2. PowerPoint Presentations: An Overview Goals: 1.Understand the basic components of a GOOD PowerPoint presentation 2.Develop your communication objective 3.Brainstorm the components of your presentation

3. The PowerPoint Metaphor Slideshow Large audience Primarily visual The big picture

4. Components of a PowerPoint Slideshow Communication objective Unifying theme Text, graphics, animation, sound Audience participation

5. Communication Objective WIIFM? AWBAT Inform Persuade Elicit dialogue

6. Unifying Theme Color Key graphics Animation and/or sound Templates Custom

7. Text, graphics, animation, and sound Purposeful Readable/seeable/hearable Necessary

8. Audience Participation Speak Write Read Listen

9. Linear Slideshow End goal Logical progression Build-up

10. Non-Linear Slideshow Discussion-based—could go anywhere Hyperlinks to other slides or files Some non-linear abilities in all slideshows

11. Coltan and the Congo A Hotspots! Presentation

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15. Used in: Light-bulb filaments Cell phones Computers Game consoles (such as Playstations) Coltan ( columbium tantalite) Insert image(s) here

16. Source:http://www.virunga.org/jbin/story/4613http://www.virunga.org/jbin/story/4613

17. The Democratic Republic of the Congo Civil War since 1944 2,345,410 sq km (about one- fourth the size of the US)2,345,410 sq km (about one- fourth the size of the US) 77% forests and woodlands Source: CIA World Factbook 2001CIA World Factbook 2001

18. Civil War government revenue Foreign debt

19. Source: Wildlife Conservation Society http://www.eces.org/articles/static/9903348006466.shtml

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27. “…there is no point in the West "We have got to stop buying this stuff, and end the flow of money..." pointing a finger at the slaughter…” Greg Cummings, Executive Director of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund

28. What You Can Do Write to the companies who make the products you use— ask them to make sure that their coltan doesn’t come from mines in the protected National Parks in the DROC Money TALKS!

29. Designing your Slideshow State your communication objective List your components Outline your narrative Create your speaker notes Create your slides Test-drive your slideshow Create audience materials