Courtroom Preparation and Technology

Are all of the concepts from session 1 clear, as well as the concepts from session 2?

Review of session 1 and 2, with some new information and resources:

Google Cheat Sheet

Review of Word: tables, styles

Review of Excel: spreadsheet exercise

1. Storyboarding
2. Create your own style and applying it consistently
3. The importance of handouts and options for printing. What is the relevance of information density to courtroom presentations?
4. Use PowerPoint with a second video display
5. Animations and transitions: not an essential presentation technique
   Example: 7 Habits presentation

Death by PowerPoint (and how to fight it)

This is an example of a SlideShare presentation.

Learn more about Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Be able to work with digital images coming from the web, digital camera, or flatbed scanner and being placed in a print document, PowerPoint presentation, or web page.

1. Word; create a table-based document on your own.
2. Excel: enter a basic math formula; use an Excel function. Reference: Become an Excel Ninja.
3. PowerPoint image manipulation: resize, crop, transparent color, and color effects.
4. Copyright considerations for using images, video, and audio.

1. What is one development model for a successful technology presentation? What is the significance of content vs. structure vs. presentation in the context of communication project development?
2. How to publish a student web site at the University of Delaware.
   1. Set up a subdirectory on UD's network in which to save your page(s).
   2. Create your web page(s) on your desktop (local) computer.
   3. Publish your web page(s) by uploading (transferring) a copy of the web page(s) from your desktop (local) computer to UD's remote server (i.e., copland.udel.edu).
3. Alternative approach to web publishing, as completed during class session: publish a web page using Google Page Creator. A Google Gmail account is required to complete this exercise.

RSS in Plain English (3.5 minutes)

"Future" technologies available today

Skype

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