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dy/dan » Blog Archive » Tell More Stories — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:49:33 +0000

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[…] less” approach which is exactly some of the advice being offered by Dan Meyer in some of his great posts on slide design. I wandered into Christian Long’s blog post where he was exploring aspects of one of […]

By: Jackie

Jackie — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:43:35 +0000

Ah, I had the impression that the six daily installments were pre-written. Happy presenting today!

By: dan

dan — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:02:46 +0000

Yeah, I swear I wasn’t trying to be coy at all. Just too busy building the slides to write about ’em.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:44:25 +0000

Uhm, building suspense by delaying the next post in the series? I feel like I did when I used to watch the soaps… running home to see what happened. Only now, I’m checking my RSS feed —yes, it is a very exciting life I lead — no offense intended :)

By: dan

dan — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:48:27 +0000

Funny joke.

By: TMAO

TMAO — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:58:40 +0000

Rumor has it that those pre-teachers’ instructors have been deferring a wide array of questions to you, in absentia, in advance of your coming.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 02:50:37 +0000

I’ve presented dozens of national, state and local presentations/workshops over the last 10 years–but have been out of the loop the last few years. I’ve been asked to present three 3-hour workshops/presentations later this fall so I’m back in the saddle–I happened upon Vicki Davis’s blog entry called Tips and Insights on New Presentation 2.0. She has some good ideas and lots of samples. You might be interested. http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2007/06/are-your-presentations-20-yet-tips-and.html

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:51:01 +0000

That’s a great point to be made: if it’s something you are going to show during your presentation, it needs to be one thing. If it’s going to stand on its own in the hands of participants in the room with you, that’s another. If it’s going to be looked at later without you there to explain, that’s yet another. The trouble, of course, is that none of those can look *too* different from the others or you risk people puzzling over whether or not it was the same presentation. And then you’ve got the whole color vs. b&w copy problem to consider if you’re looking at handouts for 150 people.

The same applies to handouts in the classroom. What’s the objective and who will do the talking? Build accordingly.

By: dan

dan — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:13:13 +0000

And just to kinda preview what I mean by “buncha”:

There’s a debate that raged awhile ago: do you build your slides so that they’ll stand just as well later on when you post them on Slideshare, when you won’t be speaking over them.

The answer there is a very loud no. Over the course of this presentation I’ll be creating a slidedeck which my voice will accompany, a slidedeck which I’ll put on the Internet, a set of handouts, and a video. Maybe a baby’s onesie. And guaranteed I’ll be reworking and remassaging the message to complement each of those mediums. There are no shortcuts, as easy as it is to hit Export or Print from PowerPoint’s File menu.

That’s, like, day three of this.