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Basic considerations

• Do I really need slides?

• Does it add quality (content wise / didactical) to my presentation?

• Powerpoint = Presentation/

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• emphasising main points

• media pictures, video, filmgraphs

• linear information

• enforces structure to presentation

+ -• big hazel, needs equipment

• electricity

• difficult for interactive presentations

• reduces interaction

• dangerous reduction of complex issues on bulletpoints

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some hints★ use large fonts

★ use sans serif fonts such as

Arial, Helvetica, Futura

★ use high contrast

★ less is more

★ know your equipment

★ check the equipment before

you use it

★ go through your presentation

before holding it at least once

★ make it visually appealing

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avoid• long text• low contrast• serif Fonts like: Times New Roman#• large and long texts• to small fonts • presenting unprepared

• many different forms of highlighting

„The standard PowerPoint presentation elevates format over content, betraying an attitude of commercialism that turns everything into a sales pitch. (...)Particularly disturbing is the adoption of the PowerPoint cognitive style in our schools. Rather than learning to write a report using sentences, children are being taught how to formulate client pitches and infomercials. Elementary school PowerPoint exercises (as seen in teacher guides and in student work posted on the Internet) typically consist of 10 to 20 words and a piece of clip art on each slide in a presentation of three to six slides -a total of perhaps 80 words (15 seconds of silent reading) for a week of work.“ from: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html Septermer 2003

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• MS Office Suite

• Powerpoint

• about 150 € SSL License

• Win / Mac

• Open Office

• Impress

• free on the internet

• Win / Mac / Linux

• can read ppt files

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how to connect laptop with beamer

• Most Laptops have a VGA Port (right)

• connect Beamer cable with Laptop

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Beamerside•connect cable to beamer

•choose „autodetect“ or „VGA Input“ (might have diffrent name

•know what resolution the beamer supports (most 1024 x 768)

•turn beamer of with power button and disconnett when fan ist off

•never place something infront of the lens when beamer is working

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Two ways for turning on your vga port

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Some Laptops may turn it on without any interference

of the user

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On the Desktop right click on „Eigenschaften“10

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Some Laptops have special keys for this.Such as Fn + F7 here

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How to operate Powerpoint (& most

other software)

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Starting my presentation

F5 F5F4F5 starts from the beginning

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if you interrupt, use the Umschalt + F5

to start from the current slide

F516

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Getting forward:press one of these Keys

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Getting backward:press one of these Keys

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accessing the menu

right click on the screenand choose „Zeigeroptionen“

to emphasise something

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hints with technology

• always have the power cord with you

• turn off your instant massenger (Skype, MSN, ... )

• Put all the files into one specific folder

• if it is really important: Print out the slides on plastic

• give people a handout

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SourcesPower Point and its dangers: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/29/AR2005082901444.html

What if Lincoln had used powerpoint to make the Gettysburg address? see: http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/

Microsoft Home-page with online tutorials for Powerpoint: http://office.microsoft.com/de-de/powerpoint/FX100487761031.aspx

OpenOffice Download: www.openoffice.org

PowerPoint Is Evil, Wired Septemer 2003: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html

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