Materials of cookware

Brian Christiansen · Guest

I actually gave this speech a few weeks ago, it is the one I asked about a
while back in preparing the "wordless" powerpoint presentation. I did not
quite accomplish that, but I did not have a presentation that was "bulleted
list" after "bulleted list."

At the time I did not have access to a powerpoint projector, but our TM
group does have an overhead projector. I actually prepared the slides using
openoffice.org presentations rather than powerpoint.

I uploded the presentation that I made to gmail, then publised it to the
following address:
http://docs.google.com/TeamPresent?revision=_latest&fs=true&docID=dcsgrxrv_11fq7fkdd5.
I did this instead of putting the presentation itself in my yahoo briefcase
and publically sharing the folder that I put it in because doing it this way
was the way I thought I could make it accessible to more people that might
be interested in looking at it.

I had to prepare it in portrait mode because of the way I presented it, and
gmail presentations offers only landscape mode as an option, so it changed
the way I formatted the presentation a little bit when I uploaded it, but
the basic way I did the presentaion is quite still evident.

On the chart the shows specific heats, for example, I used pictures to
indicate whether a material had a high, medium, or low specific heat, rather
than something like "5.6 x 10^-6 joules/kg". One of the comments I got was
that figuring out what my pictures meant and processing the speech at the
same time was a bit difficult and it would have been better to just have the
words "HIGH", "MEDIUM", or "LOW" on my charts.

The original article that I used is at:
http://www.cookingforengineers.com/article/120/Common-Materials-of-Cookware,
so that you can look at the original charts that I adapted for my
presentation if you are interested.

Brian Christiansen