PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Using Maps in PowerPoint

Maps make excellent visuals and can add so much relevance to presentations that speak about anything to do with geography. You may want to show the location of company offices, franchisees or service centers.

Read more here.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Clip Media, Maps, PowerPoint

Interactive PowerPoint with Tablet PCs

Many professors use PowerPoint presentations as part of their lectures. As everybody knows, PowerPoint can be dull. If you add in a Tablet PC, it can be more interactive. You already have the PowerPoint up on a screen. But instead of static slides, you can write notes on top of the presentation.

Beth Simon discusses more on the SignOnSanDiego site.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint, Tablet PC

AV Professionals, Your Key to Peace of Mind

Have you been invited to speak at a conference, and then discovered that the AV crew was not as capable as you may have expected them to be?

Well-known speaker Jim Endicott recently said:

This is always a moment of truth for me. If you were at one of the big conference centers, these types of requests may prompt a call to the convention support supervisor who calls the AV support manager who in turn dispatches the AV professional who then tells you that he doesn’t do power cords. There’s another union that handles that stuff, all before disappearing into the crowd 5-minutes before your set-up is complete. No such challenge here. Todd was a real pro.

Jim Endicott tells more on his site.

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Tagged as: AV, Jim Endicott

Sit Down and Brainstorm

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.

Read more on the Lawn & Landscape magazine site

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

When Good Technology Means Bad Teaching

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.

Filed Under: Thoughts
Tagged as: Death by PowerPoint, Opinion, PowerPoint