PowerPoint and Pecha Kucha are both tools for slideshow-based presentation, but they present information in drastically different ways. The key difference between their formats is in the timing of the resulting slideshow. This time difference gives each program its benefits and disadvantages.
PowerPoint is a Microsoft program used for presentations. The presentations consist of a number of slides, which are individual pages, generally shown in landscape orientation. Text, pictures, videos or whatever else can be incorporated into any given slide. Most often templates are used to provide a consistent style and format of information presented throughout the slideshow.
PowerPoint has many benefits. Given its many available formats and ease of changing the layout and style of all of the slides simultaneously through changes to a master slide it is easy to put together a presentation, much easier than the mediums it remediates such as actual slides or overhead projector pages. Using PowerPoint to create and organize visual aids for an information intense talk can be incredibly useful in both the education and business worlds. People who may have not have used visual aids in the past are able to explain their business ideas or present their lectures in a clear, visually interesting way. People who have experience with older visual aid mediums are now able to do it in a much easier way. PowerPoint allows speakers to better engage their audience, including more images and video into their presentations. Still images and video capture visual interest which allows the speaker to better get her/his points across to an audience.
However, not everyone uses the tools available in PowerPoint to create interesting and captivating ...
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In conclusion, both PowerPoint and Pecha Kucha formats have their advantages and drawbacks. PowerPoint is better suited for topics requiring more detail or introduction of a new subject but can be extremely tedious if not done with interesting visual aids. Pecha Kucha can be very engaging and to the point but is not suited for introducing new topics or for great detail due to its time constraints.
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We begin with the analysis of the benefits of power point slides. The point of a power point slide is to accelerate information absorption by making a clean cut easy to read, very linear, presentation. The use of the power point system allows a better understanding of the conversation; you are able to easily differentiate between two speakers, you can easily understand who is speaking and in what order they spoke. Most of the conversations held in the reading are linear, beginning with Speaker A, and transitioning back and fourth between Speaker A and B as they argue or converse. You are not left wondering who is speaking at which point. There is a superb example of this on page 253 where Sasha is nagging Alison to write journals rather than make slides. As the reader you can easily navigate though the argument and understand who is speaking and what the argument is pertaining to.
He used Power Point when he presented. The power point was very helpful. He listed all the key words on it. It was easy to get main points. And the pictures were visual. He used the two different baseballs, baseball bat, mitten and baseball uniform to supported the information. It made audience to belief his speech. Also, he gave audience a lot of examples about how to play baseball.
The effects of color help to understand how audiences may perceive visuals used in business communication. The use of color has become more prevalent in business as the costs of including color graphics has decreased. Color is often used in business communication to represent categories. Some examples would be charts and presentations. A summary of empirical studies on the effects of color by The Program of Research for Investigating Management Information Systems was reviewed in this article. The studies show significant time improvements in business related activities when color was utilized. Also that the use of color improves: recall, search-and-locate tasks, retention, comprehension and decision making (Hoadley, 1990).
“In fact, some corporations, like 3M, are banning PowerPoint from their offices” (Wahl, 2003). Employees can learn through analyzing, interacting with others, and discussing. However, PowerPoint encourages presentation, not conversation. Bullet points summarize everything into a few words, leaving no area to analyze or discuss the information further. According to Julia Keller (2003) PowerPoint condenses information into a “preconceived format” (para. 8) that is one-sided based on the presenter’s view of the information. A case study of three PowerPoint presentations directed to NASA officials was conducted by Edward Tufte (2003), an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University, to provide evidence of the dangers in using bulleted outlines. The case study was summarized by the
Talk Cards: During my speech I plan to use my student and gun advocate cards. By using these cards, I will be able to relate to the audience and create a connection. As a result, I will be able to increase the audience’s interest in my speech.
There are as many informative speeches as the topics to talk about; it could be an informative self-development talk, or a seminar on how to improve your life by mindful-thinking, or it might be a talk or a seminar on topic of real-estate investment, teaching the audience how investing in certain properties will reduce your taxes.
When using slides, color contrast is another excellent way for a speaker to catch the audience’s attention! The C.R.A.P. design principles also can use shapes and symbols to convey a message. Visual elements using the four basic design principles are probably the most important pieces of information that should be carried through the presentation. Using visual elements, such as infographics, can contribute to how information can be remembered or memorized easiest by the audience. Images or infographics are great tools when promoting attention and retaining information. Images that are easy to comprehend, involve forming visual memories. They reinforce the process of memory recall and visual elements (Keogh,
...s a teacher, infuse multiple modes of instruction within one lesson to help students with all intelligences learn and benefit from lessons.
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Over the years education has been making rapid technological advances, it seems like every year there is some new tool entering the classroom. Most of us today don't remember when classrooms were using chalk and slate boards because of the new technology that we have developed. Now we have grown accustom to overheard projectors, television and computers, but what seems to be the new trend of education is Power Point. It is every where we turn, "more than 90% of computer-based presentation visuals in the country are created using PowerPoint."(Ricky Telg, Ph.D., and Tracy Irani, Ph.D.) The basic break down of power-point, has to do with visuals, it is a program that offers templates for doing a presentation in many different styles. No matter what template a person chooses they can almost be guaranteed that their presentation will be unique, because power-point allows users to manipulate the colors, styles of writing, pictures and many more fun things that it offers. PowerPoint is being used from elementary schools all the way to universities world wide, the teachers and professors are finding that most of their kids enjoy the visual learning that power-point has to offer. With all the wonderful things that power-point provides education, there are still some skeptics out there who believe that power-point is too much of a distraction and not enough of a reinforcer of the information that the students are suppose to be learning. With all new things there are pros and cons for how it works and power-point is no different, but no matter what, the number of educators using power-point in their classroom continues to rise, the only question is for how long?
Practice is a major role that needs to be played when it comes to presenting. Practicing, I feel gives you more confidence in your speech, and more preparation than if you were to not practice. Rehearsing before the speech then presenting makes you seem like you actually know what you are talking about even if the only reason you know all these facts is because of study and practicing. Practicing through my speech really helps me with my presentation, if I practice enough, I feel very confident to where I wouldn’t need t a paper to look at notes during the speech. This concept is important for anything. Practicing will always help you with any future task.
Oral presentations allows students to verbalize knowledge and use oral communication skills. Examples include interviews, speeches, skits, debates, and dramatizations.
Infographics are so popular because audiences can absorb the information quickly and conveniently. It today’s hectic, fast-paced world, anything that is quick and convenient is seen as desirable.
... generally accepted that a teacher’s main role is to facilitate learning rather than to be the source of all knowledge” (p.2).