Flash - Faith in the Facts Faith in the Facts is a visual tool for the talk, "Faith in the Facts: Local Researchers' Perspectives on Science Communication in the Philippines", by Ms. Inez Ponce de Leon and Dr. Mark Tucker. This talk was presented at the 30th Annual Meeting and Symposium of the Philippine American Academy of Science and Engineering (PAASE) at the University of Wisconsin, at Madison, on May 29th, 2010. The presentation uses a custom Flash-XML application that allows for rapid slide development using a graphics and a text editor. Graphics assets were prepared using The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).
Poster - That Infernal Bureaucracy! "That Infernal Bureaucracy! Using Classical Literature to Teach Theories in Sociology (And Vice Versa)" is a four feet by three feet poster (48x36 inches). It contains part of a paper of the same title, written by Ms. Inez Ponce de Leon. This poster was presented at the 2nd Annual Graduate Students Educational Research Symposium (AGSERS), held March 5, 2008 at the Purdue Memorial Union, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. The background graphic was created in Inkscape. The resulting SVG was then imported into Scribus, where the composition was made. The final composition was exported to PDF for large-format printing. Additional processing on the outsourced images were done in The GIMP.
Flash - A World of Discovery, A Web of Knowledge This is a visual tool that was used to present the paper, "A World of Discovery, A Web of Knowledge: A Model for Mass Communication of Science in the Philippines" by Ms. Inez Ponce de Leon. The presentation uses a custom-made Flash and XML application that allows for rapid slide creation in any graphics editing programme like The GIMP or Adobe Photoshop.
ODP - Hell Is A Bureaucracy An 8-slide Open Document Presentation (ODP) composed for Ms. Inez Ponce de Leon. The complete title is "Hell Is A Bureaucracy, and Bureaucracy is Hell: A Weberian Reading of Dante's Divine Comedy". It was used as a visual tool to present a paper, of the same title, which was part of the requirements for a graduate class in The Development of Sociological Theory (SOC 600) at Purdue University. The presentation was composed in Open Office Impress and exported to Microsoft PowerPoint format.