Here is a tip....
Use your visuals to engage your audience while presenting. Powerpoint or any other visual tool is not for YOU to depend on or to use as a notecard. It is for your audience! It is meant to complement the information or sales picth you are to deliver. Are you trying to entertain, educate, or lull your audience to sleep? We live in a media-based society and most of us are passive, unless we see or hear something that engages us and makes us want to actively participate. I am guessing 99.9% of us would react more positively and actively to a picture than a works cited page or long sentences on a screen (no matter how large) we can barely read because the font is too small. Why read when we can listen and look? Provide bulleted, essential information only and lots of attractive graphics to keep your fellow students interested and willng to listen. (Plus, you'll get a better grade!!!)
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Yes, I agree with the predecessor. The audience's attention is key to a successful broadcasting of information. As demonstrated in "Brainiac," (The Tv Show,) time itself is less noticeable to the human brain if under the the influence of activities, not drugs.
ReplyDeleteFact, humans can not multitask thoughts. If the brain is busy processing a task at hand, it has no energy or even the ability to focus on the length of time.
So with that,if the presentation is intriguing, time will seem to slip away. So be abstract, unique, or even crazy. Its better than being boring.
For the audience to be able to stay focused on the presentation of information, I belive that the information needs to be presented in sequential order. This way, all audiences will be able to understand the deep meanings to what the presentee (if i may) is trying to get into their heads. - Josh G
ReplyDeletePresentations went down today... they be maaadd knowledgeable. Power Point seemed to be the dominant medium. Still, Jovan and Henry make a killer trail scene. Bravisimo groups! until next time, take a step back and feel the sun.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Find the Halflings, the power point presentation was definitely the more popular medium. I would have liked to see more creative ideas and maybe more information put into the power points. The way most of the groups presented was kind of vague and almost 'reading off the paper' type of presentation. I would have liked to see a well prepared presentation at the sacrifice of depth honestly. - Josh G
ReplyDeleteWell this would make it four. Yup thats four, a pain fourth. But here it is, sitting on this black abyss of a web site. Oh, but comic books are awesome.
ReplyDeleteIntriguing, halfling. Your view on comic books that is. Personally I think that the black abyss of a website can be connected to anyone, place, or thing and ultimately can be concieved as 'nothing'. Yes the presentations about comic books were merely awesome. I must return to which i hail from, farewell web.
ReplyDeleteThis is all fantastic. All this talk about comics is almost inspiring me to write my own. I would only have to practice for the next 15 years. Nothing to big, I mean Stan Lee did it, why couldn't I?
ReplyDeletePrecisely.
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