Lesson 8 Making Presentations

Presentations have 3 goals:

Inform: tells info about a topic

Educate: telling information to get the audience to do something about it

Persuade: to convince someone to do something

People learn in three different ways:

Seeing: using pictures and visuals (get info from screen and not speaker)

Hearing: using sounds and voices (get info from speaker and not screen)
Doing: using hands on activities, actions, Q&A's, etc. (get info from actions and not really speaker or screen)

4 things that make a up a PowerPoint Presentation:

Text: Words on a pp slide

Charts and Graphs: Data on a pp slide (math, money, science, timeline, etc.)

Photos and Graphics: Pictures and objects in the pp slide for visual people

Audio and Video: Videos and sounds that teach the read info, can give a more broad topic of info with videos for visual and audio people.

Presentation Rules:

Slides simple and easy to read 7-7

State your purpose

Add image to support purpose

Relax when you speak

Don't read the slides directly to the audience

Make eye contact with the audience

Practice your presentation

Colors:

Light colored backgrounds with dark text

Dark backgrounds with bright text

Font Size:

Use large font size so it's easy to read

Limit how much text on each slide

Make text clean and big

Make multiple slides if you can't fit all the text on the 1 slide

Organize your presentation:

State purpose

Present in multiple ways

End with a summary

Supporting Images:

Keep people interested

Reinforce key messages

Help visual learners understand

Avoid Cluttering with slides and images:

Avoid slide clutter

Don't use to many colors

Relax and be Friendly:

Don't read slides word for word or don't talk to fast

Add info and example in own words

allows time for note taking

answer audience questions

practice presentation

POIT Lesson 6 Peripherals

• Peripherals: Devices that provide the computer with input or output.
• Mouse - Input= Optical or laser, wireless or wired, trackball, USB mouse.
• Keyboard - Input= Input device that sends a signal of keys or key combinations to the computer as to what to do.
• Monitor - Output= CRT and LCD, Monitor can be an input device when it's a touch screen, pixel is a small colored dot that is displayed on a screen.
• Printer - Output= Scanner = reads the image that is a document or photo and sends it to a computer, can't save it as a processing document. Multi function = scans, prints, copies, faxes, etc. would have one at work.
• Flash Drive - Input= CD Drive, Floppy disk drive, Blu-ray. External Drives: Things that hold information as storage for you, can go into your computer, have bigger ones, 
• Tower Cases: have one bay for optical drive, different sized and types can be loaded into the same case
• Dream Computer: Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor, Printer, Scanner, Storage Devices, Game controllers/joysticks