PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Sit Down and Brainstorm

Saturday, November 13, 2004, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:30 am

Nearly 50 landscape contractors were on hand at 8:30 a.m. Thursday for the Communicating with Confidence seminar sponsored by Professional Grounds Management Society (PGMS), Baltimore, Md. The featured speaker was Melody Templeton, president of Templeton Consulting, Kimberton, Pa. Attendees came to gain skills they could apply while giving sales presentations, training programs, speeches at trade shows, and for more confidence when speaking in general.

According to Templeton, the first thing most people do when they hear they have a presentation to give is to try to get out of doing it. That is followed by panic before the presenter actually starts to prepare.

The first action a person should take after finding out he must give a presentation is to sit down and brainstorm for 15 minutes and take notes, Templeton says.

The thing is, your brain continues to work on it even though you don’t realize it, she says.

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Tagged as: Brainstorming, Melody Templeton, Opinion, Presentation Skills

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When Good Technology Means Bad Teaching

Tuesday, November 9, 2004, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:45 am

It wasn’t that the material was dense and challenging. It was because her professor “would write on the PowerPoint slides complete sentences, which she would then read,” explains Ms. Lesht, who is majoring in biology and minoring in religious studies. “It didn’t really add anything to the lecture. It just made everything more complicated and convoluted.” “I call it ‘PowerPoint abuse,'” she says. “It’s pretty widespread.”

Increasingly, professors are placing their PowerPoint slides on the Web before or after class — a feature that students find convenient and helpful. But while students often ask for this service, it can also make them less likely to attend classes.

Jeffrey R Young discusses more on the Chronicle site.

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Tagged as: Death by PowerPoint, Opinion, PowerPoint

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Easing the Communications Need

Tuesday, November 9, 2004, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:45 am

Today, there are people who do their word processing in PowerPoint. They learn PowerPoint, and that’s where they want to stay.

That’s one of the interesting remarks from Ray Ozzie, founder and CEO of Groove Networks Inc., as he continues his conversation with Computerworld, focusing on how collaboration software meets the needs of various types of customers.

Cool PowerPoint Animations Tutorial

Monday, November 8, 2004, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 8:41 am

This tutorial is more of a demonstration of what cool custom animation effects can be achieved just by using the standard PowerPoint 2002/XP or 2003 wipes. PowerPoint MVP TAJ Simmons has created this presentation which you can download free from his site. Thank you, TAJ.

Be amazed as you travel through the A to Z of PowerPointing.

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Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint, TAJ Simmons

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Microsoft Office: 100 Tips and Tricks – Part 2

Thursday, November 4, 2004, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:45 am

Most of us use Microsoft Office, but do we know how to make the most of it? The folks at VNUnet reveal 100 top tips for mastering this suite. Part 2 looks at PowerPoint and Outlook tips.