PowerPoint is a metaprogram, one that organises and presents stuff created in other applications.

Initially PowerPoint is limiting, inflexible, and biased, like most software.

"using PowerPoint is fun and relatively easy. The pleasurable rewards come quickly and often. Your amateur presentation looks at least as good as any professional's".

David Byrne

PowerPoint's order and structure give it the appearance of rationality and scientific rigor. This appearance is easy to emulate.

"Power corrupts and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely."

Vint Cerf.

PowerPoint has the potential to make any content look like a serious statement about anything.

PowerPoint communicates within certain limited parameters really well and very easily. The genius of it is that it was designed for any idiot to use. You can learn it in a few hours, and that's the idea.

"PowerPoint is like a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple"

Edward R. Tufte.

"It's very reductionist, there is a crude linearity to the way the program works. Unlike a book or a Web site, you can't flip around the pages. It's more like a teleprompter.“

Nancy Halpern, a PowerPoint specialist at the Strickland Group

Nelson Mandela did not use PowerPoint to inspire people

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consider your story

linear narrative

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imageschoose images that you can talk about that are part of your storychoose images so that they can be prompts

text consider the text as titles

to start

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2 open PhotoShop

3 find image

4 open in Photoshop

5 image – resize – image size

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open up a new document in PowerPoint

save as - give the presentation a title

Decide on its location....- within the same folder as images- within a folder with all presentations- within the unit

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insert title

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insert text

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performing the presentation

imagesuse images as prompts – tell at least one fact per image

text do not read off the screen – it is really boring and –your audience can read.