Computer Skills and Applications 8th Grade Presentation Basics Computer Skills and Applications 8th Grade 6.01 Presentation Purpose

Presentation Purpose TLW understand the purpose and procedures for developing multimedia presentations with at least 90% accuracy by planning an appropriate presentation. 6.01 Presentation Purpose

What is presentation software? Presentation software is a program used to create slide shows or multimedia presentations. Multimedia means presenting data in more than one medium, such as combining text, graphics, animation, video and sound. p1 6.01 Presentation Purpose

To Use or Not to Use? View the next five slides as an example of when a multimedia presentation is not the best method for delivering a message. What if President Lincoln had used PowerPoint to deliver the Gettysburg Address? The next 5 slides are presented by permission of Peter Norvig. For additional information, visit his website http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/making.html 6.01 Presentation Purpose

Gettysburg Cemetery Dedication Abraham Lincoln 6.01 Presentation Purpose

Agenda Met on battlefield (great) Dedicate portion of field - fitting! Unfinished work (great tasks) 6.01 Presentation Purpose

Not on Agenda! Dedicate Consecrate Hallow (in narrow sense) Add or detract Note or remember what we say 6.01 Presentation Purpose

Review of Key Objectives & Critical Success Factors What makes nation unique Conceived in Liberty Men are equal Shared vision New birth of freedom Gov’t of/for/by the people 6.01 Presentation Purpose

Organizational Overview Ask students—What does this chart mean? What does it represent? 6.01 Presentation Purpose

Summary New nation Civil war Dedicate field Dedicated to unfinished work New birth of freedom Government not perish 6.01 Presentation Purpose

Now listen to the audio version Which method is better? Why? The Gettysburg Address Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. -- Abraham Lincoln 6.01 Presentation Purpose

Characteristics of Inappropriate Content Content is trivial or without a clear purpose Content loses its meaning when translated Content should be preserved in its original form p2 6.01 Presentation Purpose

Examples? As a class, brainstorm other examples of when presentation software is an inappropriate method of information distribution and communication 6.01 Presentation Purpose

To Use or Not to Use You guessed it! The next presentation will provide an example of when presentation software is appropriate as a means of communication. 6.01 Presentation Purpose

Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest Shaping the Pacific Northwest 6.01 Presentation Purpose

The Nisqually Earthquake February 28, 2001 6.8 magnitude Source: http://nsmp.wr.usgs.gov/data_sets/20010228_1/ images/Seattle/PicS-19.jpg Source: http://nsmp.wr.usgs.gov/data_sets/20010228_1/images/olympia/PicO-31.jpg 6.01 Understand business uses of presentation software and methods of distribution. 6.01 Presentation Purpose

Mount St. Helens Eruption May 18, 1980 Began with small earthquakes in March 5.1 earthquake in May before major eruption 6.01 Understand business uses of presentation software and methods of distribution. Sources: http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Imgs/Jpg/MSH/SlideSet/49.jpg http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Imgs/Jpg/MSH/SlideSet/19.jpg 6.01 Presentation Purpose

Characteristics of Appropriate Content Educational To train, present information, emphasize key points, or explain procedures Persuasive To advertize or provoke action Narrative To broadcast messages, tell a story, or entertain p3 6.01 Presentation Purpose

Examples? As a class, brainstorm other examples of when presentation software is an inappropriate method of information distribution and communication 6.01 Presentation Purpose

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions… Once the decision has been made to use presentation software, the next step is to determine the best method of delivery 6.01 Presentation Purpose