The PowerPoint Presentation: still not dead
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During my time at Rutgers, I have been both on the receiving and publishing end of several Microsoft PowerPoint slideshows (now called slide "decks" by the industry)
Long ago, the PowerPoint presentation commanded shock and awe in both boardrooms and classrooms alike. The rapid succession of slides, the animations, the colorful backgrounds and beautifully fonted headers.
These days, the only thing that a powerpoint usually inspires is a yawn and a signal for students and coworkers to open their laptops and begin scrolling through facebook timelines.
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So where have powerpoints fit into my college and professional experiences?
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The Team Project
Other times, PowerPoint presentations were used as the gradable submission which would accompany and support a team project completed over the course of a few weeks with relative strangers, chosen either at random or a hodge-podge of hopfully likeminded and similarly accademically burdened individuals.
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The Lone Wolf Slide Deck
Rarely in the communications major, we would be tasked with a presentation that would comprise a subject that we would research and analyze ourselves. I feel that this is the type of project that coorelates most closely to a business scenario. What savvy business manager is going to apply the resources of several full time employees to the creation of a microsoft-formatted document that is going to be shown internally to other managers? It is definitely more efficient to assign one person to this task
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Examples:
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One of the projects upon which I worked alone was a presentation to my Research in the Disciplines class which explained the modern and historical backdrop of the Jewish ethno-religious people. The presentation focused on the morphisism between the ancient Jewish people and the modern diaspora.
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You can view my presentation by clicking the icon to the right.
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Another slide deck I did was done on the Google Drive platform.
This google slideshow represents the creation of a prototype workshop
that would improve the Rutgers University student community. I, with
my team, developed workshops that would collaborate Rutgers services
in addition to created services that would put a premium on stress
awareness & reduction on campus.