
Schedule of Seminars and Events
Here is a tentative schedule of seminars and topics. All times and topics subject to change.
Monday |
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8:00am |
Breakfast for all patrons |
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8:30 |
The Rooms in your PowerPoint House: The many perspectives on the community that we all call home (Jim Endicott) |
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Tracks |
Tools and
Techniques |
Design
and Decor |
eLearning |
9:45 |
Oh, the Pain! Why does PowerPoint have such a bad reputation, who is to blame, and how can you help fix it? (Altman) |
Visual Thinking Workshop: Turn words into pictures and turn your presentations loose. (Nancy Duarte) |
Instructional Design Standards: Best practices for those who use PowerPoint to teach. (Carmen Taran) |
10:45 |
Mid-morning break |
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11:15 |
Thematically Speaking: Version 2007 brings a new word to the table, Themes, and with it, a new capability. (Echo Swinford) |
Graphic Secrets for Presenters: Learn how to turn the images you have into the imagery you need. (Lesa King) |
Soup to Nuts: An online tutorial created entirely with PowerPoint. (Altman) |
12:15pm |
Lunch for all patrons, included with registration. Near the end of lunch, the now-famous Prize Train will make its first stop at the conference. |
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2:00 |
Animation in the Afternoon: This session is for all patrons. Seat belts are optional but recommended, as we promise to leave your jaw on the floor with the effects that we describe (Terberg) |
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3:00 |
Afternoon break |
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3:30 |
TBA |
Makeovers...Live: No rehearsal, no prep— you give our makeover maven a file and she critiques it almost on the spot. (Terberg) |
Interface design: A good training module is more than just a pretty face. (Taran) |
NOTE: The Help Center opens at 8:00am, remains open until 4:30pm, and then often reopens into the evening and night. |
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4:30 |
The PowerPoint Live Trivia Contest. You won't want to miss this — we even close the Help Center for it... |
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6:30pm |
Group dinner activities TBA |
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9:00pm |
The Late-Night Guru Session. Come back from dinner and join Microsoft’s Ric Bretschneider for a free-wheeling hour (or four) of discussion about any and all matters PowerPoint. |
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Tuesday |
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8:00am |
Breakfast for all patrons |
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8:30 |
Tapping Into Your Natural-Born Storyteller: Appealing to the emotional and analytical needs of an audience (Duarte) |
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9:45 |
In Search of Chart Heaven: Where facts and figures go to thrive. (Swinford) |
Picture Placeholders in Version 2007: This sleeper feature could be a designer's dream. (Terberg) |
Communicating in Symbol: Don't let equations and formulae ruin your day! (Bob Mathews) |
10:45 |
Mid-morning break: PPTLive Expo begins, and stays open all day. |
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11:15 |
Thematically Speaking: Part II of our exploration of Version 2007’s strongest new feature. (Swinford) |
Achieving Absence of Ugliness: Achieving beautiful is often too much to ask. Fortunately, it is not always required. (Altman) |
An eL Faceoff: Our partners come together to show how well they can take training to the Web. |
| 11:15 | A Digital Photography Field Trip: Your chance to tour picturesque San Diego with a professional. (Flohr) |
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12:15pm |
Lunch for all patrons. Expo continues through lunch, and the Prize Train makes its usual stop at 1:55pm. |
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2:00 |
TBA |
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3:00 |
Afternoon break. Expo open. |
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3:30 |
Surviving Version Hell: What to do when you and your two co-workers use four different flavors of PowerPoint. (Geetesh Bajaj) |
Storytelling to the Power of X: Creating effective messages to Generation X and Y provides unique challenges (Scott Schwertly) |
TBA |
4:30 |
The PPTLive Expo continues until 5:00pm, with prize drawings every 15 minutes. |
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6:30pm |
Margarita Party in San Diego’s Old Town |
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Wednesday |
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8:30 |
Live from Osaka...Garr Reynolds, author of Presentation Zen. |
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9:45 |
Mastering Masters: If there is one feature that all users should understand, it’s slide masters. (Swinford) |
Secrets of Web-based presentations: Do you need to design differently for the Web? You bet you do! (Dave Paradi) |
Now Speaking: Creating effective narration for PowerPoint-based instruction (Taran) |
10:45 |
Mid-morning break |
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11:15 |
Slideshare and You Tube: New destinations for presentation content. (Tom Bunzel) |
Real-World Image Editing: You, your presentations, and Photoshop. (Flohr) |
TBA |
12:15pm |
Lunch, on your own |
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2:00 |
Encore Performances: We will repeat two sessions from earlier in the conference. You vote on which ones. |
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3:00 |
Afternoon break |
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3:30 |
The Five Killer Slides Comeptition |
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