Prezi format

Prezi is a webpage where you can do presentations but in a different way. First, is not a program itself, but a webpage where you make an account and then have access to the Prezi.

The format works with a single slides which you can zoom and un-zoom several times, making it a fluid way of changing slides. It has a huge variety of backgrounds, sizes, models and colours. It gives a 3-D perspective, everyone can cooperate, it's easy and accessible.

Several companies has been using this web page for meeting with other companies and they improve it's use. As you can see in this link we already used this for a Communication's Skills Class.

Prezi is way much better than Microsoft Powerpoint because of the main point of the accesibility so everyone have a track of what are you doing. Also, not everyone has PowerPoint and when it comes for a teamwork, like my case, not everyone can agree with the whole presentation, so I would like to encourage people to use it in future projects.

Asperger's Syndrome

I have in my class a student that has Asperger Syndrome, so we spent a class talking about it. Not only the university thinks those subjects are important, but also for Communication Skills class, because this girl had severral problems and we never realized that.

The first time I saw this girl I didn't realize she was Asperguer nor nobody told me, but even that, I already have an Asperguer friend, so I know how to talk with them. Basically, you have to be distant but also salute them by looking at their eyes. They are not capable of talking a long conversation and they usually think the literal words of everything. Here is a vide ot understand better the situation for an adult Asperguer.

My schoolmate has no problems now that everyone knows about this Syndrome and I hope we can help her in everything we can.

PechaKucha

PechaKucha is a presentation format introduced in february of 2003 in Tokyo. It consists on a presentation (PowerPoint mostly) with 20 slides that changes every 20 seconds. The only neccesary thing the slides need is images and very little text.

The purposes of this new presentation format is to avoid people getting bored or read too much. That's why the PechaKucha only needs images, so the people can listen to the speaker and also, he has a supporting material to make the presentation more entertained. The 20 slides 20 seconds between each one means the total time of the presentation of 6 minutes 40 seconds, making it a decent time of listening.

This format has been so succesfull that several companies have taken it to apply in their presentations. Also, a web page has been created in order to track the most popular PechaKucha presentations made these days.

Personally, for the fist time you try to do the PechaKucha can be really difficult, but when you get used to it, it makes the work much easier. Give it a try.

Writting effective e-mails

Electronic mails are the best tool of communication nowadays. Fast, simple and has a worldwide connection. No matter if it's to a family member, friend or an employer, is neccesary to write them properly.

There are three types of destinataries: The normal one, Carbon copy (cc) and blind carbon copy (bcc). The first one displays all the destinataries that are going to receive your e-mail. The second one, Carbon Copy, sends a copy of the e-mail itself but you can't respond. Finally, the Blind Carbon Copy is made to send the-email that can't be respond and the receiver doesn't know the rest of the e-mails because they're hiding.

The subject has to be clear and compact, telling the main point of the whole e-mail. Also, the e-mail itself wil depend on which people are you sending: Long or short, formal or informal, etc. If you're writting to your boss, you have to be clear and specific and also, formal.

Also, check the ortography and paragraphs and make sure to put an end to the message, like "Greetings" or "See you". That final message also depends on who are you texting to.