Multimedia Writing -- Plan Presentation Text

Begin  Plan Presentation Text

Organize presentation text. Here are a few options:

1. Buy a stack of 4"X6" cards.

Grab a pencil.
Make the first card your title card.
On each card write enough text for one slide.
Re-arrange cards, throw cards away, add new cards as your script develops.
Make your last card your resource card. Note any resources you used.
Transfer your script to the presentation software program. Enter the text on a plain white slide and worry about your backgrounds, fonts, and effects later.

2. Type out your script in list form.

Open a word-processing program and number from 1-20 (a good number of slides for a presentation.)
Type your script, reorganizing slide content with your cut and paste function.

3.Open your presentation software.

Without adding any colors, effects, or backgrounds, write your words.
Make sure your script is concise, complete, clear, and accurate.
The first slide is a title slide and the last slide is a resource slide.
Go back later and add the visual doo-dads.

 

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Here are two leading presentation software programs. Which one is better for you? Why?

1.MS PowerPoint

2.Apple Keynote

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Helpful links:
For Better or Worse: Learning and Presentation Software

Creating Effective Slides (Using PowerPoint)

Read Chapter Ten: Special Considerations for Visual Presentations

“As for style of writing — if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground."
—Henry David Thoreau (letter written 1857)