Overview: For our service learning project for ChattahoocheeNOW each member of our group is responsible for turning Ryan Gravel’s  Vision 53 report into four  different kinds of presentations, each targeted at a different audience.

Jack O’Hara: I am in charge of making a standard long (about 25 minutes) presentation of Vision 53. I have chosen to do a PowerPoint slideshow and have added images and text from a pdf of the report using the image editor GIMP along with images from creative commons. As per client request the main audience of this presentation will be possible funders for the project, and I have tailored the information in my presentation accordingly. Presently, I am nearly complete with a first working draft. I am also the main point of contact between our team and our client ChattahocheeNOW, specifically Jodi Mansbach. For this role I have been responsible for writing emails to Jodi and have met with her in person at her office.

Treasure Jones: Treasure is tasked with turning Vision 53 into a short “elevator” pitch type presentation of about five or less minutes. She is working on two versions of this presentation that our client can choose from: a PowerPoint and a Prezi presentation. The main audience for her presentation will be, like the longer presentation,  possible funders for Vision 53.

Julia Mezzacapo: Julia is in charge of making a Pecha Kucha style creative presentation out of Vision 53. As per Pecha Kucha rules, her presentation will have 20 slides, each shown for 20 seconds that move automatically as they are spoken over. So far we have collaborated to learn how to use the image cropping feature of GIMP so she can include pictures from Vision 53 in the presentation. The main audience of her presentation will be the general public and more specifically recreational enthusiasts.

Ana Settles: Ana is charged with making a slideshow of Vision 53 that could be viewed asynchronously on ChattahoocheeNOW’s main website. After consulting with the client, part or all of her presentation will be in a video format. The main audience of her presentation will be, like the Pecha Kucha, the general public and more specifically recreational enthusiasts.

The scope of work:

For our client deliverable we are turning Vision 53 (a 53 page long report on encouraging Atlanta to get connected to the Chattahoochee river) into four different types of presentations. Each member of our group is in charge of one type of presentation. I am in charge of making a standard 20-25 minute presentation for a general audience, but with a focus on possible funders as per client request.
I have chosen to make a power point presentation of approximately 30-35 slides (although the client might want me to take out or add different slides for the final deliverable.) Content-wise I have put what i felt was the most important information in the slides, using the clients requests as a guide of course.
Draft of deliverable: (Link to Google slide of my part of the deliverable)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19m77IBWREfT82kga3aKKnF-e1IzhDHDWKbrTVMVHh_c/edit?usp=sharing

Here is the work that I have done so far on the deliverable. It is by no means finished. I have to complete working on the Map section and work on the text for all the slides. The hard part will be figuring out the visuals for the Map slides but I have made a template of how I will organize them visually with the Idea Map A and B slides. Getting the pictures in the power point was the most time consuming part, so now that I have all the pictures in there I just have to arrange them and fix the text which will not be as difficult. The impact and project slides for each Goal are complete except I have to figure out a way to deblur the Impact icons. I also want to add overview slides and just generally clean up the presentation.

Schedule of drafts: 

• Memo of Understanding (to client, cc Dr. Wharton, 11:59 pm, October 21st)
• Have a completed polished draft of my project by this weekend (October 22nd)
• Next week meet with Dr. Wharton to show/okay draft and then send draft to client  (sometime between the October 24th and 28th)
• Draft Service Learning Packet Deliverables (class time, November 10th and 15th)
• Presentation of final drafts for clients and peers: (During class on November 29th and December 1st)
• Final packets (emailed to client, cc Dr. Wharton):( 11:59 pm on December 2nd)

Here are the notes from the conference that I felt were very useful to me when working on the service learning project:

-Reminder: My project is to turn a Vision 53 (a report) into a power point-

Concerning Intro slides:

-Make sure to give an overview of the power point towards the beginning so people know how long to expect the presentation to be.

Concerning design colors:

-Keep the headings for each slide the same color for consistency’s sake (for this project all of the headings will be red)

Concerning representing information on the slides:

-the projects could be represented by images rather than textual descriptions. (I really liked this idea and have used images to show the projects for most of the slides)

-Cut off the text for the Impacts sections for each slide, have them represented by their icon (I did this but I also gave a very short sentence description of how each one is different.)

-Maybe put the Impact icons on one half of a slide and the project pictures on the other (This was a great idea and I think my slides came out very concise looking visually and information-wise because of it)

-Think about clustering your information, like info goes with like info and so on.

-Maybe put the map section after the Goal section or put a map in each goal section (I plan on doing a version of the power point both ways to see what way the client would prefer.)