As you develop your next presentations, what challenges/successes are you finding with your topics and integrating a technology? Is it a challenge to use a tool other than PowerPoint for this presentation, or is there liberation in using something (potentially) new? Are you trying to make connections between these presentations-- or do you have a different approach?
Other ideas, issues, etc. are welcome for discussion.
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Having PowerPoint encouraged if not required for almost every presentation/speech I've had these past few years makes this presentation different. Yet it is a kind of different I like. There are two ways I kinda want to approach this one. One is definitely more traditional and doable than the other. However, the other would be much more fun and memorable.
ReplyDeleteThe problem I have with doing the memorable one is that it is practically random and would not seem to be related to the topic. I am still not sure which one I am going to use.
As I continue to develop the next presentation, there hasn't been too many challenges other than deciding what I actually have time to share and what isn't necessary to share. I believe that it is easier to integrate a different technology like showing off a program than it is to create a powerpoint presentation. The reason for this is mainly due to the fact that a power point is scripted and has more of a "straight and narrow" path to follow. The only deviation lies within the speaker presenting each point. Where as a presentation of a program follows very few guidelines and even less of a script. You can show each feature how and when you want, no real constraints other than you explain it as best you can. I believe that speeches are better that way, so that the person can truly flow with the words and not just read off of cards.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Kyle that most classes stress Powerpoint, so trying something new is both strange and exciting. I'm not quite sure what technology I'm going to use yet. This definitely opens up our options and allows us explore new boundaries for the class and real world. I'm excited to see how people decide to present.
ReplyDeleteThe main challenge that I thought of for not being able to use PowerPoint is how to display pictures. Text in a PowerPoint during a speech is distracting anyway. I have decided to do a walk-through so as to show my audience step by step how to learn my topic. The walk-through will be better for explaining my topic in this speech format.
ReplyDeleteAs I prepare for my next presentation, I'm easily frustrated because I feel like it's hard to incorporate everything I want to say. I chose a topic that not everyone may know about, so I feel like I'm covering a lot of background information first rather than presenting the fun part of the topic. I don't want to present the boring information only, but I want everyone to understand why I'm interested in the topic. A powerpoint presentation would be an easy tool to present a topic for the first time because it's so straightforward. I like being able to use other forms of presenting rather than building the same powerpoint presentation that I've built for every project since practically forever! I agree with everyone else though, because it's also kind of scary to rely on something else for the presentation. Whenever I'm relying on something technological for a presentation, I worry that the computer won't work as well as my computer at home. Now I just wish I would have used my first presentation for this one!
ReplyDeleteWhen I chose my topic for my speech I wanted to speak about something that I knew about and that will be very influential in my career ahead of me. When I started to develop my outline I realized there was no way the information I thought was important was going to fit in the given amount of time for the speech. Also, I was having trouble coming up with ways use a different technology other than PowerPoint. This led me to change my topic to something that I will be able to to use an alternate technology as well as fit all the important information in.
ReplyDeleteI just believe that PowerPoint is the most common and effective tool that we use when delivering our speeches. I'm sure, though, that we might be comfortable with another type of slide viewer, or something along the lines of PowerPoint. It's become hard to fathom stepping away from PowerPoint and using another form of technology to present, but I think the real problem is just finding that new technology. Once it is found, presenting should fall right into place.
ReplyDeleteI dont think this is very different or hard for me to not use powerpoint. Since i am using a website that is already made and published i don't really need to much that is too technical for me. I use the website that i am giving my presentation on everyday for my major and just for fun on some days. So it is like second nature for me now and easy to use. I thought it was hard although to find references because i kind of just know how to use it ad navigate through the page. But i am going to reference some of my aviation books and the actual website itself and i explain why in my presentation.
ReplyDeleteI personally love using PowerPoint. I have been using it all my life and think it is great at displaying information for use in a presentation. It was difficult for me to figure out another way to display my information. I decided to use Adobe Presenter. Adobe Presenter allows you to embed your PowerPoint presentations on a website that can be viewed by anyone. I have used it before and it works great!
ReplyDeleteAs far as I can remember, my presentations have generally been done by using Power Point. I think that this presentation offers the perfect opportunity to look into the different types of visual aid. To determine which type of visual aid to use, I needed to ask myself what sort of visual aid would best suite a how-to. I decided that a demonstration done on the computer, as well as a handout would work for getting my point across.
ReplyDeleteI was generally confused by what you meant by technology at first. I didn't know if we had to use a program or if we could use the internet. I also went by engineering's definition of technology, thinking that any product used to simplify the task could be considered technology, like a picture or something.
ReplyDeleteAlthough this is after the fact, I will say that I personally did not have much trouble using something other than PowerPoint.
ReplyDeleteI had already made 3 Web sites before creating the site that I used as my visual aid for this speech, and since this was only a quick, simple visual aid, I did not have to pay attention to the stricter, XHTML-type formatting issues. In the end, it took only a brief period of time for me to put this site together; in my opinion there was a lot more of a challenge in the source/reference component of the assignment.
All in all, I feel that the non-Powerpoint-technology idea was an interesting change, and it added little or no unnecessary strain to the assignment for me.
There was likely no specific link between the subjects of my two presentations made so far, except that they both involved computers and technology. I expect that computer-related subjects will be the dominant theme in my COM 315 speeches in general, both because I want to make sure my speech subjects are consistent with the basic concept of this course (Speech Communication of TECHNICAL Information) and because I am keenly interested in, and fairly knowledgeable about, computers in general.
Getting started on this presentation was especially challenging for me. All my life I've been funneled into using Power-Point for a presentation. It is "the" presentation tool. Trying to figure out how to implement a new form of technology was not something that immediately came to me and I was forced to get ideas from fellow classmates.
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