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Focus - Plan - Practice

The document provides tips for creating effective presentations with slides. It recommends focusing on the subject matter and audience, developing a clear theme, preparing a script and storyboard, and rehearsing. Regarding slide design, it emphasizes keeping slides simple with few words and lines per slide, using clear fonts, colors, sizes and formatting consistently, and avoiding flashy transitions. The goal is to communicate the message clearly and simply without distracting elements.

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Focus - Plan - Practice

The document provides tips for creating effective presentations with slides. It recommends focusing on the subject matter and audience, developing a clear theme, preparing a script and storyboard, and rehearsing. Regarding slide design, it emphasizes keeping slides simple with few words and lines per slide, using clear fonts, colors, sizes and formatting consistently, and avoiding flashy transitions. The goal is to communicate the message clearly and simply without distracting elements.

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Focus – Plan – Practice

 Know your subject matter


– Research various nuances of your subject
– “selling” to an audience requires alternative ways of
thinking as well
 Know your audience
 Know yourself (and your limits)
 Develop a Theme
– All presentations are designed with purpose(s) of:
 Sell, educate, persuade, manipulate
 Prepare your script
– Opening – Body – Summary – Closing
 Proper visual aids
 Prepare a story board
– Script, images, colors, fonts, values for graphs, charts
 Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse
 Presentation day:
– Email presentations to yourself
– For group presentations – ensure each and everyone has a
copy of the presentation
– As a group practice once before the shot!
Make It Big
(How to Estimate?)
 Look at it from 7 feet away
7 ft
KISS
Keep It Short and Simple
(Text)
 Too many colors
 Too Many Fonts and Styles
 The 6 x 7 rule
– No more than 6 lines per slide
– No more than 7 words per line
Keep It Simple (Text)

Instructional Technology:
A complex integrated process involving
people, procedures, ideas, devices,
and organization, for analyzing
problems and devising, implementing,
Tooand
evaluating, detailed !
managing solutions to
those problems in situations in which
learning is purposive and controlled
(HMRS 5th ed.)
Keep It Simple (Text)

Instructional Technology:
A process
involving people, procedures & tools
Much Simpler
for solutions
to problems in learning
(HMRS 5th ed.)
Keep It Simple
(Transition)
 This transition is annoying, not
enhancing
• "Appear" and "Disappear" are better
Make It Clear
(Capitalisation)
 ALL CAPITAL LETTERS ARE DIFFICULT
TO READ
 Upper and lower case letters are
easier
Make It Clear (Fonts)

 Italics are difficult to read on screen


 Normal or bold fonts are clearer
 Underlines may signify hyperlinks
 Instead, use colors to emphasise
Make It Clear (Numbers /
Bullets)
Use numbers for lists with sequence
Use bullets to show a list without
 Priority

 Sequence

 Hierarchy, …..
Make It Clear (Colors)

 Use contrasting colors


 Light on dark vs dark on light
 Use complementary colors
Make It Clear (Contrast)

 Use contrasting colors


 Light on dark vs dark on light
high contrast
 Use complementary colors

low contrast
Make It Clear (Size)

 Size implies importance


Make It Clear (Size)

Sizeimplies
importance
Be Consistent

 Differences draw attention


 Differences may imply importance
 Use surprises to attract not distract
Be Consistent

Differences draw attention


 Differences may imply importance
 Use surprises to attract not distract

This tick draws attention


Be Consistent

Differences draw attention


 Differences may imply importance
o Use surprises to attract not distract

These differences distract!


Be Consistent

 Differences draw attention


• Differences may imply importance
 Use surprises to attract not distract

This implies importance


Be Consistent

 Differences draw attention


• Differences may imply importance
 Use surprises to attract not distract

Confusing differences!
Tips for Presenting

 Limit the number of slides


– 3 slides per minute is the maximum
 Practice moving between slides.
 Be prepared for technical difficulties
 Avoid the use of flashy transitions.

This is TOO flashy!

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