The articles Dr. Belisle provided for the class are very helpful for good presentations. They talk about how to make effective presentations for what you are trying to deliver to the audience. There are several points that all the articles have made.
First, do not make your presentations wordy.
If your presentations have too many words, it is not only hard to read while presenting your point, but also the audience can be easily bored by your presentation.
Second, do not use cheesy clip arts that Microsoft already has provided.
More graphic and professional pictures are better for the presentation instead of cheesy clip arts.
Third, do not give out your hand-outs for the presentation at the beginning.
Seth Godin who wrote "Bad PowerPoint" made a very good point in his article. If you give out the hand-outs ahead, the audience will read them and ignore what you say or try to deliver.
Fourth, use visual items for your presentation.
Using videos and audio is good for examples to bold your point in the presentation. However, be aware when you use sounds that have already been made by Microsoft because they may not be suitable.
Finally, use correct charts for your presentation.
Using appropriate charts can be very effective. Garrreynolds.com provided some information about different charts. For example, pie charts are the best to show the percentages.
The most annoying thing about bad PowerPoint presentations is that they are too wordy and have awful audio. For example, when I was being trained to be an intramural basketball referee, the presentation was very wordy at first. So everyone in the room was getting extremely bored and tired of it. However, it used different videos for different situations and helped us understand the rules much better.
Thank you.
hkim1@trinity.edu
yes, picking certain videos can have a huge impact
ReplyDelete