Workshop 4

WOW Presentations with Technology

Workshop Description:

Today we are overloaded with many new ideas. This workshop will address the effect on learning using PowerPoint and other technologies. In the magician’s world we use “misdirection” to focus the audience away from where we want them to look or focus their attention. Is the way we use PowerPoint and other tools misdirecting us away from learning? By focusing on yet another bullet-ladened, “read-only” PowerPoint presentation are we “mis-directing” our learners? Ken Bellemare a frequent presenter at MADLaT will challenge some of your assumptions about whether some of the technology tools actually hinder learning. This will not be a “doom and gloom” session. Ken along with input from John Saremba (TheInformationGuy.Com) will share some new ideas on engaging your learners both face-to-face and at a distance.

Ken has created a WOW Presentations Workbook which you will have access to at the workshop to guide you to connect with your learners. Some of the topics that will be addressed are: What kinds of presentations do you deliver? How do you start and end your sessions? How to use the movie industry’s storyboarding approach to create stories in your teaching. He will help you to engage your learners with a variety of new simple PowerPoint slide designs.

You will not be bored! You will not be misdirected! You will come away with ”ready to use” templates to enhance your teaching. You’ll even learn to do a magic trick or two!

Presenter: Ken Bellemare

Ken is a practical, hands-on educator who focused on what the learners need rather than what the teacher teaches. He views his job as an educator to help create a positive learning atmosphere for every learner to participate in his or her learning.

Participants at his sessions have always walked away with practical., ready-to-use techniques and learning activities.

In association with his colleague John Saremba (theinformationguy.com) he has ventured into new areas to engage learners.

In former sessions Ken has delivered from “Snore to Wow” in this session he will expose you to the “WOW of learning”

Ken is a trainer of educators, a presenter and a presentations coach. He uses magic, improve, radical PowerPoint and storytelling in his engaging, hands on presentations.

He is co-author of the book: Wizbangers – 101 Quick, Action-based Learning Activities for Presenters, Trainers and Teachers. He has recently completed WOW! Presentations Workbook and Self-Guide

John Saremba (theinformationguy.com) challenges the ways that technology is used in learning. He seeks new ways to engage learners with various forms of technology. He has recently ventured into the world of digital Storytelling and beyond. Many of John’s innovative ideas are demonstrated in this workshop.