Thursday, April 13, 2006
PowerPoint isn't Square...
PowerPoint doesn’t even have to be rectangular.
Sure, PowerPoint defaults to a landscape presentation, 10 x 7.5. But nothing and nobody says you have to present from within those particular dimensions.
So how about creating a PowerPoint Mandala? I am rather fond of the idea of preparing PowerPoint presentations within a circle -- and giving an audience a round performance. This can let your audience confront their own characterization of “being presented to”…at the exact moment that they are experiencing your show.
And here is something else to consider -- Psychologist Carl Jung encouraged patients to draw their visions not on a rectangular piece of paper, but from within a circle. Dr. Jung felt that drawing within a circle elicits images that correspond more closely to your inner self: your true feelings and thoughts. He felt that drawing this Mandala – Sanskrit for “center” - was therapeutic. And beyond drawing a Mandala, you can possibly even feel more centered and more quickly achieve your potential -- just by viewing the Mandala you create.
Give the non-conventional approach to presentations a try: download this Mandala.gif file with a transparent hole in the center. Place it over your standard 10x 7.5 PowerPoint presentation. Adjust your graphics and words.
What belongs in the circle? Which colors? Objects? Text? What items flow outside of the circle?
Play with it a bit. You might be astonished.
How can this particular creative approach make you a better presenter?
PowerPoint doesn’t even have to be rectangular.
Sure, PowerPoint defaults to a landscape presentation, 10 x 7.5. But nothing and nobody says you have to present from within those particular dimensions.
So how about creating a PowerPoint Mandala? I am rather fond of the idea of preparing PowerPoint presentations within a circle -- and giving an audience a round performance. This can let your audience confront their own characterization of “being presented to”…at the exact moment that they are experiencing your show.
And here is something else to consider -- Psychologist Carl Jung encouraged patients to draw their visions not on a rectangular piece of paper, but from within a circle. Dr. Jung felt that drawing within a circle elicits images that correspond more closely to your inner self: your true feelings and thoughts. He felt that drawing this Mandala – Sanskrit for “center” - was therapeutic. And beyond drawing a Mandala, you can possibly even feel more centered and more quickly achieve your potential -- just by viewing the Mandala you create.
Give the non-conventional approach to presentations a try: download this Mandala.gif file with a transparent hole in the center. Place it over your standard 10x 7.5 PowerPoint presentation. Adjust your graphics and words.
What belongs in the circle? Which colors? Objects? Text? What items flow outside of the circle?
Play with it a bit. You might be astonished.
How can this particular creative approach make you a better presenter?
Labels: PowerPoint Tricks
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