The

Jazz

of PowerPoint

Secrets to Captivate
Your Audience
EWTG Conference
November 25, 2013
LaDonna Coy
MHR, CPS, CDLA
New media
communications
Workshops

Video Training

Day Camps
Proactive Living
Capacity building
Interactionars
3 MIN DASH

KDADS – KPN – KFP – Eagle Ridge – Free Spirit – L-RN

CARS – CSAP – CADCA – Collaborative Conversations

MIPH – ODMHSAS – Omega Point International – Oregon Research Institute

Paxis – PIRE – Safe & Caring Schools – Wisconsin Clearinghouse - WADSHS
LaDonna Coy
MHR, CPS, CDLA

KDADS – KPN – KFP – Eagle Ridge – Free Spirit – L-RN

CARS – CSAP – CADCA – Collaborative Conversations

MIPH – ODMHSAS – Omega Point International – Oregon Research Institute

Paxis – PIRE – Safe & Caring Schools – Wisconsin Clearinghouse - WADSHS
# Hashtag

The Workshop

#EWTG2013
Learning Objectives
• Lean into new media methods
• Introduce some brain rules
• Ways to make your
presentations social
• Offer a dozen simple secrets to
jazz up your presentations
Remember
when …
Jazz is …
% Fundamentals?
% Style?
Secrets to

12 JAZZING
up your

Presentations
1 GO ANALOG
1 GO ANALOG
1
Who’s your

AUDIENCE?
1

What’s your

PURPOSE?
2
Riff
On it!
3
Choose
your own

Font set

Bold
Basic
Accent
4
•
•
•
•
•
•

No Bullet List
No Bullet List
No Bullet List
No Bullet List
No Bullet List
No Bullet List
4

No Bullet Lists

Lists are

Consistent
and
Consistent is …

BORING!
4

No Bullet Lists

A Cup of
Cognitive
Load?
5 96 E
72 F P
Big
60 T O Z
&

54
Bold L P E D
40 P E C F D

36 E D F C Z P
32 F E L O P Z D
28 D E F P O T E C
24 L E F O D P C T
6
Vision
trumps

all other

Senses!
7

No
Clipart!
8

Animate with

purpose
9
10

The brain loves
Conversation
11
Make your content
easy to share
12

Call to
Action

ok, now
what?
13
Slides
are not
documents
13
Handouts
are not
slides
What is

one
secret

you’ll use?
What is

one
question

you still have?
Thank You
LaDonna Coy

coyenator@gmail.com

www.ladonnacoy.com
References & Resources

Video & Photos Citations:
• Life After Death by PowerPoint by Don McMillan
http://youtu.be/MjcO2ExtHso
• Link to Ross Mayfield social media map (cc)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ross/481518848/in/p
hotostream/
To Dive Deeper
• Brain Rules by John Medina www.brainrules.net
• Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds
• Slideology by Nancy Duarte
• The New Virtual Classroom, Ruth Clark & Ann
Kwinn
• The Backchannel: How Audiences Are Using
Twitter and Social Media and Changing
Presentations Forever by Cliff Atkinson
My blog/website www.ladonnacoy.com subscribe to
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Media Path ebook
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Texas Government Conference, San Marcos, Texas, November 25,
2013.

12 Secrets for Jazzing up Your Presentation

Editor's Notes

  • #8 First let’s think about jazz music. When it comes to JAZZ how much is style versus fundamentals? Hint: show the pie chartQuote about fundamentals of jazz .. 10% solid fundamentals – 90 style … I think the same is true of PowerPoint. We just need the new fundamentals.