…for an adult Scouting training workshop
Sample slides from the presentation.
Description: These PowerPoint slides were used in a one-hour presentation to help new scouting volunteers understand the nature of scouting and how to make it successful. The beginning of the presentation discusses the history of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the scouting movement in Britain. It then continues by explaining his use of the fleur-de-lis symbol as a symbol of scouting. The symbol is then used in a metaphor to help new leaders understand principles behind successful scouting.
My Roles/Contributions: I am responsible for the content, concept (writing) as well as the presentation (instructional) design and visual (graphic) design of slides.
Instructional Details: The brief history of Lord Baden-Powell is to get them thinking about the foundations of scouting. The fleur-de-lis symbol he chose to represent scouting is used as a metaphor of various aspects of scouting, and their proper place in the program. It is hoped that scout leaders consistent exposure to that symbol will bring these concepts to mind.
Graphic Details: A light photo of a forest scene was desaturated and used as the background to all slides to represent the outdoors-nature of scouting. Typefaces were selected to reflect a fun and informal feel for both the training presentation and scouting in general. Typeface for titles was Jimbo Standard Black—a heavy, rounded serif font. Bullet points and details were composed in Balzano Standard, which has a light and friendly, handwritten calligraphic look, and yet is condensed, permitting a lot of information to be included.
Illustrations & Images: were taken from common images related to scouting, compasses, map roses, and the fleur-de-lis symbol itself all found on the Internet. (Note: the fleur-de-lis symbol chosen was intentionally not to be that of either the international scouting movement nor Boy Scouts of America.)
Download a .pdf which includes eight of the original 30 slides (2.1 MB).
