1. Presentation Aids
Lecture 8.4
University of Alberta
ALES 204
Nancy Bray
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2. Housekeeping
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3. Lecture Outline
1. How to prepare a speech
2. Thinking about presentation aids
3. Developing powerful slides
4. Tips for presenting
5. Some common mistakes
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4. How to prepare a speech
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5. Presenter’s triangle
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6. Tip 1: Go analogue
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7. Tip 2: Ask “so what?”
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8. Tip 3: Pass the elevator test
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9. Tip 4: Think about visuals offline
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10. Thinking about presentation aids
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11. The limitations
of PowerPoint
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12. Alternatives to
PowerPoint
Other presentation software
Prezi (www.prezi.com)
Powtoon (
www.powtoon.com)
SlideRocket (
www.sliderocket.com) $
Can you use a physical prop?
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13. Religion and babies
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_religions_and_babies.html
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14. 3. Developing powerful slides
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15. Background
and colours
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18. Font
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20. Animation
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21. Image
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24. Text
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26. Graphs and
charts
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29. Types of
graphs
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30. Pie graph
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31. Bar graph with illustrations
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32. Line graph
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34. 4. Tips for presenting
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35. Learn your software
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36. Learn to use a remote
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37. Figure out the
technology
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38. 5. Common mistakes
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39. Common
mistakes
1. Presentation aids overwhelm
speech
2. Not enough practice (danger
for those comfortable with
speaking!)
3. Voice is not loud enough
(danger for women!)
4. Intro and conclusion are too
short
5. Standing behind podium
6. Reading notes
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40. Take away
Design deliberately
Plan everything
Know your technology
Have a backup plan
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41. Photo Credits
Take away by Jim Moran
Bad PowerPoint examples from
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://elmhurst.edu/~jacobh/WorstPresentationEverStandAlone.ppt and
http://www.pcworld.com/article/203396/worlds_worst_powerpoint_presentations.html
butterfly by Property#1
charts by Marc_Smith
colours by @Doug88888
death-by-powerpoint by death-by-powerpoint
elevator by vistavision
fire by john curley
fonts by clared23
good powerpoint slide by Presentation Zen
great speaker by outlan2000
happy audience by delhibloggers
presenters view by davidking
sliderocket_product_hero
so what by dandooo
sticky note elevator by pni
writing by lowjumpingfrog
yousuckatpowerpoint
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