Chapter 2 Lesson 1

• Making Effective Multimedia Presentations

  1. Know the purpose of the presentation

  2. Know the audience

  3. Gather information

  4. Use a variety of resources such as textbooks, digital resources, and internet

  5. Do not forget to cite sources

  6. Organize the information

  7. Check technical issues such as contrast, design, color scheme, fonts, and number of contents per slide

  8. Be creative
• Multimedia presentations


  • Visually oriented (displayed on a monitor or projected onto a screen)
  • Allow users to use different modalities such as text, graphics, photographs, audio, video, and animation
• Computer-based presentations

  • Custom navigation (linking) between slides, to other media and to the internet
  • Can be made into hard copy printouts or transparencies
  • Can be uploaded to the Web
• Making Pecha Kucha Presentation

  1. Open the power point and select blank layout

  2. Ensure there are 20 blank slides

  3. Select all the slides, remove the check mark on the “on mouse click”, modify the transition period to 20 seconds

  4. Insert and resize images

  5. Practice narration and record it in the PPT
• Pecha Kucha is a 20-slide power point presentation which moves automatically to each succeeding slide every after 20 seconds
• Blogs are personal journal websites on which a user can type an entry and add images, videos, and links to other websites
• Effective ways of introducing a blog

  • Be short and direct
  • Ask a thought-provoking question
  • Ask a multiple-choice question
  • Share a shocking fact or statistic
  • Share something personal
  • Withhold a compelling piece of information
  • Refute conventional wisdom
  • Lead with a success story
  • Start with a reader’s question
  • Share a quote