Thursday, March 22, 2012

Know Your Audience

This is about someone who is giving a presentation about their comic book collection to an art class at a local community college. It explains that no matter if you are writing-a presentation, report, letter, or a memo, you need to know the needs of the particular audience. You need to find out who your audience will be and the types of questions they may ask. Also be sure that you leave enough time for questions at the end of your presentation.
·         Who will read or see this piece of writing
·         What do I want them to know
·         What background do they bring
·         What do I want this piece of writing or presentation to accomplish
It is good to understand your audience because you don’t want to bore them and you wan to be sure you give the information in a way they understand.

Monday, March 12, 2012

presentation skills

Microsoft Presentation software can be used to present information in a classroom setting. Businesses use power point to provide information to a variety of audiences. Power point can help give you a professional look that is well organized, focused, and engaging. That will help you give a great impression to your audience. Presentation software can be used to report, educate, and explain. Companies use presentations software to educate and train their employees. Power point allows you to illustrate presentations with charts, tables, text, diagram, and pictures. These are the things you should do to be sure your presentation is effective in the workplace: identify audience, keep text brief and to the point, use attractive color schemes, use animation sparingly, rehearse your presentation, revise it, speak clearly, and to your audience do not just read the slides.

1. Evaluate:
Postsecondary teacher:
• Give instructions
• Give lessons
• Give assignments
2. Medical assistants will have the greatest number of members in 2014.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Friday, February 10, 2012

Unit 4-Lesson 1 Introduction to Charts: Choosing the Right Graph


There are four different graphs we can create in Excel. One is a bar graph, it is the most common type of graph, and another name for it is column charts. The purpose of the bar graph is to show the amounts or the number of times a value occurs. Second is the line graph. Line graphs are used to plot changes in data over time, an example would be monthly temperature changes. The data points in line graphs represent the changes in your data. The third graph is a scatter plot, which shows the trends in data; when you have large numbers of data points it is most useful. In scatter plots, if the best fit line increases, it is a positive correlation, if the best fit line decreases, then it is a negative correlation in the graph. Pie charts are used to show a percentage of particular items that represents a data series, and another name for pie charts is circle graphs. The last graph is a pie chart; every data values would add up to 100%. Unlike other graphs and charts, pie charts don’t use horizontal or vertical axes to plot points.