Date

Class Meeting

For Next Class

monthly #6

establish speaking order for project 2 presentations-- volunteer &/or draw for spaces [actual presentations will occur after spring break, probably Mon, 3/17-Fri, 3/21] 

peer-review of white papers (first drafts)

• proposed groups
• peer-review sheet

read ch 16 and Edward Tufte's Wired article, "PowerPoint is Evil."

Also interesting/amusing:

• Survey of annoying PP features
• Tad Simons, "Does Powerpoint Make You Stupid?" (PDF).
• The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation
• David Byrne, "Learning to Love PowerPoint"
• Tufte, "PowerPoint does rocket science"  
• Scott McCloud (the "Understanding Comics" guy) on Powerpoint

Presentations-- questions for discussion

• General
  • How important are presentations in your major or field?
  • What types do you foresee giving?
  • What sorts of visual aids are commonly used by your professors/ bosses?
• PowerPoint:
  • what aspects of PP do you like? what aspects do you dislike?
  • what misuses of the program have you seen?
  • what effective uses of it have you seen?
  • what are Tufte's main complaints about the program? To what extent (if at all) do you agree with him?

mock presentation activity (part 1)

presentation outlines (for project 2) due

mock presentation activity (part 2)

presentation outlines due for peer-review

• peer-review sheet