Create presentation-Ignite
“Ignite” Presentation You will be applying for a Chicago Police Officer position using an “Ignite”
presentation to a “hiring committee/investors” (your classmates). The setting for this presentation can
be in the not so-distant future or far in the future. The choice is yours. Before you start your
presentation, you will inform the class what position you are applying for.
Your “Ignite Presentation” will be a PowerPoint that is made up of 14 visually effective slides. The first
slide will simply be a “title” slide. The 12 slides in between will automatically advance every 15 seconds
as you speak. Finally, your 14th slide will be your concluding (untimed last) slide, which appears when
your 3 minutes are up. To find out how to “time” your slides, you can do a google search or watch this
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86aLlGscaVM
How to create your IGNITE-Style presentation:
Step 1: Planning Why should they hire you? Why are you the best selection for this position? What
makes you so unique? Required salary? These are a few guiding questions as you plan the outline for
your presentation.
Step 2: Brainstorming Use your mind map or sketch to find a starting point. Then, start brainstorming all
the points you want to make to the “hiring committee” about why they should hire you.
Step 3: Grouping and Identifying the Core Put points together that fall under the same area so you can
see what points strong and which ones are need more substance.
Step 4: Storyboarding Start laying out all your points to tell “your story” on why you are the best
candidate for this position.
Step 5: Slides Find a sequence of slides to match what you are going to say. Gather photos, cartoons, or
images that speak to your points.
• Most slides should contain just one idea.
• Images are more powerful and memorable than bullet-points; i.e., great pictures are more powerful
than words
• Remove unnecessary visual clutter
• Do not use any of the PowerPoint features: clip art, 3D effects, bullet-points, backgrounds, layouts,
slide designs and templates, etc… these have largely become cliché.
• Use the highest quality images you can find. Do not distort/enlarge images so much that they degrade
in quality unless you have a specific visual effect in mind.
A few sources: •
Ignite website: http://www.ignitetalks.io/
• Google Images, filter for large sizes • On-line image catalogs • Books on impressive slide design, which
also have websites associated to them, including Presentation Zen and Slideology.
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