OUR PRESENTATIONS AT RENAISSANCE SOCIETY

John and I belong to the Renaissance Society, which is a sort of partnership between CSUS and a group of seniors who want to continue learning in retirement. Our group of about 1300 or so seniors is allowed to use the campus on Fridays, when there are few classes for the regular students.
The fun class we take, in my opinion, is a drop-in class devoted to the use of the iPad and iPhone. We get presentations by our instructors, but they get tired of us sitting there like dolts and today we were all supposed to give a presentation about various ways you can look up information about how to use your devices.

John had a presentation on using Apple on-line support. I can now see why he was a successful student. He spent several days researching the ways you could use the support, working through the options and putting together a nice, useful presentation.

I, on the other hand, waited until 11 pm last night and then tried to put together a Keynote presentation about the Apple on-line manual using an app I had never used before. I will admit that Keynote is the Apple version of Power Point and more intuitive than a lot of programs.

Of course, I didn't actually see anything I could actually tell people about that they didn't already know, since someone had given a very professional presentation a couple of weeks ago.

So I went to the Internet and downloaded a bunch of pictures of cats with computers and then wrote some very short statements, like, open the web page, look at the table of contents, etc. and then there were all these cute cat pictures.
I introduced my presentation by saying that I had worked in politics for many years and learned that if you can actually answer the question you are asked, answer the question you want to answer.