Consider the PowerPoint presentation you submitted back in Module 1 for your Self-Assessment. Did these slides contain a wall of text and bullet point after bullet point?

“Your presentation is for the benefit of the audience. But boring an audience with bullet point after bullet point is of little benefit to them.”- Garr Reynolds

Consider the PowerPoint presentation you submitted back in Module 1 for your Self-Assessment. Did these slides contain a wall of text and bullet point after bullet point? In Module 5, you’ll have the opportunity to revise your slides based on your Module 5 Readings and Resources.
Step One – Checklist: In your Module 5 Readings, Videos, and Lessons, JesseDee shares five shocking slide presentation design mistakes we need to avoid. Make a checklist of all five shocking design mistakes, and carefully go through your Module 1 Self-Assessment slide presentation. Write down a) ways your previous presentation embodied these five shocking design mistakes and b) ways your presentation worked well.

Step Two – Revision: After creating your checklist, revise five of the slides you originally submitted for your Module 1 Self-Assessment. Revise your slides so that they do not make any of JesseDee’s shocking design mistakes. So that your classmates will be able to review your revised slides, be sure to export them into PPTX format to submit on the Discussion Forum.

Submit your Checklist and your 5 Revised Slides in PPTX format to the Discussion Forum. Be sure to post both items by the 4th day of the module week.

Original post requirements:
Create a slideshow using the program you are most comfortable with – Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, Google Slides, etc. You will build a slideshow addressing the following prompts:

After reviewing Module 1: Readings, Videos, and Lessons, what are the 3 most important take-aways you learned from Chapter 1 and Chapter 4 in The Art of Public Speaking?
What are the 3 most important take-aways you learned from reading Chapter 1 of Nancy Duarte’s Resonate and “How Technology Has Changed Public Speaking?”
A presenter should create engaging content – the message he or she delivers to the audience. Based on your previous experience, describe 3 important characteristics speech content that you find engaging. Share specific examples from speeches you’ve watched.
You may use as many slides as you need to explore these prompts.

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