This quoted material comes from a link in Carmine Gallo's article "5 Ways to Ruin your Presentation". John Baldoni wrote it as a tip for mastering professional speaking. I feel in a way that this a great final reflecting point for me in this course. What I have learned in this course is now part of who I am and how I will present to my audience.

I assume some of this great help for great presentations are geared for big time presenters and probably not teachers. Yet, it does make me wonder if rehearsing is the day's lesson (powerpoint presentation) is even a practice of our very best educators in classrooms.

Sounds like part of a great project assignment for students!

I am notorious for teaching right up to the bell. Now that I am taking an intense look at great presentation guidelines, this should stick in my brain that it is a good idea to finish early and even not to give them 100% of the info.

If the presenter has gone way out of the way in the preparation stage to make the audience feel/become connected, better not stop now. Might as well get right up close with the audience to connect even more!

If this is acceptable protocol for business presentations, it is hard for me to picture how this ALL can be created in accordance to Presentation Zen.

I recently saw a presentation where a short video was imbedded and shown. The video MESSAGE did help in a very important way and the video MESSAGE alone was not fluff, however, the way the video was made had too much fluff.
It bothered me. I found myself not watching the video, only listening to the words as the visuals had too much fluff/noise.

In another section of this course, using slide sorter is mentioned/suggested. I had not heard of that before and it sounds helpful. When I read the above sentence I posted, I realized that slide sorter is plan B to first storyboarding it out.

I assume there are times that the first quoted wording IS the right choice vs. the second wording.

I can't really tell stories very well, but for years in the classroom, I keep telling certain ones. The ones that make the room quiet and the students engaged are the ones in which students are learning.

I am glad sound effects are still considered ok and even slides set to some music.
It makes sense since the goal is to elicit emotion and music does that.

Yet gathering people together though "ensures" that those present have reviewed the information presented. Just handing them a hard copy to save time does not "ensure" that.

...and I just always thought that good power point presentations should have all the points spelled out, and the presenter's job was to give clarification and answer questions about what was spelled out!

"brain dump" ... I think that is another term for "brain storm" neither which are polished final products

This feature is something that absolutely interests me!

I learned from this section when exactly to use a table or different types of graphs. I would not have been able to accurately explain when to use each kind...but now I know.

This is the opposite of what we practice and instruct students to do when they design a poster or display. I hope that is o.k. !

Never ever thought of it that way...I'm sure I many times do act like they are....I now need to always be mindful that they are.

10/20/30 good example of how a catchy visual is much easier to remember than lots of detail text on same thing.

The basis of mankind and conflict.