Week 6: Story Telling: Supercharging Through PowerPoint

I recently stumbled upon PowerPoint Tiktok and let me tell you, things are very different from your basic school PowerPoints.

There’s a whole different world of PowerPoints with active animations, engaging designs, and more clearly organized structure and transitions to better communicate your ideas.

The more I explore my interests and hobbies, storytelling seems to be a larger and larger focus.

When it comes to work, I work as a speech language pathologist aiming to help people communicate and express their competent selves. Troubleshooting ways to reveal their competency in understanding and communication is a central focus.

When I explored private work in accent modification, it similarly aimed to empower and encourage people to communicate with a focus on focusing on specific North American communication and how to match that style via your speech, mannerisms, and interactions.

In my hobbies, my interest in photography and videography are likewise about storytelling. About creating or designing a story with each curated captured moment a means to tell a story.

I’m finding that PowerPoint can likewise be a means to story tell. To present information effectively and in a way that resonates with the audience, similar to how communicating verbally or through pictures and video can do so.

So now, I’m partway through a SkillShare course - How to Make Engaging Presentations: Simple Hacks with Great Impact to learn how to make engaging presentations. You can check it out for yourself here.

I think the interesting thing about it is this is a new skill that builds upon a familiar program. Whereas I’ve previously been trying to do something completely brand new, this one holds some familiarity while likewise developing a completely new skill set. It’s moving from a beginner to an intermediate or expert level competency instead of brand spanking new noob to beginner.

Anyways, it’s super introspective the more I branch out as it’s better defining what I like and why I like it. I’m hoping that as I continue to explore my interests, it’ll always lead back to being a better story-teller, being a better communicator, and being an effective person in conveying how I feel and how I think to others in the most straight-forward way.