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Articles: Delivery - 1 views

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shared by Chanda Hassett on 12 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • The first 2-3 minutes of the presentation are the most important.
    • Chanda Hassett
      Chanda Hassett on 17 Aug 14
       
      So should be build our ethos or jump right to the topic?
  • Turning the lights off
    • Chanda Hassett
      Chanda Hassett on 17 Aug 14
       
      This was hard in my classroom because the lights were either on or off. With no ambient lighting, students pulled out their cell phones to use the flashlight for note taking. I left the lights on for my presentations, but students just never grasped how to color coordinate their presentations.
  • Anticipating resistance forces you to really think about the people you’re presenting to, and that makes it easier to influence them
    • Chanda Hassett
      Chanda Hassett on 17 Aug 14
       
      This is absolutely right! You have to take the audience into consideration or you're likely to build the wrong presentation. As everything can be perceived as an argument, how are you going to win over or influence the group?
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  • break it into 10-minute chunks.
    • Chanda Hassett
      Chanda Hassett on 17 Aug 14
       
      This is a good idea. I've never considered chunking the presentation but it makes sense. Since you don't want them to get up and move too much due to your time constraint, re-setting with media would serve that purpose.
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Articles: Design - 2 views

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shared by Chanda Hassett on 03 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • The slides themselves were never meant to be the “star of the show”
    • Chanda Hassett
      Chanda Hassett on 12 Aug 14
       
      So true but how often forgotten. If your slides can speak for themselves, why are you even there to present them? (a question I often posed to my students in hope they'd speak more off the slides than read them)
  • Background image has too much salience (text hard to see)
    • Chanda Hassett
      Chanda Hassett on 12 Aug 14
       
      This is such an easy fix. A good eye will catch this artful contrast. Creating a good PowerPoint is truly an art. Using stock themes and clip art images is cliche, as stated, and truly detracts from the message.
  • People should be able to comprehend each one in about three seconds.
    • Chanda Hassett
      Chanda Hassett on 12 Aug 14
       
      This is a good rule of thumb to try to embrace. The image should strike the emotion of the audience.
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  • including a healthy amount of white space sharpens viewers’ focus by isolating elements
    • Chanda Hassett
      Chanda Hassett on 12 Aug 14
       
      Too often avoided, white space does help to focus the eye. Again, a well planned presentation would recognize this element of design.
  • there’s beauty and clarity in restraint
    • Chanda Hassett
      Chanda Hassett on 12 Aug 14
       
      It goes back to simplicity - Keep it Simple - Make your message known through the visual imagery and not the extraneous list of bulleted information.
  • If you use more than two lines anywhere, then they’re definitely leaning text heavy.
    • Chanda Hassett
      Chanda Hassett on 12 Aug 14
       
      Another good rule of thumb I tend to make my bullets just ideas and never complete sentences, but sometimes they do get a little wordy.
  • Re-write the highlighted phrases if they are inconsistent with the other simplified bullet points.
    • Chanda Hassett
      Chanda Hassett on 12 Aug 14
       
      Great technique to pare down extra words to just what's necessary. An easy technique to share with students also.
  • This approach
    • Chanda Hassett
      Chanda Hassett on 12 Aug 14
       
      Again, another great idea to limit the text and emphasize the image
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Articles: Preparation - 3 views

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shared by Chanda Hassett on 08 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • the audience could always just read your book
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      Chanda Hassett on 08 Aug 14
       
      This is an absolute downfall of my classroom presentations. I constructed introductory PowerPoints so my students wouldn't need to read the chapter's intro. but it was merely an abbreviated regurgitation of information. I had no "good" purpose in creating it.
  • it will be appreciated by the audience
    • Chanda Hassett
      Chanda Hassett on 08 Aug 14
       
      If you're truly keeping your audience in mind, this should be more important than the data/message. 
  • When building the content of your presentation always put yourself in the shoes of the audience and ask “so what?”
    • Chanda Hassett
      Chanda Hassett on 08 Aug 14
       
      This is a great idea. I know I haven't done it. I've just shared the info. with my students rather than asking "so what". Why do they need to know this? If I don't know, they surely won't care, and my presentation is moot.
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  • In a perfect world, you give your pitch in twenty minutes, and you have forty minutes left for discussion.
    • Chanda Hassett
      Chanda Hassett on 08 Aug 14
       
      I think of conference presentations of which I've been a part. We usually have so much info. to cover in our hour, we make it last about 40 minutes and allow 20 minutes for discussion. My fear is that going the other way, we'd have to cut out too much "necessity" and there wouldn't be enough questioning/discussion. Or is this just my egoistic thought that our info. is THAT important?
  • ten slides to explain your business,
    • Chanda Hassett
      Chanda Hassett on 08 Aug 14
       
      As I think of recent conference presentations I've helped present, the 10 slide rule could apply (in a modified fashion to our content, of course). It would take some real paring down on our part to get to the nuts and bolts, but simplicity is a rule to follow not just idolize.
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Articles: Presentation "Awakening" - 5 views

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shared by Chanda Hassett on 30 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • “Curse of Knowledge.”
    • Chanda Hassett
      Chanda Hassett on 03 Aug 14
       
      This is how I've made most of my Ppts for my classes. I have even questioned students about why they didn't "get it" when it was right there. AH, Me!
  • No dissolves, spins or other transitions
    • Chanda Hassett
      Chanda Hassett on 06 Aug 14
       
      I had to sit through an administrator's presentation that seemed like he'd just learned how to use PowerPoint. Every transition was different, slides were various colors, text sizes varied from slide to slide - UGH!
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