Cedar Point Power Point

It has to be exactly 10 slides?

I HATE Six Flags said:
Also, my first slide is going to Cedar Point obiously, but what picture should I put?

I'm guessing you mean getting to Cedar Point, right? What about using this picture?
http://www.cedarpoint.com/_upload/trip_planning/2006map.gif

I have a good picture of Maxair that I'll try to get uploaded soon.

Screamomatic said:
It has to be exactly 10 slides?

No it can be up to 14 or 15. I'm going to take out the Soak City and Challenge Park info since I don't know a whole lot about those two.

Well, if you're going for the history thing, you could mention that originally CP was a resort, with the primary attractions being the beach and picnic areas, and a nice stay in the Breakers. Access was primarily by boat, and eventually an "amusement circle" was created on the boardwalk area that led from the pier (Marina area) past the lagoons, east to the beach. If you have a slide of the park map, you can see it easily, and the Colliseum (arcade) is one of the original buildings still left from the turn of the century.

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Nice avatar, peacetrain!

MrScott

Hey DBCP do you mind if I could use a couple of your photos?

Haha, I did a project just like this two years ago. Mine ended up being 35 slides long, 20 more than the recommended amount :)

I just did basically the same thing as what people are saying, with the history etc. I kind of skimmed the last page, so sorry if what I say has already been suggested. CP's history page is great for that kind of info, and I also got a great book that helped for some more generalistic coaster information. It's called Roller Coasters: A Thrill-Seeker's Guide to the Ultimate Scream Machines by Robert Coker. His website can't be beat either as far as info goes. His Ride Reviews are my favorite, and some (like the Power Tower) contain a LOT more additional information that could help your report (did you know that the Space Shot side is just about as high as S&S will build them, but the Turbo Drop style has no limit?).

Finally, make sure you check out PB's selection of photos and info and shtuff. My project was actually how I found this site (do a google search of cedar point pictures and information :) ).

Above all, have fun with it! I had a great time doing mine, and I actually got 120% on it for "having extra enthusiasm and loving the topic" or something like that. Good Luck!!

Yeah the website is very good. Thank you. So I think I am for sure going to make my slides the following. 1. TITLE 2. Quick Facts 3-7. History 8. TTD 9. MF. 10-12 Other Rides. 13. Halloweekends

Any suggestions or slides I should put in/take out to make it better?
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Get your hands on Cedar Point: the Queen of American Watering Places. It is such a great book and you will learn some neat stuff. I borrowed it from the library last year and used it for a CP essay that I wrote last year for french. I ended up buying the book from ebay around Christmas last year. I love it.

Also Gomez do you mind if I use some of your photos?

I would stick Halloweekends in the middle, like "Seasons of CP" (i.e. opening day, holidays, best days to visit, Halloweekends, etc.), and finish with the coasters. Your last slide could be a "What's Coming for 2007...?" with an out of focus mystery picture, or a 'Shopped frankencoaster. Always end with a zinger that leaves 'em wanting more!

Why, thank you Mr. Scott! So kind of you to notice. There's just something magical about the woodies, even though I'm an MF kind of gal...
;)

I have some general presentation tips...

1) A PowerPoint show is not a presentation.

2) On any given slide, less is usually more.

3) Any visual aid, including a PowerPoint slide, should support your message. It should not *be* your message.

4) It is better to do a whole lot of simple slides than to do a few complicated ones.

5) When you present, don't read your slides.

6) Your audience is there to see you, not your slides!

7) In general, PowerPoint is designed to make it very easy for you to do a bad presentation. Simply use their templates and clip-art, and you'll have them snoozing in no time at all.

8) If you are lucky enough to be working in OS-X, you might want to play around with Keynote as an alternative to PowerPoint. :)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
(there is an example of my kind of presentation available on my web site.)

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Ride Man's # 7 is very important. Clip-Art is your friend and an online resourse may be found within the program itself. I don't have the program at home, but I remember correctly, clip-art may be found under "insert" on the toolbar. Just answer yes to all of the questions it may ask you and then search for what you want. You will need an online connection for this.

MrScott

Yeah, then add in the car-crash sound effect with the sliding bullet points and you can learn what "Death by PowerPoint" really means.

Clip art is useful, but for the most part, every piece of good clip art in Microsoft's library has been used a million times already.

Go get good photos. Show people things they have never seen before, or at least things they want to look at.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

I have already chosesn most of my pictures for the power point so far. I don't go back to school till the 24th.

Take Dave's advice seriously. My presentation that I mentioned earlier was a good example. The first couple slides were the standard "pic on one side, text on the other" layout (talking about history), but near the end (where I started talking about what I really knew and loved, the modern coasters) each slide was just one or two pictures. The entire informational part of the presentation was given orally.

If you are really into the subject you shouldn't even need notecards or anything, I just spoke from what I knew and stuff and let the talking flow. It turned out reeally good in my opinion. If you're interested I might be able to upload it somewhere, it had some good shots on it.

I HATE Six Flags said:
Hey DBCP do you mind if I could use a couple of your photos?

Check your messages. :)

Oh, RideMan. Those of us who are fortunate to live with OS X and Keynote are the enlightened. Yes, everyone loves our presentations, and people always want to know what software we used, but in the public schools (at all levels) they preach the gospel of PowerPoint, and the more doodads and gimcracks the better.

I've actually had teachers compliment students for the distracting noises and stupid animations. One high school teacher even gave her class a rubric requiring a minimum of 10 animated gifs.

I HATE Six Flags, lots of good advice here. I would love to see what you come up with when you're done! Can you post it or link it?

That's true, I suppose. Worst of all, PowerPoint was developed, and is now being taught, by computer people, not by communications people.

I've often thought that we should offer a course here in how to do great presentations. The problem is that we *do* offer such a course, and it is called "UC 120 - Oral Communication". But the people who really need to take it end up blowing it off. We don't recapture those people when they need to learn how to do a *good* PowerPoint show.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.