October+8

October 8, 2008 Notes

Scott presented each participant with [|The Exceptional Presenter by Timothy J. Koegel]. Review of:
 * Ideas
 * Visuals
 * Delivery

What have we seen around us:
 * How stores and marketing entice our eyes
 * Challenge: The use of capitals in a presentation
 * "C" fashion to show products
 * Fonts consistent and clearly seen

This is an informal meeting of the minds for us to look at how we can improve our presentations.

We know what makes a good presentation -- looking at something different than bullet points. These are some of the examples we talked about in class:

[|The Lessig Method] ([|see an example]; see also the [|Takahashi Method])
 * Throw a word or symbol out there to engage
 * Take the oldest person in the audience, and divide their age by two -- that is the size of the font you should use for your presentation

[|Presentation Zen] [simple is better] ([|see an example]) [|Garr Reynolds] (Sample Presentations)
 * Best book you can buy with respect to creative design
 * Turning this into that -- the bullet slide to the slide of harks

What are we doing?
 * Using the PowerPoint to organize what to say
 * You do not have to pay attention if there are more details within a PowerPoint
 * Making meaning from what someone is saying
 * Utilizing the "banking" form of education to do our presentations

Challenges:
 * The idea we struggle with -- it is what students are use to receiving - so how do we change?
 * If they can download the PowerPoint -- you do not even need to speak -- you want to be the focus -- the presentation is just enough to be a thought-sparker

Opportunities
 * Using black on white is the most effective color contrast
 * Having something change on the presentation every so often -- even the smallest change the audience will tune into them

Exercise:
 * Create a slide with a large picture, and some text
 * Where you can get some images[|: Flickr Creative Commons]
 * [|flickrCC]
 * [|Simple CC Flickr Search]
 * [|Google Image Search] (show Extra Large or Large images)

Free fonts
 * [|1001 Free Fonts]