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Easily add high-impact group activities to your PowerPoint® slides

YawnBuster brings alive your PowerPoint® slides with Group Activities such as audience polls, games, group exercises and competitions. Now you can get your audience to think, enjoy, participate and identify key takeaways quickly and easily.

With YawnBuster, you get:
	Ready Flash templates for Group Activities
	Group Activities which are embeddable right inside PowerPoint®
	Easy customization, which requires no technical skills
	Single PowerPoint file that bundles all Group Activities
With YawnBuster, you always have undivided attention of your audience: after all, they aren't just watching PowerPoint slides any more - they are interacting with you.

YawnBuster software helps you easily add group activities to your PowerPoint presentations. Once you install YawnBuster, it appears as a menu inside PowerPoint. While preparing a slide, you simply select this menu to add a group activity to the slide. You select a pre-built group activity Flash template, where you enter content specific to your topic, and save it. YawnBuster embeds the group activity as part of your PowerPoint file. It is that simple.

YawnBuster provides eight high-impact Group Activities classified as:
Participation Enhancers, Audience Collaboration Activities and Breathers.

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Participation Enhancers

Conduct quick polls and invite ideas to understand your customer needs. Capture and summarize action items and questions right inside your PowerPoint to define the follow up plan accurately.

	Show of Hands Ideal in the beginning of your presentation, and also appropriate whenever you need to conduct a quick poll. Impact Type: Icebreaker
	Brainstorm A great way to invite ideas on a topic and also to build a rallying point for audience around an issue. Impact Type: Activator
	Key Takeaway What better way to summarize your ideas than have your audience build the key takeaways interactively? Impact Type: Closure

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Audience Collaboration Activities

Get your audience to do focused thinking to debate and collaborate and arrive at a consensus.

Sequence
The audience collaboratively orders bits of information in sequence by priority, chronology or other such criteria.
Impact Type: Activator

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Breathers

Challenge your audience by generating healthy competition using fun games in your presentation.

	Point of View When the answer to a question depends on one's point of view, you need a way to bring out multiple viewpoints on a given question. In this group activity, each group represents a perspective. Groups compete to get maximum score as they answer the same question, where the right answer changes based on the group's perspective. Impact Type: Group Exercise
	Quiz Show Create a game show style challenge involving questions with a scoring strategy that fosters competition among members of the audience. Impact Type: Group Exercise
	Bingo! This popular party game generates excitement as participants answer questions to win a house. A sure hit with all audiences, a great game format that also ensures reinforcement of knowledge conveyed. Impact Type: Energizer Game
	Spider's Web This group activity organizes questions in a multilevel game-like format by increasing level of difficulty. Each group plays a prey trying to escape the spider's web by answering questions that get harder as you go out. Impact Type: Energizer Game

We are glad to offer you a free evaluation copy of YawnBuster.

What you can do with it:

You can use the software for 7 days from the day you install it. The software becomes automatically unusable after 7 days.

Requirements

The evaluation copy runs on Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows XP.

How to obtain it:

You can download it from our website. To download, click here.

Get a quick tour of YawnBuster to see how you can easily add high-impact group activities to your PowerPoint slides.

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Have a look at the samples of various group activities which you can create using YawnBuster.

Group Activity Samples

Research suggests that Group Activities can significantly enhance attention in a classroom. If you are looking for an easy way to build and effortlessly facilitate Group Activities in your classroom sessions, look no further. With YawnBuster, you will never wonder if your learners are with you. You will always have their attention, involvement and interest throughout the duration of the class.

Whether you are an instructor, teacher, trainer, educator or presenter, bring your classroom sessions alive with best-of-class Group Activities in YawnBuster.

With YawnBuster you can:

	Make classroom training more interesting
	Rest assured the whole class is with you and nobody is left behind
	Choose from a variety of Icebreakers, Activators, Group Exercises, Energizer Games and Closers.

Group Activity Creator Seat System Requirements:

	Intel Pentium III Processor (or higher)
	Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP with latest service packs
	512MB of RAM
	100MB available disk space
	256-color monitor
	Mouse or compatible pointing device
	CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
	.NET Framework 2.0 or above
	Flash Player 8.0 or above. If you do not have Flash Player 8 or above, please install it from the URL http://www.adobe.com/
	Microsoft PowerPoint® 2003 or 2007

Presenter Seat System Requirements:

The presenter needs to have Flash Player 8.0 or above installed on the machine to view the Group Activities.

YawnBusterr is priced at $320 per license. For detailed pricing options and volume pricing information, visit http://www.ellenfinklestein.com/estore/harbinger-buy.html.

If you have any technical questions, write to our technical support and we will respond in one business day!

For general queries or purchase related questions, write to info@yawnbuster.com.