Presentation Project

I feel that my presentation was concise, short and sweet.  I believe that I executed the presentation effectively, and got a very large amount of information into the video for the 2 minutes and 45 seconds that was recorded. 


Additionally, I grabbed the attention of the person watching the presentation by presenting how their own security could be at risk. The flow and sequence of content is appropriate and explained the context with concise explanations. I avoided clutter, and the slides were extremely readable. I spoke most of the information before it came up through animation on the slides.


Lastly,  I created the presentation using PowerPoint, modified the presentation to be appropriate for the business environment, and used a Web 2.0 Tool (Camtasia) to share the presentation online. All of the following are requirements on the rubric as well. The only thing that I believe I can improve on, is to not slur my words during the presentation and to remain a bit more calm. 


Upon reviewing Matt Goldman's presentation on why his company should invest in tablets for all their employees, I realized that we utilized much of the same concepts in each of our presentations. Surprisingly, our layouts were very similar, and we both used pictures accordingly. I believe that we both picked great topics. Reviewing his presentation allowed me to see where he did wrong, so that I could fix it in my own presentation and help him fix it in his.


Although this may not be needed, If I was to evaluate my performance for this project with the Scoring Rubric Provided, I would give myself the following scores in each of the following categories:

• Topic is appropriate for the business environment  (5/5)
• Storyboard is created using a completed template (5/5)
• Storyboard is representative of the presentation (5/5)
• Presentation i created using PowerPoint, KeyNote, or other presentation tool (10/10)
• At least 2 types of media are included in the presentation (5/5)
• All media is referred in the credits (10/10)
• No copyright Violation (10/10)
• Includes Elements of Effective Presentations (Avoid clutter, etc)  (15/15)
• Web 2.0 Tool is used to share presentation online.   (5/5)
• URL to presentation is posted to course discussion board.  (5/5)
• Self Critique uses Presentation Evaluation Rubric  (10/10)
• Peer Critique uses Presentation Evaluation Rubric (10/10)
• Peer Critique is posted to the discussion Board  (5/5)
• Post is created on Personal Blog (2/2)
• Post Includes working, clickable link to Web 2.0 Presentation (1/1)
• Blog post is tagged (1/1)
• Direct Blog Post in Submission

Possible Points: 100  
Total Points I believe I earned: (100/100)

Week 5: Clear on Presentation Design and Layout

Presentation Design and Layout

Make your presentations stand out. Keep your audience awake!

"Matt Asleep" by Jasmic

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasmic/253938958/

Creative Commons License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/deed.en

It's a great feeling to have your audience fall asleep on you!

Presenting information to your audience that you want to STICK is a very difficult concept if you don't know what NOT to do.

Some no-no's when it comes to presentation design and layout:

• Extremely large blocks of text that seem to never end
• Images from anywhere on the internet
• Boring Lists with 6-8 Bullets
• Clutter on your PowerPoint slides
• Bizarre, unprofessional , Gothic fonts 

Some things to focus on when creating a presentation:

• Images with copyright licenses (Creative Commons)
• Easy to read slides
• Simple yet harmonic backgrounds
• Sans Serif fonts
• Your voice is the BEST Audio!
• Simple Pictures or videos that will captivate your audience

     All in all, you need to keep your presentations simple. The more complicated and crowded that your slides become, the harder it will be for your audience to stay involved. Typing one word on a slide and describing its prominence in your own words can help you tremendously instead of posting 6 hard to read graphs and typing a paragraph about the topic. I've always found that using themes already created in PowerPoint can help spice up your presentations dramatically.

     This is extremely important in the business environment because you may have a great idea or topic that needs to be shown to your bosses. Presenting that idea in a PowerPoint with aspects from the "no-no" area of this blog may turn out to be a bad idea. Knowing how to keep your audience interested in your presentation relies directly on how you portray your information in your presentation. After all, who would remember anything you said after reading 10 slides full of text?

While researching this topic, a very interesting resource I used was:

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/10-slide-design-tips-for-producing-powerful-and-effective-presentations/6117178

This is a 10 tip webpage that explains numerous tips on how to keep your presentations, neat, gorgeous, and effective.

Thanks for reading! I'll see you next week! :)