Presentation Tools

Artifact 1 (Challenge 1): Design your presentation. (link to outline)

Artifact 2 (Challenge 2): Develop your presentation. (link to presentation; link to screencast of presentation).

Artifact 3 (Challenge 3): Adapt your presentation with animations. (link to screencast of presentation)

Artifact 4 (Challenge 4): Add resources (infographics) to your presentation. (link to infographic)

Software used: PowerPoint, Camtasia, Animaker, & Canva.

Reflection:

In the Presentation Tools badge, there were four challenges: design, develop, adapt, and supplement a presentation. I designed a 6-minute PowerPoint presentation based on a longer workshop module I created during EDCI 572. The workshop was teaching new yoga teachers how to design a yoga class from scratch using a particular method I developed which I call the Class Blocking Methodology. Because I had already created a much longer version of the PowerPoint presentation for the full workshop, I had to pick a single section within it and pare it back from there in order to meet the 3-6 minute timeframe for the Presentation Tools challenges. I drafted an outline on a Word document for challenge 1, and for challenge 2, I revised my PowerPoint presentation to fit the challenge 2 expectations. For challenge 2, I used Camtasia to do a screencast of my delivery of the presentation, which included active learning elements in it.  I later used Animaker to re-design the Intro and Outro slides in order to make the presentation (in its digital form) a little more engaging for challenge 3. For the fourth and final challenge, I created a job aid on Canva, which was a single-page view of the primary steps covered in the presentation.

All of the artifacts for this challenge represent a typical progression of steps through analysis, design, development, and implementation. Each of these artifacts demonstrate my mastery of the skills necessary to analyze, design, develop, implement, adapt, and present material not only in a typical presentation format, but with adjustments that showcase my ability to use additional software (Animaker and Canva) to spruce up the material being presented.  This competency is important because instructional designers must keep in mind not only WHAT they are creating for learners by HOW the material is to be delivered. This is an important skill for all ID work.

I have a substantial amount of experience designing and developing instructional material using PowerPoint and screencasting software because I designed 50 videos for a local community college using exactly that method. Through this series of challenges for the Presentation Tools badge, I have improved my abilities because I have expanded to using software like Animaker to make the PowerPoint come to life. Because Articulate 360 is used widely in the industry, and it uses PowerPoint slides as its foundation, I know that continued mastery of PowerPoint is important and necessary. These four challenges show that I have met the competencies necessary to prove my existing abilities and my adaptabilities to using software applications that improve presentations

I learned a lot through these four challenges. I chose to do this Presentation Tools Technology Badge early on in the program because I have a lot of experience designing PowerPoints, as I mentioned above; that will only continue growing in the years to come through the deepening and widening of my ID work. Because of this set of challenges, I will continue exploring animation software because one thing I noticed was that it cut some of the time off of the basic screencast version of the presentation when I used the animations to replace two of the slides. This is a good sign because viewers get bored easily, and the more quickly and succinctly something can be communicated, the better!