On November 6, the KAIST Keynote Seminar was held by the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) at the Creative Learning Building (E11). Jongwon Kim, the instructor of the seminar introduced the Apple application Keynote, outlined some of its features, and demonstrated how it can be used for creating presentations.

Keynote is an Apple application that assists the user in creating presentations. It was developed in 2003, and it used to be a presentation tool designed solely for Apple’s late CEO, Steve Jobs. However, over the years along with presentation applications Numbers and Pages, Keynote was added to Apple’s iWork office suite and distributed to the public. The iWork office suite is similar to Microsoft’s Office for Mac and the open source LibreOffice project, but has simpler user interface and strong touchscreen support. Although Keynote is only available on Apple operating systems, the presentation files are compatible with other office suite products.

After a brief introduction of the application, Kim demonstrated its various features on the iPad. For example, he showed how one can create, edit and carry out presentations with Keynote. Also, he explained how pictures and data can be imported into one’s presentation by connecting to iCloud.

Kim is the section head of Macplus, which is a Korean partner of Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS). Adobe DPS is responsible for providing services such as content creation, distribution, and optimization for designers, advertising agencies, and businesses of various sizes. For example, magazines such as Maxim, Vouge, InStyle, and National Geographic use DPS to publish their issues. In addition, DPS can be used to create electronic books for tablet devices, such as iPads.