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Articles: Delivery - 0 views

  • The first 2-3 minutes of the presentation are the most important.
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      I agree, hook them early or lose them.
  • Anticipating resistance forces you to really think about the people you’re presenting to, and that makes it easier to influence them.
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      Being proactive and anticipating resistance will allow you to less reactive, which would not be good for a presentation.
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Articles: Design - 0 views

  • Very few audiences enjoy paragraph-length bullet points.
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      I can't think of anybody, let alone a few people.
  • It’s okay to cover details verbally that are not reflected in your bullet points.
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      I am having a hard time adjusting to this thought. In the past, I wanted to include everything in the slides. Now I thinking of it more of an outline for me.
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  • This introduces distracting visual noi
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      Why would anyone do this? How could they think that this is ok?
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Articles: Preparation - 3 views

  • always volunteer to go first or last, by the way)
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      Always good to make the first or last impression
  • If you want your audience to remember your content, then find a way to make it relevant and memorable to them
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      Making a connection will invest them.
  • When you remove the unknown and reduce anxiety and nervousness, then confidence is something that will naturally take the place of your anxiety.
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      I used to have my fifth graders perform Shakespeare memorized on stage. They were always nervous but I would tell them that it is just like we rehearsed over and over again. PREPARATION POWERS PERFORMANCE!
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  • we learn best with a narrative structure.
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      I keep wondering how to use stories in an educational presentation such as information about the solar system.
  • We do not tell a story from memory alone; we do not need to memorize a story that has meaning to us. If it is real, then it is in us
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      This is so true in retrospect.
  • 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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      This may not work when teaching 12 year olds. HA
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Articles: Presentation "Awakening" - 11 views

  • No more than six words on a slide. EVER.
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      Even for educational presentations????? That will mean a lot of slides.
  • No dissolves, spins or other transitions.
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      I will have to tell my students this.
  • Unexpectedness
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      Is this good for presentations for teaching??
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  • Great ideas and presentations have an element of story to them.
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      Once again, I question how to always accomplish this in educational presentations.
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