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The 7yo one has to give a presentation on nocturnal animals, and they are allowed to use powerpoint. She's thrown herself into it with gusto, and to be honest the results are better than some I've sat through at work.
Lots of pictures, bullet points, finishing with a thank you slide with a cute fox waving byebye. Dead proud, I've hardly had to help at all.
Watching her type is agonising though 🙂
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She has already exceeded my level
I've been to some presentations that may as well have been composed by a 7 year old. Content of the speaking and design...
I swear that touch typing is the most useful skill I acquired in my entire education (learnt whilst recuperating from an op just after graduating...). Get her onto it young!
For the real pro touch get her to publish her powerpoint slides through [url= https://prezi.com/ ]Prezi[/url] it makes even my poor slides look properly slick
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I learned to type quickly on msn back in the day chatting to girls, had to just to get a word in edgeways!
I properly taught myself to touch type in uni by taking all the letters off my keyboard, a little extreme perhaps but certainly effective.
Re Prezi - it's actually more endearing in its crude form I think. Powerpoint itself keeps trying to give her formatting and style tips as she splatters cute pictures of foxes all over everything 🙂
Gud Skilz.
Stand her in good stead when she becomes a middle manager of some Uber Corp.
Gotta love kids these days, I sit in awe at my 10yr old nephew playing on his iPad whilst simultaneously kicking his little brother.. 😆
Don't use prezi, I've yet to see a presentation it has made better.
Cute waving foxes though...
She just did a practice run through on the big telly. Computer wouldn't connect to the display properly. She had to stand there looking sheepish whilst I farted about with it for the authentic powerpoint experience 😆
I learned to type quickly on msn back in the day chatting to girls, had to just to get a word in edgeways!
I've never really thought about where my (mediocre) typing skills come from but I think you've just nailed it.
Good skills molgrips little one!
For real style points, sway.com
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PowerPoint gets the blame for so many bad presenters, prezi is where bad presenters go to deny
Needs a little cute fox as the bullet point, and each one should rush in from a different direction 🙂
^^ Thats better than some Oxbridge intake Grads we have here, now.. sitting over there ... drinking coffee ... texting their new Girlfriends no doubt...when they really should be .....
PowerPoint gets the blame for so many bad presenters, prezi is where bad presenters go to deny
A couple of jobs ago, I had a middle manager who used every Powerpoint trick in the book to try and hide the fact she didn't have a clue about what she was presenting.
Or conversely, she did know what she was doing but she knew the workforce wouldn't like it so tried to hide the message behind whizzy graphics.
Picked up an immediate dislike of Powerpoint at that moment although I have to admit I've used it more recently and as a work tool it can b quite useful.
I wouldn't be allowed to use cute fox pictures though. 🙁
Say what you're gonna say....
Say it.....
Say what you've said.....
Dogs roll in Fox poo. She can use that if she wants.... 😀
She's keeping it short. Which is merciful, because each 7yo kid is going to have to sit through 20-odd presentations on the trot, which would be tough enough for an adult. Even worse, according to the parents' chat most of them apparently are about foxes.