It’s Time for a Presentation Wake Up Call

Ivan Taylor

Instructional Technology Director

San Gabriel Christian School

San Gabriel, CA

26 March 2007Ontario, CA

Brought to you by

Ivan Taylor

• 25 years in higher ed and secondary education

• last 15 focusing on technology training

• Professional Development workshops for educators

• Have presented at international conferences and specifically at TechEd each of the last 5 years

• Video and audio editor

Problem

• Presentations that are Boring

• Repetitive

• Information overload

Solution

• Wake them Up

• Tell a Story

• Use visual cues

• Less information per slide

• More slides

Use pictures and words

Concise bullets

Complimentary picturesand words

Limit continuous animations

No small text

No more than 4-7 bullets per slide

Pick a format and stay with it

Use sound sparingly

Don’t overuse clip art

Control how and whentext is displayed

Don’t use too many words

Reveal one bullet point at a time

Show all of the bullets at the beginning of the slide

Don’t read the slide to the audience

No more than 10 slides in 20 minutes

Title each slide

Entering Rant Mode

Don’t worry, it will end in a

moment

Exiting Rant Mode

Simplify

No, no, not a blank slide

Wake Up

Ivan Taylor

10/5

Presentation software

Tomorrow is Fiesta Night

TechEd

2007

Welcome to

Who’s to blame for information overload?

Disposition, optimal outlook. Oooh, I have to check my email

My Thanks toCliff Atkinson Richard E. Mayer

Dr. Lawrence LessigStanford University

Tom PetersTom Peters Co.

Know Your Audience

Tell A Story

…and most of the time use a script

The Greatest Piece of Paper I Have Ever Used

Tell a Story, Develop the Action

3 Steps

Contrast the next level

The fine detail comes next

Split things up

Add color

Break the barriers

Reverse colors

Add complimentary graphic

Tip #5

Take control, the software

is under your command

It’s drawing time

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Connection

Protect your connection• Pull the plug

• Protect with a router

Connection

Equipment

Protect your system• Security wrap

• Separate accounts

Connection

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• Tools

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Let’s try it• Insert New Slide, choose Blank• Click on the Rectangle icon

– Click and Drag a box on the right side– With it selected, click the Fill icon– Choose a color– If the line around the object is a different, click

on the Line Color icon and make changes• Click on the Text Box icon, click on the color box

– Type TechEd 2007• With it selected, click the Font color icon and make

changes• Hold the Shift key, select both objects and go to

Draw | Align and select Align Center and Middle

Strip away excess

Strip away the excess

• Create a Chart or double click on existing chart• Place cursor on an Axis Gridline, right click and

select Clear• Place cursor on Wall, right click and select Clear• Double click any area to bring up Format dialog

box and make necessary changes

• Double click a data series to bring up the Format Data Series dialog box

• Make changes, click OK• To select on bar/line, double click on series, pause

then click the one you want to change• Make changes, click OK

Here’s how to strip away the excess

Picking an Image or Graphic

Get the point?

Tell them where they are in a sequence

Many Bullets to Simple Menu

Show the sequence, these could be bullet points

Create a Menu Slide• Create or Insert an object• With the object selected, right click on it and select

Hyperlink• You are given 4 choices to link to

– Existing file or Web page• jump to a different file or a web site

– Place in document• jump to a slide in the current presentation

– Create a New Document• attaches to the presentation

– Email address

• Make changes, click OK

Before - Too much information

After - Less text

After – Less Is More

2 Animations on Object• Create or Insert object• Right click, select Custom Animation• Click the Add Effect button, Select Entrance, make

choice• Modify as necessary• Click on the Animation settings, then click the

object• Click the Add Effect button, select Exit, make

choice• Make sure the exit settings are immediately after

the entrance settings in the Custom box• Click Play button and adjust if necessary

Motion on a Path• Create or Insert object• Select one or more objects• Click on Add Effects button, Motion Paths, Draw

Custom Path and choose Freeform• Click on one of the selected objects.• From this point, every time you click your mouse,

you are creating a point on the path– If you want to draw straight lines hold down the Shift key

as you move your mouse

• When you reach your last point, double click and watch the animation

• If you applied this to more than one object, you will have to adjust the timing on each or they will all move at one time

Bonus

Change The Perspective

Changing the perspective of an object can add drama, interest and emphasis to the object

Insert object onto a slide

Right click and select Save as Picture, give it a name and select PNG as the File Type

Next, launch your graphic editing program i.e. GIMP, Photoshop, etc. and open the picture you saved above

Look for a Transform, Skew or Perspective command

Select one of the handles on the picture

Click and drag the top corner handle in and down and the bottom corner in and up

Adjust to desired angle and double click on the picture

Save the picture and flatten the image if asked to do so

Don’t worry if you receive a message about transparency

Next, go back to the Powerpoint slide and delete the object

Insert the new image onto the slide

Resize if necessary, you can’t change the perspecitve but you can adjust the size of the graphic

Change The Perspective

Resources & Downloads

thecreativeedge.org/download/teched

www.sociablemedia.com

www.indezine.com

www.presentersuniversity.com

www.presentationzen.com

Understand

• There are no Rules• Know your audience• Keep it Simple• There are no Rules• Tell a Story• Use powerful images

• …and there are NO RULES

It’s drawing time

Neglect Not the Gift that is

in You

—1 Timothy 4:14

It is never crowded along

the extra mile… Dr. Wayne

Dyer