Introduction:
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What would you do if you had to make a
presentation to a group on a rather broad topic and you are not sure
exactly what they want to learn? One solution is to make a non-linear
PowerPoint presentation. A "non-linear" presentation gives the
presenter the option to "jump" over slides to specific groups of
slides. For example if you were doing a presentation on time
management, you might be prepared to discuss how to overcome
procrastination, different types of time management systems, how to
organize you work environment more effeciently, and balancing
priorities in life. You only have 30 minutes and don't have time to
discuss all these topics. You have a PowerPoint
presentation with 15 slides on each of the topics. At the front of the
presentation
is a slide that lists the four topics. When you start your presentation
you ask the audience which topic is of most interest to them. Based
upon
the response of the audience, you can then click your mouse on the
topic
they want and go straight to that group of slides. When you finish that
group of slides, you can "jump" back to the home slide and have the
group pick another
topic if time permits.
This
same
technique could be used if you want to sprinkle multiple choice
questions through a presentation. Periodically a slide with a question
appears with 3-4 choices. You click on the answer the audience gives
and that takes you to a slide with that answer and tells whether it is
correct of not. There is link back to your question slide. Or you could
prepare a Jeapardy type of game show presentation for review of
previosuly taught materials. In this lesson we will learn how to
prepare non-linear presentations.
With
tight
budgets, you may not want to make 120 copies of your slide presentation
to distribute at a meeting. A cost efficient way to make this
information available to the masses is to mount the presentation to the
Internet. We will also learn that today.
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Develop a non-linear interactive
PowerPoint presentation. 
