2. Abraham Lincoln

3. b a c kn e x t h o m e 11/19/1863 Gettysburg Cemetery Dedication Abraham Lincoln

4. b a c kn e x t h o m e 11/19/1863 Agenda n Met on battlefield (great) n Dedicate portion of field - fitting! n Unfinished work (great tasks)

5. b a c kn e x t h o m e 11/19/1863 Not on Agenda! n Dedicate n Consecrate n Hallow (in narrow sense) n Add or detract n Note or remember what we say

6. b a c kn e x t h o m e 11/19/1863 Review of Key Objectives & Critical Success Factors n What makes nation unique –Conceived in Liberty –Men are equal n Shared vision –New birth of freedom –Gov’t of/for/by the people

7. b a c kn e x t h o m e 11/19/1863 Organizational Overview

8. b a c kn e x t h o m e 11/19/1863 Summary n New nation n Civil war n Dedicate field n Dedicated to unfinished work n New birth of freedom n Government not perish

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 should we use instead of bullets?

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

25. The assertion-evidence model leads to increased recall

26. How could we fix this slide?

27. What do the slides highlight as important?

29. Presentation Zen

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

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

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

41. Graphical “Outlining”

45. Source: Garr Reynolds

47. Lessig Style

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

49. Non-PowerPoint Options

50. There are more options than PowerPoint Prezi Kinetic, Topological Presentations – Storytelling Techniques Explained Storytelling Techniques Explained – Ron Gutman Explores Little-Known Benefits of Smiling Ron Gutman Explores Little-Known Benefits of Smiling Consider using a screen-capture utility to make a video of non-local software Hans Rosling Makes Stats Interesting

51. 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 http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html