What is your definition of "Good Presentation" or "Interesting Presentation" ?
Which one is more important in your opinion: Content or Presenting Styles?
And, regarding the style of presentation - there is a lot of literature that teaches you how to present in a successful way … please consult it! Here I will stress only these (according to my experience) most important facts:
1. Make very clear transparencies with max 5-7 key facts to comment.
2. Never read the text from transparencies. If you read then people will think you are not prepared for the presentation. In fact, people will read the transparency faster for themselves and be bored by your reading.
3. The text shall be telegraph style - you shall give the life to the key words.
4. Use more pictures, graphs, schemes ... instead of tables.
5. Remember - It is you that are presenting the matter/subject, not the PowerPoint or some other program! So, you are the star to shine not the PowerPoint!
And, if I may suggest, try to get a qualified opinion about your presentation from your colleagues before you go in front of big audience.
Dear Hossein! Try not to be amazed by miriad of animations and special (graphical) features - these merely distract attention and hide the real value of WHAT YOU HAVE TO TELL. Your presentation needs to be clear and informative and not a Las Vegas cartoon.
And, regarding the style of presentation - there is a lot of literature that teaches you how to present in a successful way … please consult it! Here I will stress only these (according to my experience) most important facts:
1. Make very clear transparencies with max 5-7 key facts to comment.
2. Never read the text from transparencies. If you read then people will think you are not prepared for the presentation. In fact, people will read the transparency faster for themselves and be bored by your reading.
3. The text shall be telegraph style - you shall give the life to the key words.
4. Use more pictures, graphs, schemes ... instead of tables.
5. Remember - It is you that are presenting the matter/subject, not the PowerPoint or some other program! So, you are the star to shine not the PowerPoint!
And, if I may suggest, try to get a qualified opinion about your presentation from your colleagues before you go in front of big audience.
Hi,
Try to not put too much information in one slide.Also the fewer the number of slides you use the better but this should not affect the quality and completion of the information you want to deliver to your audience. Lastly the presention time should not be short or too long to bore the audience.
Good luck.
… sorry, I forgot to stress even more:
never, but really NEVER, read from the transparencies (unless it is a direct citation). This gives a strong suggestion to the public that you are not prepared (or even that you might not be the author of the presentation!).
The public deserves to feel that YOU ARE THERE JUST FOR THEM. So pay more attention to the public and less to the (fanciness of the) transparencies!
I would agree with Boris Kompare's 5 points, plus I would add:
- try to add a graphic to capture the underlying message of each slide: browse the online library of free ClipArt for some good ideas
- if you are describing an environment, maximize your use of pictures, minimize text and dry numbers...better yet, put your text in your slide Notes, and as Boris said: be the star that lights up the life of the story!
Ask:
What I need communicate?
Who is my receptor?
What time and place conditions?
What happen if is disseminated? Is loss part of the information?
Then plane a presentation thinking in the minimal to communicate.
Care contrast, size of text, do not use regionalisms, plane more information to the version to consume free. Do not read, best comment. Use images of high impact. Control the abstraction in the representation.
Sorry my English :)
mainly trying to place "IDEOGRAMS" and simplifying the presentation to the maximum, otherwise it has given me much result, it is placed empty slides where I program to the end of my explanation a conceptual map of the above, hierarchical outline or image exit .
Also do not overshoot the 15 slides in my presentation, because it is proven that between the slide 7 through 12 the focus of public attention is lost.
For the development of a presentation is important to understand, as established Arlane with their questions on what to communicate? how to communicate and what information to convey. We must also consider aspects of eloquence and way to build ideas. In my view the PowerPoint presentations or other software (Keynote on Mac) should not saturate text or complicated diagrams, sometimes you have to remember that a picture is worth a thousand words. Francisco says of ideograms that can be useful. Another element that helps develop an interesting presentation concept maps are maps of ideas or well used open an opportunity to build presentations that capture public attention.
I see three styles of presentations:
1. You say the same that are you showing. I do not recommend (very bored) but this is ok to disseminate.
2. The locution complete the show. That is the most popular and easy, flexible, but... take care whit the abstraction level if your students will be use it in the individual study.
3. My preference: The show to capture the atention, the feeling, pure abstractions, good pictures, 0 words, ah.... the locution is the more important, you need be an artist.
Most important feature I believe is to make good links & connections among separate slides. Put aside the traditional way of kicking-off your presentation by saying something like: 'My presentation is divided into 3 main parts'. To put it simple, make the whole presentation in a story-telling manner (with evidence supported). For example, the topic for presentation is impacts of using technology in enhancing learning outcomes. First cover slide, start by saying why are concerned with learning outcomes...Starting from 2nd slide, because of these, what translates the concern into practice is X, Y, Z. Then you have found the impacts of tech in this (slides continued). Hope this helps!
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