Death By A Thousand Bullets

Death by a Thousand Bullets

Or

Killing Me Softly with PowerPoint

Frank Sobierajski

NYSCATE

Rochester, NY

November 25, 2008

Power (noun) –the ability or capacity to perform or act

effectively

Point (noun) -a significant, outstanding, or effective

idea, argument, or suggestion

Presentation (noun)-a descriptive or persuasive account

Power (noun) –the ability or capacity to perform or act

effectively

Point (noun) -a significant, outstanding, or effective

idea, argument, or suggestion

Presentation (noun)-a descriptive or persuasive account

Power Point Presentation -

The ability to perform effectively on a significant idea with a persuasive descriptive account

Three things…

• Don’t you really hate it when presenters put up every word that they are going to say and then read it to you like you aren’t capable of reading it yourself. Although this makes it easy for the presenter so he or she doesn’t have memorize their presentation. It tends to put the audience to sleep before the end

• Then• there • are • the• presenters• who • place • lots• of • bullets

• on• each• page • obscuring• whatever• main• points • they• might • have

• to• share• causing• the• audience• to • write • it • all• down.

And of course the tiny print lots of words slides…

The picture above is hyperlinked to a video on teachertube.com

PowerPoint's don’t kill

presentations

bullets do.

NYSED

Free Culture

http://w2.eff.org/IP/freeculture/free.html

human brain &

PowerPoint

30% visual

8% tactile

3% auditory

Make it visual

– Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

– Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

– But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

– Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

– Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

– But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Gettysburg Address Tribute

by Ken Burns

a youtube video

PowerPoint presentations should

Why use all words?

When pictures R more stimulating

Use quality images

Teach students how to find quality images

Learn about Creative Commons cc

http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html

Copyright vs.

Creative Commons

flickr storm

http://creativecommons.org/about/

http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/

Power Points should be dynamic!

Google Earth Gallery

Google Earth

Gapminder

courtesy ted.com

http://www.gapminder.org/

http://www.gapminder.org/

Hyperlink everything!

Spreadsheet

All the hyperlinks on this page are linked to documents on my computer.

Presentations are performances

Dick Clarence Hart

Colors convey meaning and emotion

Photo by jahdakine - trimwork


trustworthy

dependable

committed


tranquil

peaceful

refreshing


stimulant

exciting

energy


enlightenmentoptimism

happiness


mystic

royal


fun

flamboyant

energy

warmth

Presentations are about people passionately

selling a message.

FontsThe quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.

The TheThe

PowerPoint secrets

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Photo adapted from photo by Jill Greenseth

PowerPoint secrets

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PowerPoint secrets

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PowerPoint secrets

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Share

Slideshare

Google docs

Slide Rocket

Photo by Thomas Hawk

http://www.slideshare.net/

https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=writely&passive=true&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2F&ltmpl=WR_tmp_2_lfty&nui=1&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-bk&utm_medium=ha&utm_term=google%20docs

http://www.sliderocket.com/

More pet peeves…

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/07/david-pogues-gadget-list-of-2008/

Pogue’s Post





The end

And I said:

No no no no, I can’t watch it no more

I’m sorry I think it’s a bore

No thank you please,

it’s just PowerPoint sleaze

And it makes me want to find the door

The Better PowerPoint

•Six and six rule•Bullets are just an outline•High contrast between background and fonts

•Fonts minimum 24 pts•Pictures relevant to topic

Storytelling –

the ancient art of conveying events in words, images, and sounds often by improvisation or embellishment

Education

Death By A Thousand Bullets