PowerPoint Presentations: An Overview

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PowerPoint PresentationsAn Overview

• Goals
• Understand the basic components of a GOOD
  PowerPoint presentation
• Develop your communication objective
• Brainstorm the components of your presentation

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The PowerPoint Metaphor

• Slideshow
• Large audience
• Primarily visual
• The big picture

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Components of a PowerPoint Slideshow

• Communication objective
• Unifying theme
• Text, graphics, animation, sound
• Audience participation

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Communication Objective

• WIIFM?
• AWBAT
• Inform
• Persuade
• Elicit dialogue

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Unifying Theme

• Color
• Key graphics
• Animation and/or sound
• Templates
• Custom

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Text, graphics, animation, and sound

• Purposeful
• Readable/seeable/hearable
• Necessary

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Audience Participation

• Speak
• Write
• Read
• Listen

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Linear Slideshow

• End goal
• Logical progression
• Build-up

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Non-Linear Slideshow

• Discussion-basedcould go anywhere
• Hyperlinks to other slides or files
• Some non-linear abilities in all slideshows

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Coltan and the Congo

• A Hotspots!
• Presentation

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About this big
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Coltan (columbium tantalite)

• Used in
• Light-bulb filaments
• Cell phones
• Computers
• Game consoles
• (such as Playstations)

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Sourcehttp//www.virunga.org/jbin/story/4613
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Civil War since 1944
• 2,345,410 sq km (about one-fourth the size of the
  US)
• 77 forests and woodlands
• Source CIA World Factbook 2001

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Civil War

• government revenue

• Foreign debt

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Source Wildlife Conservation Society http//www.
eces.org/articles/static/9903348006466.shtml
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there is no point in the West
pointing a finger at the slaughter
"We have got to stop buying this stuff,
and end the flow of money..."
Greg Cummings, Executive Director of the Dian
Fossey Gorilla Fund
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What You Can Do

• Write to the companies who make the products you
  useask them to make sure that their coltan
  doesnt come from mines in the protected National
  Parks in the DROC
• Money TALKS!

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Designing your Slideshow

• State your communication objective
• List your components
• Outline your narrative
• Create your speaker notes
• Create your slides
• Test-drive your slideshow
• Create audience materials