· Part
One
o
Our team collaborated with Slack and
Zoom. During the weekly Thursday meeting on Zoom, we decided to meet on Sunday
to divide the assignment after we had a better idea of what we were going to
report on. The presentation will be done over Zoom with a PowerPoint. It will
be edited with an editing program later. Raymond reminded us that the adobe
suite is free for students through our school email. I downloaded as much as
possible and will probably learn how to edit videos where it is needed. We're going
to meet Tuesday night to talk about what info we have found for our sections of
the presentation. The presentation is still in progress. For this project we're
going to have to meet multiple times and it may not work out for our entire
team. I'm not sure what we should do next time.
· Part
Two
§ From
the Ted Talk on "How to Speak so People Will Listen", very simple
graphics and words on the screen can be very effective. The graphics on the
screen lent to the emotion or feeling that can be experienced when committing
the sins of public speaking. The words on the screen that he used didn't take
more than a second to read contrasting with formal PowerPoint's that tell more
about the topic but can leave the viewer reading the entire time and not
listening to the content.
From "20 examples of great powerpoint design", I liked the idea of using a color filter over a stock image. Adobe CC has a lot of very pretty stock images I can use, so I could use photoshop to make these filtered photos. Number 13,IMPACT branding and design does this. This photo is a person in a kayak going off into the sea and the quote implies that they're trying to get something done or go somewhere.
o
Review ted.com video reflections
§ Interest
or passion.
o
Content of the talk
§ Computing
a theory of all knowledge
· Mathematica
o
He wanted to look at the computational
universe
· Wolfram
alpha
· A
new kind of science
o
Presentation/style of the talk
§ He
used simple graphics.
§ He
used an interactive program in Mathematica to demonstrate what it could do. He
could interact with the graphics by clicking premade buttons and zooming in
with the user interface, which is not done easily with other languages.
§ He
used his hands to do some gesturing. I didn’t think he did it as effectively as
the speaker in the other video.
§ He
had a funny section to demonstrate the program’s versatility; he wrote “spikey”
and it gave a pointy polyhedron. This really demonstrated the entire point of
the video; you can give the program simple language and it will guess at what
you meant.
§ academic
study
o
Content of the talk
§ How
to speak so that people want to listen
· He
opens with the 7 sins of speaking which involve complaining, gossip, judging,
ect. At the end, he lists them in order to reiterate the 7 bad ideas in red
with a black and yellow construction like tape to indicate that they are not
good.
· He
has an acronym that he uses to teach the audience the concept. It is yellow
lettering with a black background.
· He
associates words with a toolbox in order to tell the audience what they need to
do in order to fix the main problem.
o
Presentation/style of the talk
§ He
has clip art on the screen with no words then talks about them.
§ He
later has an acronym where words come on the screen as he is talking.
§ He
makes an effort to use his hands to gesture occasionally.
§ The
speaker has the audience stand up and enact the 6 things he does to warm up
before publically speaking.
§ He
finally has a simple chart that can be easily read. It uses yellow words on a
cyan background.
o
Presentation skills reading/video
· what
not to do in powerpoint
o
putting every word you will say
o
too large or small font size
o
no moving font
o
no, using all small letters means
you're lazy not that your're quiet and shy.
o
excessive bullet pointing
o
pointless animations
o
excessive acronyms
o
excessive graphs
· toastmaster
12 tips for 12 public speaking
o
delivering technical briefings
§ a
speech that conveys technical information to a specific audience
§ allows
audience to understand and apply critical information.
· know
your audience
· state
the purpose
· arrange
the material
· summarize
the main points
o
giving sales pitches
§ a
sales pitch or proposal seeks to persuade. the objective is to sell a product,
concept or idea. its purpose is to open the door to professional opportunities.
use an inverted pyramid to give the audience the most important first (money
saved, lives improved) then support with claims of logic or evidence. End with
a call to action. use simple high quality visual aids; one per main point. then
offer a question and answer where you get feedback of the effectiveness and
clarify questions.
· anticipate
questions
· provide
answers
· disarm
loaded questions by asking further explanation of questions
· divide
complicated questions into several parts before answering them
o
preparing a speech
§ organize
speech: opening, main points, summary
§ practice
and rehearse
§ become
familiar with the stage
§ choose
comfortable clothes
§ use
visual aids
o
speaking to diverse audiences
§ enunciate
clearly
§ don't
speak too fast
§ be
careful with metaphors
§ know
meanings of words outside your native language
§ avoid
slang, jargon, and idiomatic expressions
§ be
mindful of body language, eye contact and personal space
o
gestures and body language
§ eye
contact
§ control
mannerisms
§ put
verbs in action
§ avoid
insincere gestures: involve the entire body and matching facial expressions
§ move
around the stage
· 20
examples of great powerpoint design (there is 21 in my notes unfortunately)
- o colorful doodles and bold text
- o usually b&w photos occasionally with color
- o blurring effect with a shaded filter
- o color coded index of the start and finish of a section
- o hand drawn illustrations
- o clean design and simple color palette
- o doodles again
- o images and graphics and clean text
- o many fonts and big bold numbers
- o spotlight design and characters are blacked out but still recognizable
- o colorful graphs and charts
- o background color that goes with the company
- o visual tutorial
- o color filters over picture
- o minimalistic, large text and high quality images
- o different colors on charts and color graphics
- o consistent color pattern and leverages bullet points
- o text and image side by side in a split screen
- o unified font and color palette
- o storybook doodles
- o unique design
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