PowerPoint tips, please

[Mendalla]

(slight aside ...) my mate & I are attending a morning lecture series ... attended predominantly by retired folks. Speakers are usually great, but the organization needs a new 'tech guy'! I think he's a volunteer. It's been painful lately - as we (the large audience) and the speaker wait, and wait, and wait some more while he does his best to coax the powerpoint system, the projector & mike systems into operation. Seems often to be a problem of compatibility between systems, painful ... and three weeks in to this series doesn't seem to be improving! (okay of end this - thanks for listening - back on topic!)

I've seen this in various organizations, including my church. I help out at times with setting up computers for presentations and the like since I've got the skills for some of it, but the sound system is still a bit of an arcane mystery to me.

 

[Pinga]

It is much easier to have a Standard setup at the church and then have folks copy the presentation to you

 

[mgagnonlv]

The joys of modern life...

A mere few years ago, paper copies would have been distributed around. It means the writer needs to finish earlier and the secretary has to print the documents, but then it's very low key during the service. Now the presenter can finish their Powerpoint presentation a few minutes before the event and a few trees are saved, but the technological stress happens live during the event. Back then, people could fumble with the printer and nobody would notice. Now everyone notices.

In a perfect world, I would love to have equipment permanently installed in the church: computer with Powerpoint, LibreOffice and whatever software is often used, projector or TVs, speakers, etc. The presenter would either simply bring in their USB key with their presentation, or plug in their own computer.

But alas, I'm dreaming. In the real world, I usually end up bringing in the entire setup via public transit. At least, I know everything works well together.

 

[Luce NDs]

The joys of modern life...

A mere few years ago, paper copies would have been distributed around. It means the writer needs to finish earlier and the secretary has to print the documents, but then it's very low key during the service. Now the presenter can finish their Powerpoint presentation a few minutes before the event and a few trees are saved, but the technological stress happens live during the event. Back then, people could fumble with the printer and nobody would notice. Now everyone notices.

In a perfect world, I would love to have equipment permanently installed in the church: computer with Powerpoint, LibreOffice and whatever software is often used, projector or TVs, speakers, etc. The presenter would either simply bring in their USB key with their presentation, or plug in their own computer.

But alas, I'm dreaming. In the real world, I usually end up bringing in the entire setup via public transit. At least, I know everything works well together.

If you know it well ...

Some personalities still believe in not-knowing is best ... for reasons of sacred secrecy that is something inquisitive ... the why is thus ongoing as is Y's!

 

[BetteTheRed]

The joys of modern life...

A mere few years ago, paper copies would have been distributed around. It means the writer needs to finish earlier and the secretary has to print the documents, but then it's very low key during the service. Now the presenter can finish their Powerpoint presentation a few minutes before the event and a few trees are saved, but the technological stress happens live during the event. Back then, people could fumble with the printer and nobody would notice. Now everyone notices.

In a perfect world, I would love to have equipment permanently installed in the church: computer with Powerpoint, LibreOffice and whatever software is often used, projector or TVs, speakers, etc. The presenter would either simply bring in their USB key with their presentation, or plug in their own computer.

But alas, I'm dreaming. In the real world, I usually end up bringing in the entire setup via public transit. At least, I know everything works well together.

We're pretty sophisticated when it comes to presentation abilities, in the sanctuary anyway.

Because we have three people who prepare the weekly slides, on a rotation, we need common templates, a source for all of the music copyright info, and a common place to store files. We make extensive use of Dropbox for this purpose. It's particularly handy if you're the Sunday morning operator, to see when the presentation files have hit Dropbox, and check them before you're live. I occasionally pick up typos; more importantly, I sometimes have questions about the exact moment the button is to be pushed on "play" for imbedded music/video, etc.

 

[Luce NDs]

Be brief ... incite questions ... sort of intellectual under ware ...

 

[Jaebius]

Many of you may know this already - but I just discovered it yesterday and I feel it's pretty kewl - I can use my own photo [o] as the background image on slides.

 

[Luce NDs]

A self envisioned attribute of a flash?

 

[BetteTheRed]

Many of you may know this already - but I just discovered it yesterday and I feel it's pretty kewl - I can use my own photo [o] as the background image on slides.

I cannot imagine a single instance, except perhaps for your funeral, when this would be a useful thing to know how to do. Using a photo as a watermark, however, can be a useful function; pale shadow of a paper crane on a Japanese-themed slideshow, etc.

 

[Jaebius]

I cannot imagine a single instance, except perhaps for your funeral, when this would be a useful thing to know how to do. Using a photo as a watermark, however, can be a useful function; pale shadow of a paper crane on a Japanese-themed slideshow, etc.

That also sounds kewl Bette. I'll be using a photo [o] of flowers ¥ from Yobo's store as the background on my slides for my Pastoral Care presentation in seminary in May.

 

[BetteTheRed]

That also sounds kewl Bette. I'll be using a photo [o] of flowers ¥ from Yobo's store as the background on my slides for my Pastoral Care presentation in seminary in May.

Much more comforting than your face, I'd suggest. (Grammar: why it's important to use "a" photo rather than "my" photo...)

 

[Jaebius]

Much more comforting than your face, I'd suggest. (Grammar: why it's important to use "a" photo rather than "my" photo...)

*chuckle*

It's my photo [o] as in I own the photo.

 

[Luce NDs]

Extreme example of polity in facetiae ... one question is IT a booty or one ugly disposition as displaced from the virtual icon?

 

[ashleysummer]

By accident I've recently come across these PowerPoint tips - bestspeechhelp.com/tips . Maybe, you'll find them useful too! These tips helped me a lot to prepare a top-class annual report powerpoint presentation.