PE9_Keynote

I chose to watch and complete the Lynda.com instructional videos for Keynote Essentials, instructed by Craig Syverson.

Going with the theme of this week that I have been working on, I decided to continue on my quest to build a decent presentation.  As a former PC user (and I say that loosely, as I still love my PC) I grew to be extremely proficient in PowerPoint, as I have used the program since middle and high school.  When working on presentation for work, I find that most of the time (since I got my Mac for work) I end up creating them on the fly, and therefore don’t have time to really play with Keynote and make the presentation interesting and creative like in PowerPoint, so I often just stick with what I know.  I have dabbled in Keynote, but I say this knowing that my slides are extremely elementary as there are not any transitions nor are their movements to the slides. 

This being said, I am excited to start working with Keynote to become a bit more knowledgeable with the program, as my boss loves it, and works to create department meetings with it.  The transitions that I have seen Keynote able to work with are awesome, and the features and graphics, like all other Apple products tend to be outstanding, so this tutorial was extremely interesting to me, and the instructor Syverson was very helpful in keep pace but keeping the presentation slow enough to work with as well. 

Syverson developed the instructional clips to explain basic layout as well as elaborating on tables, charts, graphics, and even included multimedia files for more interesting presentations as it can become interactive. 

I started the presentation (which easily enough began the same way using PowerPoint) by adding slides and moving titles around to help build the presentation that I wanted.  I found a few graphics from the web and grabbed a few screenshots from my computer and followed through with content.  Once I was able to complete the basics of the presentation, I started adding transitions to the headlines and text throughout each slide.  I also began to work out the transitions between each slide so that the presentation was innovative and stimulating for my audience.  I wanted to make sure that it wasn’t too busy, but that the presentation had enough creativity to it that it kept my audience intrigued and listening so that they understood the content of the presentation and didn’t tune me out. 

I had to create a presentation for work about Supercoursers and decided that I would take on this undertaking using Keynote…YIKES!