Fostering Friendships - Enhancing Social Bonds in the Classroom
Fpp 2013
1. Delivering Better Presentations:
Making Technology your Friend
Michael E. Morrison Tom Downes Brooke
Winckelmann
Online Learning Services
Syracuse University
2. Overview
• Presentations: why are they important
• Be a better presenter
• New technologies for presenting - Prezi
• Freeing yourself from the podium - Doceri
• Share your presentations - Slideshare
• Future of presentations - new tools and
approaches
12. PowerPoint
• Released in 1987 for Macintosh
• Windows 3.0 version in 1990
• Updates have removed linear approach and
added clipboard to easily add non-textual
elements
• 2012 - Microsoft claims 95% of presentation
market
15. Serious Nature - “PowerPoint
Hell”
• PowerPoint overload in business and military
• Real cost in dollars and cents
• Damage to Space Shuttle Columbia -
Edmund Tufte analysis
• PowerPoint presentation by Boeing
oversimplified the damage and led to false
assurance that the damage was minimal
21. Controlling your Presentation
- Keyboard Shortcuts
B - black screenB - black screen
W - White ScreenW - White Screen
Enter, Space Bar, Right arrow - nextEnter, Space Bar, Right arrow - next
slideslide
Left arrow, Back space - previous slideLeft arrow, Back space - previous slide
22. New Technologies for Presenting
Prezi
(http://www.prezi.com)
(http://www.prezi.com)
(http://www.prezi.com)
(http://www.prezi.com)
23. Freeing Yourself from the Podium
Doceri
(http://www.doceri.com)
(http://www.doceri.com)
(http://www.doceri.com)
(http://www.doceri.com)
26. Slideshare
• Upload and convert your presentation
• Tag your presentation
• Add audio and transcription
• Set your sharing options
• Embed your presentation in Blackboard or
other web site
27. Other Tools and Techniques
• Slideshark, SlideKlowd, Zoho Show,
SlideStaxx, HelloSlide, Animoto,
VoiceThread
• Combine presentation with audience
feedback - response systems (clickers,
PollEverywhere)
• Student created presentations - shared with
the class