This Guide will help you make an effective PowerPoint presentation quickly and easily. You'll learn:
The one sentence that will make your presentation memorable
Three questions to answer to create rapport with your audience
The key factors in keeping your audience engaged
The five PowerPoint slide formats that will enhance your presentation.
On the surface, Poll Everywhere is a simple text message voting application that works well for live audiences. People vote by sending text messages (or using Twitter) to options displayed on-screen. The poll that is embedded within the presentation or web page will update in real time. Advanced uses include texting comments to a presentation, texting questions to a presenter, web voting, and SMS interactivity in print, radio, and TV.
Prezi started in a very organic way; Adam and Peter - an internationally recognized emerging designer and a highly skilled computer scientist - have been lecturing extensively. Due to the limitations of slide presentations they developed their own method by using scripted maps, to hold these lectures. Over time (last 4 years) their methods matured, got refined.
"Digital media is increasingly present in kids' formal and informal educational settings, becoming as common as pencils and notebooks were to their parents. Yet in many American classrooms and homes, these high-tech tools are severely limited or forbidden. Teachers and parents wonder: What are students doing with these technologies?"
Neurologist and teacher Judy Willis will be presenting a 4-part series on how young brains develop neurologically; she'll also offer some research-based classroom strategies to teach critical thinking and other 21st century skills.