2. Abraham Lincoln

3. Gettysburg Cemetery Dedication
Abraham Lincoln
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4. Agenda Met on battlefield (great) Dedicate portion of field - fitting!
Unfinished work (great tasks)
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5. Not on Agenda! Dedicate Consecrate Hallow (in narrow sense)
Add or detract
Note or remember what we say
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6. Review of Key Objectives & Critical Success Factors
What makes nation unique
Conceived in Liberty
Men are equal
Shared vision
New birth of freedom
Gov’t of/for/by the people
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7. Organizational Overview
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8. Summary New nation Civil war Dedicate field
Dedicated to unfinished work
New birth of freedom
Government not perish
11/19/1863

10. PowerPoint Run Amok

16. Battling Bullets

17. What is your reaction to this format?

18. The standard format is mentally exhausting!

20. Visuals, with limited text, are easier to process

21. Limit use of bullets to actual lists
Your agenda items
A summary
A short list of important details

22. What could we use instead of bullets?

23. The Assertion – Evidence Model
What could we use instead of bullets?
The Assertion – Evidence Model

25. How could we fix this slide?

26. What do the slides highlight as important?

28. Presentation Zen

31. change the world The only reason to give a speech is to
—John F Kennedy

32. If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
—Albert Einstein

33. Presentation Zen Examples
Seth Godin on Making a Difference Garr Reynolds on Being Like Bamboo

38. Graphical “Outlining”

42. Source: Garr Reynolds

44. Lessig Style

45. Lawrence Lessig Fast transitions, many slides
Lessig's Talk on Free Culture and Copright
Lawrence Lessig
Fast transitions, many slides
Single word or short phrase
Text can:
Mirror
Augment
Contradict

46. Non-PowerPoint Options

47. There are more options than PowerPoint
1. Prezi
Kinetic, Topological Presentations
Storytelling Techniques Explained
Ron Gutman Explores Little-Known Benefits of Smiling
2. PowToon
3. Make your own charts/images and save as JPG files

48. Sources Gettysburg Address Spoof from norvig.com
Afghanistan Stability from New York Times
Assertion-Evidence examples from Michael Alley at engr.psu.edu
Lessig image from fastcompany.com
All other images from presentationzen.com
Laurence Lessig talk available at