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Effective Collaboration and Presentation Tools Overview

Join Dr. Alicia Schatteman's presentation on August 16, 2013, to explore essential collaboration and presentation tools. Discover how to utilize Google products, including Google Drive for cloud file sharing, Google Groups for discussions, and Google+ Hangouts for live video calls. Learn about Blackboard for managing coursework, checking grades, and participating in sessions. Enhance your presentations with NIU's PowerPoint templates, visual aids, and best practices for effective slide layouts. Master timing and engagement techniques for impactful presentations.

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Effective Collaboration and Presentation Tools Overview

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  1. Collaboration & PresentationsIT Orientation Dr. Alicia Schatteman August 16, 2013

  2. Agenda Items

  3. Google • All the Google products you have access to: • http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/products/ • Most often will use “Home and Office” and “Social” • Available on your desktop/laptop or mobile device • Free

  4. Google Drive • Can create and share files in the Cloud • Can access anywhere • Share files for group projects • Free

  5. Google Groups • Discussions in one place • Rich-text editing • Photos and automatic translations

  6. Google+ Hangouts • Find people • Know if they read your messages • Live video call with up to 10 friends • Start a voice call from your computer. • Use on all devices

  7. Blackboard • Who has used Blackboard or another course management system? • http://www.blackboard.niu.edu/blackboard/ • Help for students: http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/students/index.shtml

  8. What you can do: • Checking Your Grades • Discussion Board Thread • Wiki Page • Submitting an Assignment • Submitting a SafeAssignment • Accessing Groups • Participating in a Blackboard Collaborate Session

  9. Log in at: https://webcourses.niu.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp • View courses (if they are available) • Tabs at the top are customizable by the instructor so may not all be the same • Discussion Board (everyone can see, organized by thread) • My Grades (if instructors use this function)

  10. Course Tools • Blackboard Collaborate: check your email and log in to the collaborate session

  11. PowerPoint • NIU PPT Templates: • http://www.niu.edu/marketing/resources/#ppt • PPT Templates, Website Templates, Poster templates: http://www.niu.edu/graphicstandards/templates/index.shtml • Facebook Cover Photos, Screensavers & Wallpaper http://www.niu.edu/extras/ • NIU Logo Downloads: http://www.niu.edu/graphicstandards/logos/logo_downloads.shtml

  12. Visual Aids • Visuals are powerful • Clip art or your own photos • Don’t need to write everything

  13. Slide Layout • Play with the slide layout for best visual presentation • Keep font size readable: 28+ font • We read and look left to right so put important things on the left

  14. Links • Can embed the link NIU • Can write the link out: www.niu.edu • Create a QR Code:

  15. Tables and Charts • Cut and paste directly from Excel or Word • Cut and paste a table from a JPEG TABLE 1: Grades FIGURE 1: Revenue

  16. Videos • Embed a video in the presentation, no lost files, no Internet access needed • Link to an online video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugFIHHom1NU&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLsRNoUx8w3rMHoQXKr3AKe6TljQHp6M0S or without showing the URL

  17. Timing • Plan for 1 minute of presentation per slide • 10 minute presentation, roughly no more than 10 slides • Under “slide show” tab, if you click on “rehearse timings” you can rehearse saying your presentation to meet required length

  18. Presentations • Don’t need sounds, scrolling words • Slides are not meant to be read (face the audience not the screen) • Slides should be visual cues, use notes section • Have printed copy (see print function) to use if technical issues or with notes • Under “Review” tab, select “start inking” to highlight

  19. Handouts • Can create handouts of varying styles (three up with space to write for example) • See print function

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