The document provides tips for creating effective presentations. It recommends preparing an outline to stay organized, using bright colors and images to engage learners visually, including video study guides to keep students focused when watching videos, explaining online courses before having students take them, and limiting each slide to one or two main ideas so as not to overwhelm the audience. The references include websites for journalism courses and a book about creating impressive presentations.

1. Powerful Presentations By Raven von Wood

2. Effective Opening: According to “Bringing Down the House: Creating Sensational Knock-Your-Socks Off Presentations”, “Making a good impression at the beginning of your presentation requires you to be well prepared, confident & clear.” Prior to presenting my lessons, I would make sure I have an outline prepared. I would know what points I wanted to get across and have a clear idea of what my goal is.

3. Visual Effects: I would use visual effects in my presentations to draw in my learners. I find bright colors to be really engaging, so I would use bright colors (as long as they weren’t over the top). I would also use photographs, as many grasp concepts through the usage of images.

4. Media: I would implement videos into my teaching. Our class text book Teaching and Learning with Technology states, “To create a more active video viewing experience, it is a good idea to provide a video study guide.” I would most definitely provide a video study guide, as I wouldn’t want my students disengaged from the learning material.

5. Usage of websites: I really like the website www.newsu.org. It provides hundreds of courses on journalism (mostly free) for access. If I were to be a journalism instructor, I would firstly explain what would be taught in the News U course and then have my students go to the computer lab to take the class. After the class, we would discuss what we learned about that journalistic lesson.

6. Bit by Bit: According to “Bringing Down the House: Creating Sensational Knock-Your-Socks Off Presentations”, “Essentially there should be no more than one or two ideas per slide.” I completely agree. Too much information at once can be overwhelming; in using Power Point presentations, I’d be sure to limit the ideas 1-3 per slide.

7. References http://www.newsu.org/ Jukes, Ian. “Bringing Down the House: Creating Sensational Knock-Your-Socks Off Presentations”. Info Savvy.