Re: [applekeynote] Macworld 2009

Hi Les, I am what's called a "Solar System Ambassador". I didn't come up with the name - honestly.

The program can be found here: http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/ambassador/

My efforts are to go into inner-city (ie tough) schools and present and discuss with kids:

1. What's happening in the world's space  programs,

2. Giving them a message of how needed they are if they can stick it out and stay in school, and

3. Give them ideas about possible interesting careers in Earth and Space science.

I figure that if I get to a few kids then it's been worthwhile.

(By the way, I'm in the DC area, so if any member would like me to give a workshop, please let me know).

Anyway, I use keynote exclusively to give my presentations.

Obviously, the subject matter is huge and I can only get a few key messages.

So I've had to break down my presentations into chunks.

Also , I've learned that kids don't like too much text. They want to see images and video.

So I have several keynote chunks accordingly.

I also produce a newsletter, am building a website, and have had to produce DVDs.

All of which came directly from KN.

If any of this material - as well as my experiences in presenting KN-based learning sessions would be useful, please let me know. I can send you some of my work.

David

On Aug 5, 2008, at 3:41 AM, Les wrote:

Hi all,

As some on this list may know, I gave a presentation at this year's Macworld
called "Presentation Magic with Keynote". It was very much focussed on how
to improve presentation giving using the magic of Keynote, rather than a
"how to" with Keynote, like a "missing manual".

About 250 attended and they provided IDG who manages the Expo and Convention
with about 50 evaluations.

Those evaluations contained sufficient positive feedback for the directors
of Macworld to invite me back to Macworld 2009, and to expand my 75"
presentation in the Users Conference, to a 2 day PowerTools workshop,
emphasising both presentation giving and the magic of Keynote.

IOW, while this year's presentation was the diagnostic workshop on why most
presentations you see at conferences are so disengaging, next year's is a
review of the diagnosis plus the intervention.

Now I seek you assistance: When it comes to Keynote and learning how to use
it, what are the things you'd like to see covered? Do you have any special
sequence of slides you'd like to share (credit where credit is due) which
particularly illustrates how a solution was found using Keynote, or just
some special effects or story telling you're particularly proud of?

I will also be "hitting on" some of the list's professional developers for
support and highlighting the add-ons which make Keynote the great
communication tool that it is.

I have about 2 weeks to get some firm guidelines to IDG for pre-publicity,
and I head for Toronto and NYC next week (let me know if you'd like to catch
up, or even have me do a little presentation for your
group/workplace/institute).

Many thanks in advance to those who can assist... One of the things I will
be doing is including a set of slides about Keynote resources and this list
will be one of the them.

Best regards

Les

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