Lesson 14: Office III - Presentations

From lesson 13:

1)  You should have completed populating your Google Docs with a good number of files. (Remember, Office 2007 files [.docx, etc] *must* be saved as 97-2003 files [.doc, etc] in order for Google Docs to be able to use them.) 

2)  If you've not presented or talked about the holiday prep, you will be doing so now.  Take notes during these presentations of what you think are the good and bad points, of what you can learn from each and of what positive criticisms you can make of each. 

4)  Completing the lesson 13 prep required you to make notes in Google Notebook. There'll be some discussion of how useful you have found this.  This brings us on to discuss Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic and what lessons you took away from this.

PowerPoint can be problematic. Watch Don Mcillan's How NOt to Use PowerPoint: what are the problems he lists?

Discuss and appraise the presentations your set has made in the light of what you've now seen and understood about presentations.

There's a special kind of presentation known as

Pecha Kucha:

The Pecha Kucha method of presentation design and delivery is very simple. You must use 20 slides, each shown for 20 seconds, as you tell your story. That's 6 minutes and 40 seconds. Slides advance automatically and when you're done you're done. That's it. Sit down. The objective of these simple but tight restraints is to keep the presentations brief and focused and to give more people a chance to present in a single night. Presentation Zen

Create your own mini Pecha Kucha on a topic that's important to you, using the presentation software in Google Docs — 5–10 slides. Create this online.

Prep: i) Complete your presentation and share it with your teacher. ii) Explore SlideShare — another way of sharing presentations online.

A modern "revision":

More here.