These PowerPoint programs are available to AIS Members and Affiliates at no charge. Simply send an email to the AIS Digital Program Coordinator (currently Jean Richter) at *protected email*. Include your name and location, and state that you are a member in good standing of the American Iris Society. Programs will be delivered by email or via download if too large to email. (See restrictions and suggestions below)
(SA) programs are recommended as “stand-alone” because they are annotated or do not require a knowledge of the genus iris on the part of the presenter.
† programs are not stand alone, they are good discussion starters, but require a leader with enough expertise to keep the discussion moving.
These programs are made available to members in good standing of the American Iris Society. Please observe the following restrictions:
Promoting The AIS: These are provided by the AIS to educate and to promote membership in the organization. Do not pass over the invitation to become a member. Talk to your audience about the benefits of joining (Cultural and Historic Information, support for local affiliates, support of iris research and historic preservation and a quarterly full-color bulletin, “Irises” which informs members of progress in hybridization, garden tips, annual awards and events.
Distribution: These are intended to be used as presentations to other member, local affiliates and the general public. The digital presentation copyrighted by the AIS. The program itself should not be shared with non-members.
Copyright All copyright restrictions which are included in the presentation must be observed. The photographs may not be shared without explicit permission from the copyright holder (usually the photographer) Questions should be directed to the AIS Digital Programs Coordinator at *protected email*
Comments: We welcome any feed-back, be it positive, editorial comments, or ways in which the program might be improved. Please direct comments to *protected email*
Contribute Programs: Our hope is to continually grow the library of programs available. Many of these are developed in coordination with local affiliates, growers and hybridizers. If you have a program to share or even an idea for a program the Digital Program Coordinator will gladly receive it and/or work with you to develop it. Again, *protected email* or 510-864-7962 is the contact information.
Some PowerPoint Tips:
Microsoft’s presentation program, PowerPointTM, is currently the industry standard. This program will need to be installed on the computer that you connect to a display (projector or large screen display) to share with others.
The suffix on a PowerPoint file name may be .ppt or .pptx. The ‘x’ indicates it was created in a newer version. Always trial-run the presentation before you present. If you run into issues you can let the Digital Program Coordinator know. We can make every effort to be sure it runs on your equipment. It will also mitigate the chance that something goes wrong at the event.
Programs may be set to advance automatically or to move from slide to slide by pressing a key. This is usually the space bar or a forward arrow. The back arrow will present the previous slide. Certain programs may include an animated effect. These are set for automatic or manual advance. There will be information about this in the ‘notes’ area.
We recommend using the Presenter View. While the means to access this varies between PC and Macintosh, you will find a drop down or pop-up menu to select it. This view shows just the slide on the projected image or display, but the computer screen gives the presenter much more information including:
Elapsed time and clock time A progress bar (red ‘thermometer’ display position in the presentation) The current slide image The next slide image The ‘Notes’ field (suggested talking point, a script and/or instruction WHEN PRESENT)A line of images with the previous, current and upcoming slides.
