Sharing Presentations By: Dani Davis June 6 th, 2004

Presentation Success “The audience has come away from this with information that was in- line with the original point of the presentation?"

Presentation Do’s  State your purpose  Do Make your point  Use your slides to outline your main points  Emphasize your main point by putting it on a slide by itself.  Use graphics and animation to “highlight” Only important Points.

Presentation Do’s Cont.  Pass out handouts at the end  Chop up long statements into short bulleted points

Presentation Don’ts  Don’t Give too much information  Don’t use “generic” clip art  Don’t Use too many “Bells and Whistles”  Don’t overuse Animation

Hardware Needs  Hardware  Computers  Capable of supporting chosen presentation software  Proper data connections  Data Project to display information  Laptop computers  Cables  Drivers

Software Needs  Presentation Software  Apple – Keynote  Imagine Engine  PowerPoint  97/98  2000/2001  XP  2003

Time and Money  Time  Copying  Designing  Money  Color Copies  Transparencies  Making your own copies

Preview Your Slideshow  Get inside the student’s mind  View show in presentation room  Check lighting  Seating arrangement

Color and Animation  Color  Too many are distracting  Follow a consistent scheme  Animation  Too much is distracting  Use sparingly

Image Use  Use Images  To illustrate concepts  Make the image complement the text  Do not Use Images  Too often  That do not pertain to the subject matter  Just to be cute

Technical Problems  In case of emergency  Have a hardcopy of your presentation  Prepare a backup plan  Know whom to call for assistance

Web-Based Presentations  Student Computer Access  Home  School  Images  Small for fast access from home

Consider the Visually Impaired  Individuals who are Visually impaired need  Large print  High contrasting colors  Few visual distractions  Plain background

Copyright Infringement  When publishing to the web, be sure not to infringe upon any copyright laws  For a complete discussion of current copyright laws please visit:

Resources  Apple – Keynote  Copyright © Educational Partnerships and Learning Technologies ml ml  Foster M. (2004), Multimedia Design Controversies. tm tm

Resources Continued  Goldstein M. (2004), To Avoid the Perils of PowerPoint, Take a Kid’s-Eye View. cle_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=  Straften S. (2004), Giving Effective PowerPoint Presentations. owerptpres.htm owerptpres.htm  United States Government Copyright Laws