What’s the single most important consideration in working to ensure a successful technology-enabled presentation? Have you ever been excitedly launching into a technology empowered lecture you spent hours developing only to run head first into something that didn’t work … leaving you floundering, lost in a sea of broken “teaching with technology” dreams? You had no reason expect that your DVD wouldn’t play, or your video could hardly be heard. Why doesn’t this computer open your file? Why can’t you get to the Internet site you have to share? Well, there’s one consistent failure that is often behind these issues – assuming it would work without trying it first

1. What’s the single most important
consideration in working to ensure a
successful technology-enabled presentation?

2. Has this happened to you?

Have you ever been excitedly launching
into a technology empowered lecture
you spent hours developing only to run
head first into something that didn’t work
… leaving you floundering, lost in a sea
of broken “teaching with technology”
dreams?

3. You had no reason
expect that your DVD
wouldn’t play, or your
video could hardly be
heard.
Why doesn’t this
computer open your
file?
Why can’t you get to
the Internet site you
have to share?
Why Me?
Why Now?

4. There’s one consistent
failure that is often behind
these issues …

5. “ … the one most consistent
preventable problem that we
encounter with technology
failing is that lecturers or
presenters don’t walk through
their presentation, in the room
they will be using,
beforehand.”

7. There are so many points of failure in
today’s complex technology systems
…
Do you need an
Internet connection?
 What if it’s slow?
 Does your
presentation require
sound?

What video format is
your video in?
 Does the computer
you’re using have
software to support
the file format your
presentation
requires?


10. Positioned for Success!
1. Go the room you will be teaching or
presenting in and walk through your
presentation.
Do this several days (even better, a
week) before you need to do it live, so
that if you do discover issues, there is
time to work through them with
technical support.

11. Positioned for Success!
2. If there is a problem that
needs to be addressed and you
are informed that it has been, do
NOT just assume that you are
good to go – walk though it and
make sure.

12. Positioned for Success!
3. Ideally, double check the
day before or that morning, to
make sure nothing has
changed.

13. TEST TEST TEST!
 Whatever
it
is you wish
to do, walk
through it
BEFORE its
time to do it
live.
 Too
often people
assume things are going
to work, and discover
too late that the
computer and
equipment in the room
isn’t configured as
assumed, or something
has changed …

14. All the preparation in the world
still won’t guarantee last minute
issues – a computer crash, a
fried projector bulb, an Internet
crash. Be sure to …

15.  Come
on out to
EmergingEdTech.com and read
the full post to learn about
additional preventive measure
you can take to help ensure
success!
http://www.emergingedtech.com/2014/02/the-mostimportant-thing-to-know-to-prevent-technologyproblems-during-a-lecture-presentation/