As I mentioned in my forum post, after reading Garr Reynolds website I realized that I had been doing presentations all wrong. Here are the major tips that I took from his website:
1. Too much text is distracting
2. Images should be re-sized to fit the slide
3. High quality images should be used
4. Don't have too many distracting visuals ie. animations, bright colors, etc.
5. Let the slides accompany the presentation, don't let them be the actual presentation.
Overall I think that the point emphasized is that all to often presenters allow the power point to steal the show, when really they ARE the presentation. Presenters should use powerpoint as a guide and a resource.
I have never used Google to create a presentation before. I had previously used Power Point and Prezi. I fould that Google did not have as many options as Power point does. But after learning how to properly create slides, maybe this is a good thing. I think Power point has so many options that people often want to put so much "pizaz" into their presentations that it is very distracting. I found myself wanting to simply put a white boarder around my photos and Google did not allow me to do that. Here are the slides:
PRESENTING ONLINE
I had often wondered how an online course would go about doing presentations. After this week, I know how. There are a couple options: Screencastify, Google hangouts, and MoveNote. After checking out each option I chose Screencastify, it seemed the most user friendly. After doing a couple test shoots, here is the final product:
OVERALL
Before this week, I never realized that you could video while sharing the screen on your computer. I had only known of Skype for video calling and conferencing. The assignments this week showed me that there are many other options for presenting online. This week also allowed me to learn the correct way to create a presentation. Hope you all enjoy and use my Quick Tips!
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