Slides for teaching : the slim approach *

We describe the slim approach for making presentations using mind maps, which is particularly useful to assist the “slide maker” while thinking about and structuring her presentations. As presentations become larger, like for teaching purposes when creating and updating a course, we believe this approach to be particularly effective, and that common tools like PowerPoint fail to provide support to the user in managing and organizing the information she wants to lay out. We also present our effort in creating the sli-m, slide machine, a web application publicly available at www.sli-m.com, that materializes our idea allowing further enhancements like collaboration between users or integration into existing e-Learning portals.