1. Presentation Software

2. Essential Questions
When should presentation software be used to communicate information?
What content is appropriate for delivery through presentation software?
What method of information disbursement is most effective?

3. Characteristics of Inappropriate Content
Trivial or does not have a clear purpose
Meaning is lost when taken from the source and placed on slides
Presented in its original form as a/an
Emotional speech
Historical declaration
Memoir
Examples: Gettysburg Address, “I Have a Dream Speech”, Declaration of Independence

4. Characteristics of Appropriate Content
To Educate
Present a topic, explain procedures
To Persuade
Advertise, sell
To Narrate, Broadcast Messages, or Entertain
Display name of students, words of a song or speech for audience participation, list of location changes at a conference, etc

5. Presentation Decisions Activity
Put into Practice
Presentation Decisions Activity

6. What method of information disbursement is most effective?

7. Methods of Delivery and Distribution
Group Delivery with Speaker
Group Delivery without Speaker
Continuous Loop
Rolling Script
Self-Serve
As hardcopy

8. Group Delivery with Speaker
Used as a supplement (visual) to the speaker
Slide show should NOT contain so much information that is can substitute for the speaker
Displays graphic items that enhance communication
Example

9. Group Delivery without Speaker
Played one time to an audience
Does not require explanation or interpretation
May be displayed to entertain prior to a speech or event
May be used to inform an audience about procedures
Example

10. Continuous Loop Played repeatedly until manually stopped
May or may not have a logical beginning and end
Often used at trade shows where people rotate through at different times
May be used to broadcast general information
Example

11. Rolling Script
Played at a moderate pace to allow for user participation
Usually stand-alone, such as a prop for posting the lyrics of a song or the lines of a poem
Contemporary Church Services

12. Self-Serve Maybe delivered via a website (Microsoft training)
Self-paced, user friendly and often interactive
May be accompanied by a narration embedded within the presentation
Example

13. As Hardcopy (printed on paper)
To enable comprehension
Effective when the content is foreign, has to be remembered, is procedural, or is presented in a large group
Handout with 3 slides per page allows room for the audience to record notes beside slide
Can be distributed in color, grayscale, or black and white

14. Hard copy (cont) To assist the speaker
One slide per page and notes for the speaker
Outline view without graphics
Speaker has the notes or outline in front of her/him while presentation is displayed in the background

15. Delivery Decisions