Week
4 -- Feb. 28
graphic support; presentation media; video and web-based resources
* follow-up -- review document and presentation proposals.
* in-class preview -- survey graphic and media tools for document and presentation support.
* for next class -- 1) Read and review Mayfield 4 - 4.3.3.
2) If you don't have PowerPoint, access http://web.mit.edu/soffice/www/home.html for descriptions of StarOffice 5.2 and http://www.sun.com/staroffice/get.html for free downloads. (StarOffice 5.2 is a business suite with presentation software that can be converted to html.)
3) Access other oral presentation resources online at http://web.mit.edu/writing/Writing_Types/oral.html.
* assignment, as the first stage in preparing a two-minute presentation, emailed to jackk@mit.edu as well as posted to your alias folder by noon March 6 -- at least four StarOffice or PowerPoint graphics to be used as visual aids for a talk before a managerial audience on data or an intriguiging question. Prepare rough notes for a dry-run two-minute presentation in our next class, March 7. As a related activity, start planning and drafting your white paper / literature review for the same sort of audience.