INTERACTIVE PRESENTATION SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20070298404A1
• Filed: 06/08/2007
• Published: 12/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Training Masters, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Training Masters, Inc.
• Inventors: Girondi, Alfred J., Amell, Robert E.
• Application Number:
  US11/760,126
• Publication Number:
  US 20070298404A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/350
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F

Abstract

A method of presenting an interactive presentation on a display to an audience includes the step of displaying a slide from a presentation to the audience with a presentation software application, the slide including a selectable element for initiating an audience response session. Upon selection of the selectable element, the audience response session is initiated, wherein the initiating step includes calling a response session screen generator program and passing at least one data element to the response session screen generator program. During the audience response session, question is displayed to the audience and responses are received to the question from a plurality of remote response units distributed to the audience.

Claims

1. A method of presenting an interactive presentation on a display to an audience, comprising the steps of:

displaying a slide from a presentation to the audience with a presentation software application, said slide including a selectable element for initiating an audience response session;

upon selection of the selectable element, initiating the audience response session, wherein said initiating step comprises calling a response session screen generator program and passing at least one data element to said response session screen generator program; and

during the audience response session, displaying a question to said audience and receiving responses to said question from a plurality of remote response units distributed to the audience.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the question is stored in a data storage and said data element comprises an identifier for the question, wherein said response session screen generator program obtains said question from said data storage and displays a graphical interface on said display presenting said question to the audience.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein:

said presentation software application displays said question in said slide to said audience, and

said data element comprises a correct answer to said question.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said response session screen generator program displays a graphical interface over said slide, said graphical interface visually representing the receipt of responses to said question from said remote response units.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said response session screen generator program displays a graphical interface on the display that visually represents the receipt of responses to said question from said remote response units.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein said graphical interface represents whether responses have been received from respective remote response units during said audience response session.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said graphical interface represents whether responses have been received in a grid having respective locations corresponding to respective remote response units.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising the step of receiving through said graphical interface a command to display a correct response to said question and, in response to said command, displaying the correct response in the graphical interface.

9. The method of claim 5, further comprising the step of receiving through said graphical interface during said audience response session a command to stop accepting responses to said question.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of receiving during said audience response session a command to stop accepting responses to said question.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising the step of, after receiving said stop command, receiving a command to display a correct response to said question and displaying the correct response to the question on said display.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising the step of, after receiving said stop command, receiving a command to display responses received from said remote response units and displaying the responses received from said remote response units on said display.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising the step of, after receiving said stop command, receiving a command to display response statistics for responses received from said remote response units and displaying the response statistics on said display.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein said selectable element includes embedded code for calling said response session screen generator program and providing said data element to said response session screen generator program.

15. A method of preparing an interactive presentation for display to an audience on a display, comprising the steps of:

selecting a slide within an electronic presentation, said electronic presentation having a file format associated with a presentation software application; and

inserting a selectable element into said selected slide, wherein upon selection of said selectable element at least one data element is provided to a response session screen generator program to initiate an audience response session for receiving responses to a question from a plurality of remote response units.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the data element comprises an identifier for a question in a data storage and said response session screen generator program displays a graphical interface on said display presenting said question to the audience.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein:

said slide contains a question for said audience, and

said data element comprises a correct answer to said question.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein said selectable element includes embedded code for calling said response session screen generator program and providing said data element to said response session screen generator program.

19. A system for presenting an interactive presentation on a display to an audience, comprising:

a plurality of remote response units;

a display; and

a computer processor comprising;

a presentation software application for displaying a presentation to the audience; and

a response session screen generator program, wherein upon selection of a selectable element included in a slide from said presentation said response session screen generator program receives at least one data element associated with said selectable element and initiates an audience response session, and said response session screen generator receives responses from said plurality of remote response units during said audience response session to a question displayed to said audience.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the question is stored in a data storage and said data element comprises an identifier for the question, wherein said response session screen generator program obtains said question from said data storage and displays a graphical interface on said display presenting said question to the audience.

21. The system of method of claim 19, wherein:

said presentation software application displays said question in said slide to said audience, and

said data element comprises a correct answer to said question.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein said response session screen generator program displays a graphical interface over said slide, said graphical interface visually representing the receipt of responses to said question from said remote response units.

23. The system of claim 19, wherein said response session screen generator program displays a graphical interface on the display that visually represents the receipt of responses to said question from said remote response units.

26. The system of claim 23, wherein said response session screen generator program is configured to receive through said graphical interface displayed during said audience response session a command to stop accepting responses to said question.

27. The system of claim 19, wherein said remote response screen generator program is configured to receive during said audience response session a command to stop accepting responses to said question.

28. The system of claim 21, wherein said remote response screen generator program is configured to, after receiving said stop command, receive a command to display a correct response to said question and to display the correct response to the question on said display.

29. The system of claim 27, wherein said remote response screen generator program is configured to, after receiving said stop command, receive a command to display responses received from said remote response units and display the responses received from said remote response units on said display.

30. The system of claim 27, wherein said remote response screen generator is configured to, after receiving said command, receive a command to display response statistics for responses received from said remote response units and display the response statistics on said display.

31. The system of claim 19, wherein said selectable element includes embedded code for calling said response session screen generator program and providing said data element to said response session screen generator program.

24. The system 23, wherein said graphical interface represents whether responses have been received in a grid having respective locations corresponding to respective remote response units.

25. The system of 23, wherein said response session screen generator is configured to receive through said graphical interface a command to display a correct response to said question and, in response to said command, display the correct response in the graphical interface.

32. An apparatus for preparing an interactive presentation for display to an audience on a display, comprising:

means for selecting a slide within an electronic presentation, said electronic presentation having a file format associated with a presentation software application; and

means for inserting a selectable element into said selected slide, wherein upon selection of said selectable element at least one data element is provided to a response session screen generator program to initiate an audience response session for receiving responses to a question from a plurality of remote response units.

33. The system of claim 32, wherein the data element comprises an identifier for a question in a data storage and said response session screen generator program displays a graphical interface on said display presenting said question to the audience.

34. The system of claim 32, wherein:

said slide contains a question for said audience, and

said data element comprises a correct answer to said question.

35. The system of claim 32, wherein said selectable element includes embedded code for calling said response session screen generator program and providing said data element to said response session screen generator program.