I had an extremely uneventful afternoon as a receptionist, so I decided to take my time to observe Noah and Natalie's iMovie presentation. As with Deanna's notes, you couldn't help but notice the blank stares received from nearly every student in the room. With the exception of a select few girls, there was no loosening up of this tough crowd until after the first video. WHICH BY THE WAY ~ What a great choice to demonstrate the CRAP method of video analysis. (For those of you who dont know C.R.A.P. is
Contrast Repetition Alignment Proximity.) It was a commercial from several years ago by Volkswagen advertising for the stylish Beetle Convertible. I think the music and the easy to catch patterns in the video sucked the clients in enough for them to participate. After that the class flowed well and more and more kids began to participate.
This leads me to my point:
WHY IS THERE NOT A POWERPOINT FOR THESE PRESENTATIONS!? Is there not a base to help presenters organize their class? Writing on a whiteboard is all good and well, but it is sloppy and slow and puts kids to sleep. Just seems silly to me
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Tiffany and I are in an ongoing conversation about (and project to develop) new, fresh PowerPoints for presentations that need to be improved next fall. Not only that, but we're looking to revamp some of the older, tired presentations as well to make them more up to date for client and consultant needs.
It's nice to hear some feedback from all of you about these presentations, so thanks for posting it!
I've been doing some reading about presentation slides and styles this week, and have begun to think pretty critically about the use of PowerPoint. I think that a lot of people tend to overuse/abuse PowerPoint as a presenting tool. It certainly has a place as a useful visual aid for your audience, but do we want students reading slides of PPt. text while learning how to create digital video, or do we want them listening to us, workshopping, and playing along?
I'm thinking a snappy, visual PPt. might have a place with this presentation, but am even more excited about developing a workshop that has students using the software along with the presenter so that they walk away having personally interacted with the tool they came to learn about.
PowerPoints can make presentations look professional (when used properly!), but I don't think that having PowerPoint slides for our presentations will automatically make them "professional." I think we've got some other things to work on, too. I don't know about all of you, but I've sat through countless boring, sloppy, and dull PPt. presentations that have put me to sleep, too.
What do you all think? Is anyone interested in joining Tiffany and I as we revise our presentations for next term?
The powerpoint presentation does not necessarily have to be used to show to the students, as it could be used by the presenters to simply remind them of the main points to hit and help with the general flow.
I know that a well prepared leader should already have a general idea of what is going on. I was just thinking in the sense of grabbing the attention of the audience.
I completely agree with the belief that powerpoint is extremely overused and I have seen a very select few properly used.
I would love to be a part of developing these presentations!
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