Jackie TP9

After our coffee/snack break, we went back to the computer. This was a particularly long tutoring session--a total of about 3 and a half hours!--so we were taking it slow and I was trying to get Jia to learn instead of just 'telling' her how to do everything on the computer. I had just finished a computers course, so I had just made a Powerpoint on a Microsoft computer, so I showed her how to make it look nice to fit her speech, and be professional, as well as help her. She was adamant about having a lot to say that wasn't on the Powerpoint--or in other words, she wanted to be speaking! So, after making the basic slides of what she would talk about, we talked about the bullets in her outline. She told me things she wanted to say, and I asked her to define them. I helped her refine these sentences so she would write them down and practice them. But, we used bullet points on the slides to guide her. We would start with one line of information on the slide, then if she clicked the next click, it would go to the next, so she would know what to talk about in between those ideas. We had to make ten minutes out of this presentation, so I asked her many things about advertising that she would know and her audience would know--like ads she has seen in Tallahassee. This was definitely the hardest part of the presentation--making her ideas become full sentences to be spoken correctly, and using the Powerpoint to guide these ideas.