Through this week's first class, the reading assignment, the various example presentations (story tellings) that I reviewed and the group work, I have learned that my current way of conducting presentations is boring and laughably mundane in its use of available technology.You see, I have been brought up in the Military system where "death by powerpoint" is not so much an unfortunate every once in a while occurrence but is actually the standard method for building presentations.I blame this entire stigma on the fact that our presentations need to not only be presentable but, normally, able to stand on their own as Email attachments or as printed slides (with or without the accompanying notes that really just regurgitate what is already on each slide... verbatim!).
I watched some of the example presentations and marveled at the ability to present a topic without having every single last one of you words already written on the screen behind you for your audience to read along with you (until the coma sets in, of course!).
So, beyond learning that I have a long way to go before I am a good presenter of anything that resembles a well put together presentation, I also learned about the abundance of online multimedia that is available to help spruce up a presentation free of copyright issues. Creative Commons is quite amazing. I found myself browsing through several of the music sites for a couple of hours. It is great to see how much stuff is out there for use (for various costs - from nothing to CBS, NBC type figures!).
To sum up... I've learned that I've got quite a bit to learn about digital storytelling... which, until now, consisted of only powerpoint presentations.... soooo much to learn!!!
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