Dr. Howe's Presentation on Presentations

best practices, do-s and don't-s, tips and tricks forfabulous and informative presentations

1.Know the Assignment Terms2.Know Your Audience3.Know Your Material4.Know Your Technology5.Practice

Know the Assignment Terms

1.Three minutes!2.Do not read from essay3.Share your picture4.Convey your thesis5.One or two points from your research6.Conclude7.Include name, title, works cited

Know Your Audience

1.Your peers2.What will interest your peers?

1.Do not read your essay2.Do not read your slides3.If you lose your way, knowing

the material helps!

Know Your Material

What Counts as “Technology”?

1.Room layout/limitations (Lee Reception Room)

2.Computer or digital technologies

3.White/Chalk boards4.Handouts5.Visual aids6.Questions7.Activities

A Note on PowerPoint Technology

1.Minimize, minimize, minimize!2.Use as a slide projector3.Project basic information only4.Project most significant info only5.Tips?

1.Practice

2.Practice

3.Practice

4.Practice

5.Practice

Dr. Howe's Presentation on Presentations:Eddie Adams' Siagon Execution (1968)

best practices, do-s and don't-s, tips and tricks forfabulous and informative presentations

Eddie Adams, Saigon Execution (1968). Newseum.

1968. The Tet Offensive, later understood to be the

turning point of the Vietnam War, had just taken place.

Promised a “citizen uprising” in favor of the US,which did not materialize,

public sentiment was turning rapidly against the conflict.

The US was no longer focused on winning the war,but on getting out of it.

“As public opinion shifted so did the image of the war in news magazine photos.”

--Michael Sherer, “Vietnam War Photos and Public Opinion” (391)

According to John Long, a news photograph is powerful because it captures

a moment.

This photograph helpedconvince Americans that the South Vietnamese and the US military were, as Andy Grundberg writes,

“doing more harm than good against an indigenous insurgency” sponsored by the North Vietnamese.

But...

what momentdoes this image

actually document?

The executioner, Brig. Gen. Loan, is captured at the moment he shot aViet Cong prisoner

who had murdered a military official, his wife, and his

six children.

Whatever our personal beliefs,it is important to put ourselves in others' shoes

before we judge another's actions.

Consider the context.

Do your research.

Be responsible readers of your world.

Eddie Adams felt the American news media used the image without clearly describing its context:

"[H]ow do you know you wouldn't have pulled that trigger

yourself? You have to put yourself in that situation…

It's a war.”

Consider the context. Do your research.

Be responsible readers of your world.

Works Cited

Adams, Eddie. Saigon Execution. Photograph. 1968. Newseum, Washington, DC.

Grundberg, Andy. "Eddie Adams, Journalist, 71; Showed Violence of Vietnam. " New York Times (1857-Current file) [New York, N.Y.] 20 Sep. 2004, B10. ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2005). ProQuest. Reinsch Library Marymount University, Arlington, VA. 24 Nov. 2008 <http://www.proquest.com.proxymu.wrlc.org/>.

Newseum. “1969 Spot News: Edward Adams, The Associated Press.” Newseum Online Exhibit. 24 Nov. 2008. <http://www.newseum.org/exhibits_th/exhibits/pulitzer_photos/>.

Sherer, Michael D. "Vietnam War Photos and Public Opinion :[1]. " Journalism Quarterly 66.2 (1989): 391-395,530. Humanities Module. ProQuest. Reinsch Library Marymount University, Arlington, VA. 24 Nov. 2008 <http://www.proquest.com.proxymu.wrlc.org/>.

Willbanks, James. “Winning the Battle, Losing the War.” The New York Times 5 March 2008, sec. A23. Lexis/Nexis Academic. Reinsch Library, Marymount University, Arlington, VA. 24 Nov. 2008. <http://www.lexisnexis.com.proxymu.wrlc.org/>.