a presentation for college lecturers of Andhra Pradesh Commissionerate of Collegiate Education on "presentation Skills" specifically for those shortlisted for creating e-content and produce online video lessons.
2. 2
Pre-Assignment
1. Recall a few TV presentations
that did not meet your
expectations.
2. Reflect on factors that made
those bad presentations bad.
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17. Use Highlighters
Text in your slides should not be superfluous, ever. Your slides should have
plenty of white space. There is no need to fill empty areas on your slide with
unnecessary graphics or text boxes that do not contribute to improved
understanding. Note that the less clutter you have on your slide, the more
powerful your “visual message” will become.
Text in your slides should not be superfluous, ever. Your
slides should have plenty of white space. There is no need to
fill empty areas on your slide with unnecessary graphics or
text boxes that do not contribute to improved
understanding. Note that the less clutter you have on your
slide, the more powerful your visual message will become.
Text in your slides should not be superfluous, ever. Your
slides should have plenty of white space. There is no need to
fill empty areas on your slide with unnecessary graphics or
text boxes that do not contribute to improved
understanding. Note that the less clutter you have on your
slide, the more powerful your “visual message” will become.
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19. Legible Fonts
There are many fonts which are fancy
and are are useful in certain special contexts.
They make reading difficult
and distract attention.
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21. Font Size
This is 60 point, bold.
This is 48 point, bold.
This is 40 point, bold
This is 32 point, bold.
This is 24 point, bold.
This is 18 point, bold.
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24. Enrich with Audio Visuals
Use
objects, charts, video, slideshows
Introduce the visual properly
Face the audience, not the visual
Use
objects, charts, video, slideshows
Introduce the visual properly
Face the audience, not the visual
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27. Six/Six & Two/Two Rules
 No more than six lines in a slide.
 No more than six words in a line.
 No more than two fonts in a slide.
 No more than two colors in a slide.
 Keep slides neat and dignified.
 Make slides impressive and engaging.
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28. Eight Attributes
 Delivery (loudness, emphasis and pauses)
 Extent (content: facts or opinions, structure)
 Language (apt, colorful words, short sentences)
 Ideas (be original, express originally)
 Context (know audience, occasion and adopt)
 Aim (to entertain, motivate, inform, instruct)
 Control (be calm, confident and think ahead)
 Yourself (be natural, be sincere, be convincing)
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30. Don’t
 Don’t read from notes / screen
 Don’t slouch
 Avoid hands in pockets
 Avoid non-words / prop words
 Don’t talk too fast / too slow
 Don’t be too very rigid
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32. Bad Slides
 Too much of text on each slide (78%)
 The speaker reads the slides (62%)
 Text too small to read (47%)
 Text hard to see because of bad color choice (43%)
 Full sentences instead of bullet points (39%)
 Too many fonts and too many colors
 Moving/flying text or graphics
 Distracting animation (25%)
 Annoying use of sounds
 Overly complex diagrams or charts (22%)
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Eight Attributes:
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Ideas -- need not be original, but express them originally
Purpose – recognize in advance and adopt (to entertain, motivate, convince, inform, instruct)
Material – facts and opinions, organize
Consideration -- know your audience and adopt
Delivery – voice, loudness, intonation, emphasis and pauses
Control – be calm, confident and think ahead
Language – colorful words, short sentences
Personality – be natural, sincere and convincing
Presentations become vivid when you present them energetically and dramatically.
Your body language should be supportive and positive. Help your audience visualize your ideas by making them concrete.
Use audio-visual aids whenever necessary. However, never overdose your presentation with unnecessary and excessive animations which distract your audience’s attention till they are lost and miss the point you make.
Similarly, excessive body language also distracts and sometimes even upsets the audience.
The four phases of Presentation Skills are Plan, Prepare, Practice and Present.
To plan your presentation, you not only need to know what you are going to talk about, but you should also thoroughly understand why you are making the presentation and whom you are going to speak to.Â
Preparing includes researching your subject and gathering all available and relevant information.
The importance of practising cannot be overemphasized. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
Making a well organized and successful presentation is the final stage.Use descriptive words (metaphors) to trigger sensory cortex in your brain.Â
Here are the six guidelines I would like to give you to help you make an effective presentation.
1. Be prepared.
2. Be organized.
3. Be clear.
4. Be vivid.
5. Be natural.
6. Be crisp.
Let us now discuss each one of these guidelines in details.
Do not distract the audience with unnecessary movement, irritating prop words and irrelevant body language. Pacing in panic, standing cross-armed or standing hands-in-pockets, playing with coins or keys in your pockets, turning away from the audience and talking into a visual aid, gestures irrelevant to the message--all of these distract the audience from the speech and should be avoided.
Bad presentations:Skip the practice sessions.Read from your slides verbatim.
Stare at your notes, handouts, or the floor.
Speak in monotone.
Talk really fast, then really slowly.
Assume your audience knows as much as you do.
Take questions at the end of your presentation only.
Fail to have a backup plan
Jam as much information into the slides as possible.
Avoid the use of visuals.
Use plenty of animations—just because you can.
Use transitions arbitrarily.
Use tiny, hard-to-read fonts.
Choose color schemes at random.
Don't proofread.
Forget the feedback.
Use real objects, charts, pictures, video clippings, slideshows to support what you wish to say. Your audience retains what they see and listen much longer than what they just hear. Well used visual aids leave a lasting impact on the audience.
But be warned that each visual aid should be relevant to the presentation and properly introduced. Don’t use an aid because it is good, but only if it helps you make a point more convincingly and more effectively. A presentation without any aids is better than a presentation with irrelevant aids.
Another note – when you are showing the aid to the audience, don’t face the screen or wall and forget the audience. Face them and draw their attention to what you want them to see.