In reality, though, you’re not the star of the show. The audience is. It’s in their power to embrace — or reject — your ideas.

Most people listening to presentations tend to tune out after about 10 minutes,

They glance at a slide just for a second to prompt them for the next piece of information," Gallo says. "And then they turn and deliver to audience. They know what's on the slide because they have practiced."

if your presentation visuals taken in the aggregate (e.g., your “PowerPoint deck”) can be perfectly and completely understood without your narration, then it begs the question: why are you there?

First, make yourself cue cards. Don’t put them on the screen. Put them in your hand.

Second, make slides that reinforce your words, not repeat them

The software was designed as a convenient way to display graphical information that would support the speaker and supplement the presentation.

use no more than two-three different types of transition effects and do not place transition effects between all slides

Again, if it is included in the software, your audience has seen it a million times before.

What is the essence of your message? This is the ultimate question you need to ask yourself during the preparation of your presentation.

What is the real purpose of your talk? Why is it that you were asked to speak? What does the audience expect? In your opinion, what are the most important parts of your topic for the audience to take away from your, say, 50-minute presentation?

A data dump

Stories are easy to remember for your audience

What are their expectations of you?

A data dump — all too common unfortunately — is when a presenter crams too much information into the talk without making the effort to make the information or data applicable to the members of the audience.

I see three principle advantages to online education, 1) leverage, especially of the best teachers; 2) time savings; 3) individualized teaching and new technologies.

Pinterest: You can pin just about any image you find interesting on this site, but many teachers are using it as a place to collect great lesson plans, projects, and inspirational materials.

QR Codes: QR codes (or quick response codes) are showing up with greater frequency in education. If you’d like to get in on the trend, you’ll need a tool to create and manage the codes like Delivr and one to read codes, like any of those listed on this site.