Q For the computer skills this week, it's time to conceptualize and approach the presentation portion of disseminating information. You've seen snippets of what this looks like when watching lecture videos. This week you should watch and focus on the important factors of viewing presentations in a professional manner. The following videos give you introductions and overviews into Powerpoint on how begin using them, applying the templates, and even creating custom ones. Importantly, when it comes to presentations, it's good to keep in mind some key factors: the content is easily digestible and allows your audience to still follow what you're saying while the design is engaging but not distracting. Remember that the slides are supplements to a presentation, they aren't the presentation itself. Powerpoint Simple Introduction Videos Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 - Full Tutorial for Beginners [ 14 MINUTES! ]* (Links to an external site.) This is a short video that shows you how to design your own slide design. How to Design a Good Slide PowerPoint Tutorial | PowerPoint Slide Design (Links to an external site.) Assignment Using the presentation software of your choice, I want you to translate the TED Talk you watched into a slide-based presentation for conveying the information. This exercise is to push you to consider the delicate balance between the amount of content on slides alongside the amount of lecture (i.e. talking about/beyond/over slides) a good lecture needs. Consider when you watching a lecture, especially in-person. If there is a lot of text on the slide, you may notice most people struggling to get all of the information into their notes, usually not able to get much of anything written down from the lecture itself. This is obviously not good since the point of the additional lecture is to give the deeper understandings (text on slides for a large portion of your professors is basically "here are the headlines, listen for the important aspects of the story). On top of this, though, I find that students do not stay engaged with classes that are lecture only (i.e. no slides). One of the reasons that TED Talks can work so well with minimal slides is that ability to re-watch/pause/adjust speed. Most presentations do not occur in this fashion, though, so it's a delicate balance. To push you to really consider where focus needs to lie, you'll be working to translate a lecture-heavy presentation into a set of presentation slides you'd be more likely to see in one of your in-person classes. Week 5 Exercise Part 2 – Creating Presentations Guidelines TED Talks give a preference for the spoken aspects of talks, requiring quite a bit on the audience regarding focus and recall. Using the TED Talk you viewed for Week 5 Exercise Part 2 and create a simple presentation that would offer you the opportunity as a viewer to keep track of the major points, similar to what you’ll need to do for your final presentation. Consider the TED Talk world and pay close attention to the audience: very few folks are taking notes. Across the talks there is a lot of information, and regularly very specific and detailed claims. TED Talks often take the form of entertainment but are also beneficial for learning, so I want you to treat this like you were at an actual lecture. Create a presentation with the following items: 1. Title slide o Include the title of the talk and information about the speaker (name, title, affiliation, date) 2. A slide summarizing the main point o Think of this as akin to a thesis: what is the point of the talk that is about to be presented? 3. Multiple slides that offer simple bullet points so the viewer can identify the major points of what to keep track of. o These shouldn’t be verbatim what is spoken, but are simple, to the point items that aid the viewer in listening to the talk. o Think of this as similar to your classes: lecture slides regularly combine bullet points, key quotes, graphs, tables, etc. This is done to give the audience a waypoint on the primary points that the subsequent explanation and discussion expand upon. For the above, the biggest focus is that I want you to make a presentation that is professional and would be useful for you and other viewers. Complete this presentation and save it as Your Name Week 5 Exercise Part 2 in a PPT or PDF format.