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PowerPoint

PowerPoint is frequently misused, in that it's wrongly viewed by too many presenters as the be-all and the end-all of a presentation. They overload their slides with all the information that needs to be presented because, again, the PowerPoint is, they believe, the entire presentation. In the end, they have text-heavy slidesand usually way too many slideswhich only leads to a distracted audience that is busy reading instead of listening.

PowerPoint is but one part of a presentation.

Properly used, PowerPoint provides visual aids that enhance what the presenter is saying and helps draw the audience members in, so that they are listening even more intently.

PowerPoint also offers some great tools to visually represent a theme or convey a message that is hard to put into words. For example, in the "Constructing Futures" PowerPoints I've posted here, I used animation to show how an abandoned house was transformed through the program (slide 5).

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Jackson County COMBAT

This presentation has been given to high school students, but also parent groups and others. While the main focus is on gun violence, the PowerPoint also includes briefly some information about another "deadly threat," fentanyl. 

Gun Violence

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Jackson County COMBAT

This PowerPoint explains the purpose and objectives of the Striving To Reduce Violence In Neighborhoods (STRiVIN') initiative that COMBAT launched in 2015 to pool resources in areas with high crime rates.

STRiVIN' Initiative

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Jackson County

This PowerPoint was created as part of a presentation explaining how this one Jackson County program addresses three important issues: 1) vacant homes and the problems associated with them; 2) providing job training for former prison inmates; 3) helping the homeless.

Constructing Futures

Freelance

I created this PowerPoint as a freelancer for use by the Palestine Church in Kansas City to enhance a presentation explaining the restructuring of the church. The emphasis was on the pastor being overburdened with too many obligations.

Palestine Church

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