Kawasaki Method - Guy Kawasaki (posted by ~Aja)

Guy Kawasaki

Kawasaki recommends no more than 10 slides in your presentation because that's all that people can generally absorb. He also suggests you keep your slide presentation to under less than 20 minutes and to use a 30 point font size at minimum so that your slides are highly readable. Or as he more humorously says, "find out who the oldest person in the room is and divide his or her age by two" to get your optimal font size. Using a large font size also helps to reduce the amount of information you can pack onto a slide. This has been referred to as the "10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint".

The Hardt Method using Keynote 2.0 on a Mac computer - Dick Hardt (posted by ~Aja)

Another alternate PowerPoint presentation style is the Hardt Method. In 2005, Dick Hardt gave a presentation at OSCON entitled, "Identity 2.0" in which he used 200 slides to tell a funny and interesting story about digital identity and the World Wide Web. Specifically, Hardt addressed digital identity and important issues associated with it such as notions of trust, verification security and privacy. Hardt used creative and engaging visuals aligned with storytelling elements to yield a  fresh and inspiring presentation that moved beyond the traditional bulleted PowerPoint presentation.

Techniques used:

• Speech opening & question: "Who am I?"
• Lots of humour
• Keeping the big picture
• Repetition
• Lessig techniques
• Summary of presentation chunks
• Analogies Abound

For detailed discussion of the above techniques see the following Reference below:
Dlugan, A. (2007). Critique: Lessig method presentation style (Dick Hardt, Identity 2.0, (OSCON 2005)
http://sixminutes.dlugan.com/presentation-20-hardt-executes-the-lessig-method/

A 15 minutes presentation on Identity and the Web
http://www.identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/

Why Smart Board So Easy to Use - Posted by Vivi

Smart Board encourages teachers to interact more with students in the class!
Let's first take a look at how easy to use Smart Board!

Another Lessig Slide Presentation using Keynote - 5 mins only (posted by ~Aja)

In this blog, we hope to not only expose you to alternative forms of PowerPoint presentations, but also give you a balance perspective as to what others on the Web are saying about a particular method.  So, what are people saying about "The Lessig Method" of presentation?

In the blog posting, Lessig Method presentation, Wesley Fryer writes, "Lessig is a powerful communicator using 21st century presentation tools."

See reference website:
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2005/12/13/lessig-method-presentation/

James Grimmelmann of LawMeme maintains the following:
Larry Lessig as PowerPoint Virtuoso

Larry is one of the most extraordinary PowerPoint virtuouso I've seen. Its not just the white-on black typwriter font. He uses phrases as anchors into his talk: the slide are signposts that let you glance up and pull out key words and ideas from his talk. He's also brillant at taking slides he's previously shown and modifing them to put new twists on those ideas. At the DRM conference, he changed background colors to show the expansion of copyright; today, he played with color and placement of text. When he flips through the slides showing copyright terms in various years, it's almost an animation. And when he's talking about old films decaying and disappearing, he uses a blank black slide.

See reference website:
http://www.ventureblog.com/2003/07/putting-the-power-in-powerpoint.html and
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/02/on_why_i_am_not_running.html


Stephen O' Grady of Redmonk.com makes 3 main points about the Lessig Method:

• The Lessig Method is Hard:

... Shifts the burden of presentation from the deck to the speaker.  With only a couple of words or a phrase on each slide, there are no talking points to cover except what you've written down before ... So either you write out your whole talk ahead of time - which can be hugely time consuming, or your practice it enough that you can remember all the references, transitions, etc. in simple terms, designing a minimalist deck, paradoxically, takes me a lot more time than it would to generate a conventional one.

• The Lessig Method Makes the Standalone Deck Relevant:

One of the most common criticism of my presentations was that the slides were more or less useless without speaker's note. Given that there were no spaeker's notes, there's not much I can provide them. But if you're going to present a minimalist deck with the intent of rdistribution, some thoughts should go into providing the accompanying audio.

• The Lessig Method may make You More Creative:

... The medium of slides tends to frame your arguments. For example, while designing slides it's natural to think in terms of bulleted lists - even if that's not the most complelling way to make your argument ... Slides can, if you let them, restrict discourse and creativity. The Lessig method doesn't solve that problem, but it gives you more of a blank slate to work from than your typical Powerpoint template.

See reference website:
http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2005/10/27/some-notes-on-the-lessig-method/

Alternate Powerpoint Styles: Lessig, Hardt, and Kawasaki (posted by ~Aja)

There are some scholars and researchers that maintain that traditional PowerPoint presentations are boring and that to engage the current student population, one has to move away from preformatted design and bulleted presentations to alternate forms of presentations. Over the course of this week, I will be looking at three diferent styles of  PowerPoint (PP) presentations: Lessig Method aka Lessig Presentation Style (Lawrence Lessig); Hardt Method (Dick Hardt)and Kawasaki Method (Guy Kawasaki)

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Let's start with a sample PowerPoint presentation by Lawrence Lessig and discuss his method.

Technique: the use of slides with often just a single word, short quote, or a photo aligned with his narration in Flash

Computer of Choice: MAC

Presentation software: Apple Keynote

For reference: See The "Lessig Method" of presentation
http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/10/the_lessig_meth.html

Welcome to IDE611 Collaborative Project for Music Teachers (posted by ~Aja)

Technologies are rarely used in elementary school general music classroom. Our project is designed to facilitate musical instructors integrate varied forms of technologies, such as PowerPoint, Smart Board, or YouTube videos into their lessons in order to strengthen instructional outcomes and promote student curiosity, interest, and engagement.

The members in our team are: April Rando, Ajajielle "Aja" Brown, Yufei “Vivi” Wu, and Bruce Williams Jr.

Goals
There are six main goals to this project:

• First, this project allows student to work on a real world, authenic project which promotes active learning and student engagement.
• Second, this project enables students to work collaboratively with one another as well as with an external client from LeMoyne Elementary School.
• Third, this project will provides students with an opportunity to use web 2.0 technologies, such as a blog and wiki, for the dissemination of information and training materials.
• Fourth, this project will lead to students designing, creating, and posting training materials and videos to project blog site and Youtube.com Web site.
• Fifth, this project will offer recommendations to Syracuse School District music teacher for integrating technology into their lessons plans.
• Sixth, music teachers will have a familiarity with Web 2.0 technologies, specifically, Smartboards, Blogs, and Wikis.

Final Project include
Instructional Material
Blog will be the main instructional material for our project. We are going to update the blog each week with  content on how to use Powerpoint, Smart Board and Youtube.com videos to strengthen instuctional outcomes and learning objectives. Ultimately, we hope to share and reprint the videos on Youtube to instruct teachers how to use those technologies.

Learning Activities
The communication is based on E-mail and Blog comments. We are going to post some instructional articles as well as reprint or share some of the guidance videos to instruct teacher how to use Smart Board and PowerPoint.

Assessment Learning
All the comments will be saved and shown in the blog.