This lesson was designed to help students re-think their senior graduation project presentations. Many of the ideas and samples included were inspired by presentations by David Jakes and Ken Rodoff's presentations attended at NECC, and NCTE --------- ORIGINAL PRESENTATIONS/ INSPIRATION http://www.slideshare.net/000036hs http://www.jakesonline.org/tenstrategies.html and used / modified with permission for the purpose of giving students good models for how to turn their powerpoints into powerful presentations.

1. Don’t Kill us with your PowerPoint! Strategies for Improving SGP Presentations ADAPTED FROM PRESENTATIONS BY David Jakes & Ken Rodoff

2. It seemed that every time a student stood up to present he would read everything that was being projected. He added nothing more than what was on the slide. At times, he would pause, awkwardly so, as he waited for the next slide to appear. It made me feel uncomfortable. And the audience felt the same way. The clock would never move fast enough. We were trapped, and the presenter just kept reading. --Ken Rodoff

3. “Traditional” PowerPoint is your storyboard

4. Make it visual…

5. PowerPoint doesn’t kill presentations Bullet Points could!

6. Let’s talk about what’s happening in HERE? This is my Brain by killermonkeys

7. 10%

8. 35%

9. 65% From Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina | See Multimodal Learning

10. Use images to communicate, not decorate…

11. Adolescent Brain More gray matter than white matter Prefrontal cortex growing and developing Brain continues to grow and matures by the age of 25 Teenage brain has a well-developed accelerator but only a partly developed break New proliferation of neurons at 11 for girls and 12 for boys

12. not banned banned

13. Adolescent Brain More gray matter than white matter Prefrontal cortex growing and developing Brain continues to grow and matures by the age of 25 Teenage brain has a well-developed accelerator but only a partly developed break New proliferation of neurons at 11 for girls and 12 for boys

14. Adolescent Brain More gray matter than white matter Prefrontal Cortex Brain grows and matures by 25

15. Adolescent Brain Teenage brain has a well-developed accelerator but only a partly developed break New proliferation of neurons at 11 for girls and 12 for boys

16. “Communication is the transfer of emotion…” Seth Godin

17. Think about message & design

18. Survival in Lord of the Flies Piggy wants to start a fire Jack organizes hunters to get food Ralph and kids build shelters SAMPLE SLIDE SERIES FROM KEN RODOFF

19. survival takes skill SAMPLE SLIDE SERIES FROM KEN RODOFF

20. survival takes skill SAMPLE SLIDE SERIES FROM KEN RODOFF

21. teach a boy to fish… SAMPLE SLIDE SERIES FROM KEN RODOFF

22. Learn to sell…

23. How many homeless? Between 2.3 and 3.5 million are likely to experience being homeless in a year 1.35 million of them are children 200,000 veterans may be homeless on a given night. 50% African-American, 35% White, 12% Latino, 2% Native American, 1% Asian

25. 1.35 million of them are children

26. 200,000 veterans may be homeless on a given night.Image by wvs

29. 1.35 million of them are childrenImage used from Flickr user altuwa

31. 1.35 million of them are children

32. 200,000 veterans may be homeless on a given night.Image used from Flickr user Shrued

33. Colors have MEANING

38. This was a huge increase.

39. Because of Awareness EffortsSAMPLE SLIDE SERIES FROM KEN RODOFF

40. Efforts to save puppies In 2001, 527 Puppies were saved SAMPLE SLIDE SERIES FROM KEN RODOFF

41. 527 puppies saved SAMPLE SLIDE SERIES FROM KEN RODOFF

42. 527 saved SAMPLE SLIDE SERIES FROM KEN RODOFF

43. Learn how to find the visuals…

44. AND about intellectual property…

45. Use the Library: FIND IMAGES

46. Search Creative Commons

47. Flickr Storm

48. Flickr cc

49. Advanced Google Search

50. Stock photography25 Free sites

51. SAMPLE Slide Revisions….

52. SAMPLE SLIDE SERIES FROM DAVID JAKES

54. Hey Mom I’m Going to College… Can you Iron My Pants? Hey Mom! I’m Going to College… Can You Iron My Pants?

57. Textbooks are expensive

59. Textbooks are expensive

60. Roommate may be obnoxious

61. College isn’t about classes, grades and gossip…it’s about finding yourself