Presentation Purpose

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What is presentation software?

Presentation software is a program used to create slide shows or multimedia presentations.

Multimedia means presenting data in more than one medium, such as combining text, graphics, animation, video and sound.

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To Use or Not to Use?

View the next five slides as an example of when a multimedia presentation is not the best method for delivering a message.

What if President Lincoln had used Power Point to deliver the Gettysburg Address?

– The next 5 slides are presented by permission of Peter Norvig.

– For additional information, visit his website

http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/making.html

Gettysburg Cemetery

Dedication

Abraham Lincoln

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Agenda

Met on battlefield (great)

Dedicate portion of field - fitting!

Unfinished work (great tasks)

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Not on Agenda!

Dedicate

Consecrate

Hallow(in narrow sense)

Add or detract

Note or remember what we say

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Review of Key Objectives

& Critical Success Factors

What makes nation unique

• Conceived in Liberty

• Men are equal

Shared vision

• New birth of freedom

• Gov’t of/for/by the people

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Organizational Overview

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Summary

New nation

Civil war

Dedicate field

Dedicated to unfinished work

New birth of freedom

Government not perish

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Now listen to the audio versionThe Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. -- Abraham Lincoln

Which method is better? Why?

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Content is trivial or without a clear purpose

Content loses its meaning when translated

Content should be preserved in its original form

Characteristics of Inappropriate Content

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Examples?

As a class, brainstorm other examples of when presentation software is an inappropriate method of information distribution and communication

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To Use or Not to Use

You guessed it!

The next presentation will provide an example of when presentation software isappropriate as a means of communication.

Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest

Shaping the

Pacific Northwest

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The Nisqually Earthquake

February 28, 2001

6.8 magnitude

Source: http://nsmp.wr.usgs.gov/data_sets/20010228_1/images/olympia/PicO-31.jpg

Source: http://nsmp.wr.usgs.gov/data_sets/20010228_1/

images/Seattle/PicS-19.jpg

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Mount St. Helens

Eruption May 18, 1980

Sources: http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Imgs/Jpg/MSH/SlideSet/49.jpg

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Imgs/Jpg/MSH/SlideSet/19.jpg

Began with small earthquakes in March

5.1 earthquake in May before major

eruption

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Educational

– To train, present information, emphasize key points, or explain procedures

Persuasive

– To advertize or provoke action

Narrative,

– To broadcast messages, tell a story, or entertain

Characteristics of Appropriate Content

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Examples?

As a class, brainstorm other examples of when presentation software is an inappropriate method of information distribution and communication

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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions…

One the decision has been made to use presentation software, the next step is to determine the best method of delivery

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The End