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Articles: Delivery - 2 views

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shared by brendahack on 16 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • world class ones is the ability to connect with an audience in an honest and exciting way.
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      brendahack on 26 Feb 15
       
      The more passionate you are about your topic, the more engaging you become. You have stories and experiences that you can share with the audience and help them feel a need to know more. I agree that it builds your confidence as a presenter as well. If you are not captivated by your topic, it is extremely difficult to capture someone else's.
  • So, if you have 30 minutes for your talk, finish in 25 minutes. It is better to have the audience wanting more (of you) than to feel that they have had more than enough
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      brendahack on 26 Feb 15
       
      I am ever appreciative of this when I am attending and not presenting. I generally find that I will take the "extra" time allowed to thank the speaker, or ask a question one to one rather than in the whole group when I feel it is specific to my needs and not a group topic.
  • By having the slide blank, all the attention can now be placed back on you. When you are ready to move on, just press the “B” key again and the image reappea
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      brendahack on 26 Feb 15
       
      Not only does it change the focus, but it gets the light out of your eyes. It is uncomfortable to have a dialog with a audience member when you are squinting to see them.
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  • You’re presenting because you need them to change their beliefs or behavior in some way, and people find it hard to change. So expect them to resist
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      brendahack on 26 Feb 15
       
      This is a hard one, but true. You are trying to affect change. There will be those who want to prove you wrong, or challenge what you are saying. If you can use thier examples as a way to "prove" what you are saying all the better.
  • Does your audience hold fast to a bias, dogma, or moral code
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      brendahack on 26 Feb 15
       
      My presentation that I am working on is a test taking strategy that allows the test taker to NOT read the whole reading passage when doing a reading test. As educators this is a real challenge to what we as learners did and as teachers teach. Yet it has been so effective that I am willing to meet their challenge, and provide them the opportunity to prove it to themselves.
  • Always remember that the people in your audience get to determine whether your idea spreads or dies. You need them more than they need you. So be humble in your approach. Their desires and goals — and their frustrations and anxieties — should shape everything you present
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      brendahack on 26 Feb 15
       
      Powerful statement.
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Articles: Design - 0 views

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  • The slides themselves were never meant to be the “star of the show” (the star, of course, is your audience).
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      brendahack on 23 Feb 15
       
      Good to keep in mind. It is not about you or the images you choose, or the words we use. It is about the audience and having them on the journey with us.
  • If you have a detailed handout or publication for the audience to be passed out after your talk, you need not feel compelled to fill your PowerPoint slides with a great deal of text
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      brendahack on 23 Feb 15
       
      I am excited to present with this point in mind. I know it will be different, but I think it will be a good different.
  • Some animation is a good thing, but stick to the most subtle and professional (similar to what you might see on the evening TV news broadcast).
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      brendahack on 23 Feb 15
       
      I am still thinking about this. How much is too much? This statement of what you might see on the evening news is helpful. I do think some animation, like fade, does make it flow and perhaps more interesting, but you can definately have too much of a good thing.
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  • Pretend as though you are an audience member for your upcoming presentation. Do any slides feel text heavy? Be honest with yourself. Remember the golden rule of PowerPoint presentations — always do what is right for your audience. Very few audiences enjoy paragraph-length bullet points.
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      brendahack on 23 Feb 15
       
      I have certainly been gulity of this. How small can I make the font to get it all to fit on one slide. Find the main message and clear away the rest.
  • Think of your slides as billboards. When people drive, they only briefly take their eyes off their main focus — the road — to process billboard information. Similarly, your audience should focus intently on what you’re saying, looking only briefly at your slides when you display them.
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      brendahack on 23 Feb 15
       
      Keep it simple. Over and over, probably the most powerful message throughout. I really think they made the point with the bill board analogy.
  • Here, for example, your eye takes in the cluster of grapes, then moves to the message about quality, and then focuses on one beautiful grape from the “yield”:
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      brendahack on 23 Feb 15
       
      Great example. Rather like painting. You want to have the eye move from one spot to the other, dicovering your message as they go. Nice!
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Articles: Preparation - 0 views

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  • Introduce the problem you have (or did have) and how you will solve it (or did solve it). Give examples that are meaningful and relevant to your audience. Remember, story is sequential: “This happened, and then this happened, and therefore this happened, and so on.” Take people on a journey that introduces conflict and then resolves that conflict. If you can do this, you will be miles ahead of most presenters who simply recall talking points and broadcast lists of information
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      brendahack on 17 Feb 15
       
      If I can get to this point, I will feel successful. I have been reflecting on the presentation that I am working on, and realized when I am teaching students I have done this, but not intentionally. I plan to use a personal story that demonstrates the power of the information I will be presenting. What I am finding challenging is selecting the "right" image to show the emotion I want to invoke. Since this is content that I am very familar with, I am not concerned about bullets, or list of info, but I feel the challenge of getting it all flowing.
  • I am evangelizing the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.
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      brendahack on 17 Feb 15
       
      So much power in so few words! Pass the elevator test? yep. 10 slides, a bit scary, but do-able, 20 minutes about what I can expect from students, but when presenting to peers, it is generally much more. However that can be broken up with activities and group work, individual work and check for understanding, in addition to just the power point. I like that font syle and size are being addressed. I play around with that too much, not sure if I have it right, so now I have a tool to guide me. Thanks.
  • Force yourself to use no font smaller than thirty points. I guarantee it will make your presentations better because it requires you to find the most salient points and to know how to explain them well. If “thirty points,” is too dogmatic, the I offer you an algorithm: find out the age of the oldest person in your audience and divide it by two. That’s your optimal font size.
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      brendahack on 17 Feb 15
       
      I love it! I am going to play this game in class, how old are you, wait a minute, slides adjusted to "correct" font. Seriously, in adult education this is a big issue. No one wants to admit that they can't read the slides because the font is too small. Ego?
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Articles: Presentation "Awakening" - 0 views

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  • It is effective to speak to a diagram, because it presents information in a different form. But it is not effective to speak the same words that are written, because it is putting too much load on the mind and decreases your ability to understand what is being presented
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      brendahack on 16 Feb 15
       
      Speaking to the diagram allows one to have their own thoughts, and consider the presenters ideas I beleive without the overload suggested by reaing the slide to them. I like the idea of an image that gets to the emotion or the concept that you are trying to get across.
  • Next time you plan a presentation, then, start by using a pencil and pad, a whiteboard, or a stick in the sand — anything except jumping headfirst into slideware on your computer with its templates, outlines, and content wizards that may point you down a path you wish not to go.
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      brendahack on 16 Feb 15
       
      I love this! Of course anything done in the sand this time of the year in Iowa seems like a GREAT idea. I know I am guilty of starting with the slide and not the overall concept. It is so easy to rearrange slides in power point that is it ewasy to get caught up in headfirst jumping.
  • IMPORTANT: Don’t hand out the written stuff at the beginning! If you do, people will read the memo while you’re talking and ignore you. Instead, your goal is to get them to sit back, trust you and take in the emotional and intellectual points of your presentation.
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      brendahack on 16 Feb 15
       
      Yep! save it until the end. How many conferences have you been to that people stick their head in the door, grab a copy of your slides, handout, whatever, and turn around and head out. If they could sit and listen knowing they will get materials at the end, I believe they will have a better learning experience.
  • Simplicity. If everything is important, then nothing is important. If everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority. You must be ruthless in your efforts to simplify
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      brendahack on 16 Feb 15
       
      Easier said than done, but how very important! I know this is one that I will be giving lots of thought to.
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