Presentation Purpose
6.01 Understand business uses of
presentation software and
methods of distribution.
What is presentation software?
Presentation software is a program
used to create slide shows or
multimedia presentations.
 Multimedia means presenting data
in more than one medium, such as
combining text, graphics, animation,
video and sound.

6.01 Understand business uses of presentation software and methods of distribution.
Slide 2
To Use or Not to Use?
View the next five slides as an example of when
a multimedia presentation is not the best
method for delivering a message.
 What if President Lincoln had used Power Point
to deliver the Gettysburg Address?

– The next 5 slides are presented by permission of
Peter Norvig.
– For additional information, visit his website
http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/making.html
6.01 Understand business uses of presentation software and methods of distribution.
Slide 3
Gettysburg Cemetery
Dedication
Abraham Lincoln
Agenda
Met on battlefield (great)
 Dedicate portion of field - fitting!
 Unfinished work (great tasks)

6.01 Understand business uses of presentation software and methods of distribution.
Slide 5
Not on Agenda!
Dedicate
 Consecrate
 Hallow
(in narrow sense)
 Add or detract
 Note or remember what we say

6.01 Understand business uses of presentation software and methods of distribution.
Slide 6
Review of Key Objectives
& Critical Success Factors

What makes nation unique
• Conceived in Liberty
• Men are equal

Shared vision
• New birth of freedom
• Gov’t of/for/by the people
6.01 Understand business uses of presentation software and methods of distribution.
Slide 7
Organizational Overview
1
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0
New Nations
-87 Now
Years
6.01 Understand business uses of presentation software and methods of distribution.
Slide 8
Summary
New nation
 Civil war
 Dedicate field
 Dedicated to unfinished work
 New birth of freedom
 Government not perish

6.01 Understand business uses of presentation software and methods of distribution.
Slide 9
Now listen to the audio version

The Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on
this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated
to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are
engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or
any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We
are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to
dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for
those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It
is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a
larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we
cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead
who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor
power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long
remember what we say here, but it can never forget what
they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here
to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus
far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated
to the great task remaining before us--that from these
honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for
which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we
here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain,
that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom,
and that government of the people, by the people, for the
people shall not perish from the earth. -- Abraham Lincoln
Which method is better? Why?
6.01 Understand business uses of presentation software and methods of distribution.
Slide 10
Characteristics of
Inappropriate Content
 Content
is trivial or without a clear
purpose
 Content loses its meaning when
translated
 Content should be preserved in its
original form
6.01 Understand business uses of presentation software and methods of distribution.
Slide 11
Examples?

As a class, brainstorm other examples of
when presentation software is an
inappropriate method of information
distribution and communication
6.01 Understand business uses of presentation software and methods of distribution.
Slide 12
To Use or Not to Use
You guessed it!
 The next presentation will provide an
example of when presentation software is
appropriate as a means of communication.

6.01 Understand business uses of presentation software and methods of distribution.
Slide 13
Earthquakes in the
Pacific Northwest
Shaping the
Pacific
Northwest
The Nisqually Earthquake
February 28, 2001
6.8 magnitude
Source: http://nsmp.wr.usgs.gov/data_sets/20010228_1/
images/Seattle/PicS-19.jpg
Source: http://nsmp.wr.usgs.gov/data_sets/20010228_1/images/olympia/PicO-31.jpg
6.01 Understand business uses of presentation software and methods of distribution.
Slide 15
Mount St. Helens
Eruption May 18, 1980
Began with small earthquakes in March
5.1 earthquake in May before major
eruption
Sources: http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Imgs/Jpg/MSH/SlideSet/49.jpg
6.01
Understand business uses of presentation software and methods of distribution.
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Imgs/Jpg/MSH/SlideSet/19.jpg
Slide 16
Characteristics of
Appropriate Content

Educational
– To train, present information, emphasize key
points, or explain procedures

Persuasive
– To advertize or provoke action

Narrative,
– To broadcast messages, tell a story, or entertain
6.01 Understand business uses of presentation software and methods of distribution.
Slide 17
Examples?

As a class, brainstorm other examples of
when presentation software is an
inappropriate method of information
distribution and communication
6.01 Understand business uses of presentation software and methods of distribution.
Slide 18
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions…

One the decision has
been made to use
presentation software,
the next step is to
determine the best
method of delivery
6.01 Understand business uses of presentation software and methods of distribution.
Slide 19
The End
6.01 Understand business uses of presentation software and methods of distribution.
Slide 20