You know this is ironic, right?

First, in small groups, compare slides and choose a winner–the representative who gets to show his/her 4 slides to the full groups for a workshop critique.  Some questions to consider:

• Is the initial impact powerful without being overly cluttered or garish?
• What do the images convey on a emotional/visceral level?
• Are the choices for font, color, and text flow sound and effective?

Other Gar Reynolds advice is here.

Next, we’ll talk a bit about the write-up.  I’m looking for about a page of reflection that explains your thinking on the following questions:

1. Kairos: How have you adapted your presentation to be effective for this group at this time in this situation?
2. What sources have you chosen? How do you know they are both reliable and persuasive?
3. What images have you chosen? Give me source info and a bit of your thinking on why you used them?
4. What data will you reference? Why is it reliable and how will you present it?

Finally, let’s move our eyes back and forth and design a slide. I’ll give you time to work in class and I’ll try and help individual students.

HW: First presentations on Tue, November 17th

First, I’ll give a presentation about presentations. How’d I do?

Next, I’ll ask you to think about/write about your audience.

1. What does your audience already think about your subject?
2. What’s important to them?
3. What do you want them to do?
4. How might they resist?

Then, we plan…offline…on stickies or big paper.  Turn off your computer.

Next, we’ll talk to one buddy and get some insight.

Finally, lids up and we’ll make some presos.

Resources:

• Presentation Zen rules of thumb
• Presentation Zen: Where to find quotes and images
• slide:ology–The Duarte group speaks.
• Getty Images: Free register to get rid of watermarks
• Use your library card to search AP Images

HW:  A full (if rough) draft is due Nov 19th, Nov 21st you should be ready to present.