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Articles: Delivery - 2 views

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shared by jsoland on 16 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • use a small, handheld remote
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      jsoland on 27 Feb 15
       
      This has completely changed how I present and I love how it helps me to circulate around the audience.
  • Remember, it is your reputation, so always remain gracious even with the most challenging of audiences.
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      jsoland on 27 Feb 15
       
      I like to keep in mind that the audience won't remember the challenging person, but will remember how I handled them.
  • They glance at a slide just for a second to prompt them for the next piece of information
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      jsoland on 27 Feb 15
       
      I have really been able to improve on this now that I'm making the focus of my slide be the image.
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Articles: Design - 0 views

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  • “Sorry I missed your presentation. I hear it was great. Can you just send me your PowerPoint slides?” But if they are good slides, they will be of little use without you. Instead of a copy of your PowerPoint slides, it is far better to prepare a written document which highlights your content from the presentation and expands on that content.
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      jsoland on 20 Feb 15
       
      I'm embarassed to admit this, but it had never occured to me to prepare a handout other than a copy of the slides until this course.
  • Clip art is chosen
  • Clip art is chosen
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  • Avoid off-the-shelf clip art
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      jsoland on 20 Feb 15
       
      So, this example is pretty extreme in how bad it is, but I'm really starting to dislike anything clipart. It seems it is never appropriate.
  • So when adding elements to your slides, have a good reason:
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      jsoland on 24 Feb 15
       
      I think this is important for images as well as text. I need to keep in mind that sometimes just having the words on a slide can be as powerful as an image.
  • It’s functioning like a teleprompter
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      jsoland on 24 Feb 15
       
      We always need to keep in mind that the presentation and slides are for the audience, not the presenter. If we need a teleprompter than we don't know the material enough to be presenting.
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Articles: Preparation - 0 views

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  • Do not fall into the trap of thinking that in order for your audience to understand anything, you must tell them everything.
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      jsoland on 16 Feb 15
       
      I am guilty of this. In previous articles, it also highlighted the importance of restraint in information, but I struggle to identify what is and isn't important to someone else.
  • No software to get in my way and I can easily see how the flow will go. I draw sample images that I can use to support a particular point, say, a pie chart here, a photo there, perhaps a line graph in this section and so on.
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      jsoland on 16 Feb 15
       
      This resonates with me because I have always found myself scrambling to find images in the past to fit a slide without really purposely planning what the image should be. My focus was the reverse of what it should have been. I should be focusing on what image to use to illustrate the content.
  • “Statistics are used to tell lies...while accounting reports are often BS in a ball gown.”
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      jsoland on 16 Feb 15
       
      I find this quote funny as we used to joke all the time in graduate school that you could make stats say anything you wanted. I think people look at numbers and just take them to be the truth without realizing that number can be manipulated as well.
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  • Use visuals in an active way, not a decorative one.
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      jsoland on 16 Feb 15
       
      This is a theme that I'm seeing throughout the course and probably one of my biggest take aways as I have always thought of visuals as a compliment to the text on the screen rather than being the primary focus.
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Articles: Presentation "Awakening" - 0 views

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  • The redundancy effect says that if one form of instruction (such as the spoken word) is intelligible and adequate then providing the same material in another form (such as lines of text on a screen that mimic the words being spoken) are redundant and can actually hurt understanding.
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      jsoland on 15 Feb 15
       
      I found this so interesting and it can be counterintuitive, but the more I thought about it the more I reflected on how often I completely tune out as a result of seeing and hearing the same content (ie someone reading their powerpoint slide)
  • First, make yourself cue cards. Don’t put them on the screen. Put them in your hand. Now, you can use the cue cards you made to make sure you’re saying what you came to say.
  • First, make yourself cue cards. Don’t put them on the screen. Put them in your hand. Now, you can use the cue cards you made to make sure you’re saying what you came to say.
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  • First, make yourself cue cards. Don’t put them on the screen. Put them in your hand. Now, you can use the cue cards you made to make sure you’re saying what you came to say.
  • Fourth, create a feedback cycle. If your presentation is for a project approval, hand people a project approval form and get them to approve it, so there’s no ambiguity at all about what you’ve all agreed to.
  • Fourth, create a feedback cycle. If your presentation is for a project approval, hand people a project approval form and get them to approve it, so there’s no ambiguity at all about what you’ve all agreed to.
  • The Curse of Knowledge is essentially the condition whereby the deliverer of the message cannot imagine what it’s like not to possess his level of background knowledge on the topic.
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      jsoland on 15 Feb 15
       
      I really struggle with this. I'm never sure how technical to get with my language as I want the audience to feel comfortable with the content, but not feel like I am "talking down to them"
  • Concreteness. Use natural speech and give real examples with real things, not abstractions.
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      jsoland on 15 Feb 15
       
      I really need to work on this one and spend some time coming up with better examples, stories, and analogies in my presentations to make things more concrete.
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