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A guide to organizing the information and presentation medium
- The beginning of any interactive product.
- Clarify communication goals.
- Arrange content into a design that serves these goals.
- Create a flowchart
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| Objectives |
What is the presentation?
Begin the process by writing down exact goal(s) for this presentation. This will be useful while you get side tracked looking for great ideas, graphics, sounds, videos etc. |
| Audience |
Define the specific audience for this presentation. You may need to ask some questions of your audience about how much they know already and what they want to learn.
Write down the information the audience needs to know. This will help you with your preliminary design. |
| Information Maps |
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| Plan |
Decide on a medium for delivery. The type of software used to make the presentation will decide for you how much interactivity and multimedia you can add to your presentation. A presentation on the Internet has limitations of sound and video. A presentation in Hyperstudio has limitations in how many people can be reached. Presentation software (PowerPoint, ClarisWorks Slideshow, Corel Presentation) is limited in the number of people reached and in the amount of interactivity and navigation.
Research and list the resources for the content of the presentation
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| Organize |
Computer screens are better suited to showing concise chunks of information. Very long web pages are disorienting because the user has to scroll long distances and remember what was off-screen. Organize your information into short categories. |
| Flow Charts |
How you arrange the content determines how easy it is to get to every piece of information. The simplest way to plan and view this flow of information is to draw a flowchart to show how the information will be mapped. |
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