Session 4 was held from 2:00pm - 2:45pm.

Five concurrent events were held during Session 4.

1. Seven Types of Presentations: A Demo, and PowerPoint Visual Vocabulary Demo: Don Campbell

3. PowerPoint is Tyranny: Monoblog --> Dialog. Jay Cross

4. Hub, Spoke, Web Presentations: How Can We Get There?  Heyward Robinson

5. Biz on Facebook, LinkedIn: What's the Protocol?

6. Improv and Theatre Games with Frank... from The Henderson Group

Vocalization games as warm up: "Red Leather Yellow Leather" repeat continuously, slowly, with as much exaggerated articulation in the mouth muscles as possible, then accelerating. (We learned another funny sequence to repeat but I forgot it...) This is a good warm up to do just before having to make a presentation. Gets face muscles loosened and warmed up, as well as vocal chords, and your own personal comfort in hearing your voice being projected.

Played improv games that give you practice in thinking on your feet, trusting your instincts, shortening your reaction time, helping you to feel comfortable to move through space, using your full body to express your ideas, not just words. We played 1) a mirrored-gesture-vocalization passing game, 2) sentence-building game, 3) give-and-take stoy-building game.

Shared our greatest fears/concerns about performing while presenting, which included not having the right stories to share across generations, facing large audience numbers, fizzled punch-line delivery, or overcoming seemingly uninterested audience members (like at a staff meeting where some people have their noses buried in a laptop).

(Notes by Linda Chang)