a challenge with a few of the subtitles that did not pick me up correctly for example, when I used the abbreviation ‘RQ’ for ‘Research Question’ and I was unable to locate an option to edit after the fact. Still, ‘done’ is better than ‘perfect’ in my book and I hope everyone will understand the message I want to communicate with my research and not hold this against me!
Another challenge was the sharing format, and when exporting to a .mp4 file type the subtitles/captions are not carried across. It was important to me that readers should be able to read the slides, listen to my voiceover and read the subtitles/captions. This might be a Mac problem but the same thing happened when I tried to embed a link to the PowerPoint recording on my University’s OneDrive. Later, as I happened to be on a call with my friend Connie in Austin, Texas, she suggested playing the PowerPoint recording and use the screen record feature on QuickTime to capture it all as a movie (.mov file). Yep, she was right as she so often is, thank you Connie.
So, here it is…just click to watch, listen or read – it’s up to you.
Until next time, Sandra
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Sandra Flynn 