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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
This is not a cast- in- concrete rule and will depend on the ’shape’ of the visual content that you add.
Now that you have the assertion worked out, the next step is to add visual evidence. Expressing an idea visually as well as verbally makes it more likely that the audience will understand it and remember it. It’s called the Assertion-Evidence Format and it was developed by Professor Michael Alley (I’ve mentioned it previously but somehow never devoted a whole post to it).
BTW, if you’ve downloaded and read my Presentation Planning
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Chris tested the effects of using two different types of PowerPoint slides in a presentation. The audience member has to read the words on the slide and listen to the presenter at the same time, leading to overloading of the language areas whilst leaving the visual cortex with very little to do:
The visual cortex is involved in reading the words on the screen - it works on the lines and features to assemble the words that are being read, but it’s not really being used At last, we have some scientifically rigorous evidence to show that slides full of bullet-points don’t work.
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Presentations are only as good as the idea, visuals and delivery. Some visual thinkers challenged me to write a very short presentation about the power of visual thinking during these tough economic times. And here’s the PowerPoint file if you want to deconstruct it!
So I whipped out our presentation map and got to work. First, I considered my audience.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
would love to see more tools available which work within the most common slideware – PowerPoint and Keynote. Both Keynote and PowerPoint have add-ins which allow you to automatically send a tweet when you click on a slide. There is an add-in to do this with PowerPoint 2007 called Slide Tweet , but you need Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio Tools for Office. Presenting while people are tweeting is challenging – but also adds a new dimension to the presentation experience for your audience. Gradually tools are being developed to make it easier for you as the
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Monday, May 18, 2009
With all the recent emphasis on the design of your PowerPoints (Keynote for the Mac), it's time to revisit the fact that your visuals are NOT your presentation. think that the emphasis on PowerPoints (we'll call them PP for brevity) is because 2008 WAS a great year for great design with the publication of Garr Reynolds' book "Presentation Zen" and Nancy Duarte's "slide:ology" (both still best sellers on Amazon.) You and your Point of View are the centerpiece. I
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Research carried out by Stephen Mahar, Ulku Yaylacicegi and Thomas Janicki found that students who were shown an animated PowerPoint slideshow learnt less than those that saw a non-animated slideshow.
When I first read of the research on Science Daily Could PowerPoint presentations be stifling learning? The PowerPoint custom animation they used
I thought that simple, non-distracting animations that brought in slide elements one at a time as I verbally introduced them was helpful. I
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
For example, including this Dilbert strip in a presentation about creating better PowerPoint slides:
If the cartoon is “on-message” you will be reinforcing your point with an apt and powerful visual – this is priceless and highly likely to be retained by the audience.
Tags: Powerpoin I was reviewing a technical presentation for a client. The topic was the latest dental procedures.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
You’ve read Presentation Zen and Slideology and you’re convinced about the benefits of using visually-engaging PowerPoint slides when you present. When you present, demonstrate the effectiveness of presenting with visual slides. Suggest that they also have hard-copy notes (which is a useful back-up for technology failure anyway) and that they gradually transition from using their Powerpoint But everyone else in your organization stubbornly sticks to the bullet-point slides. How can you persuade them to change their minds?
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Using social media tools like Twitter , you can play a game of "Logical Fallacy Bingo" as you watch slick presenters play fast and loose with the rules of logic. Here's how to play: Just for grins, let's cover some examples of logical fallacies that we often hear about PowerPoint -- the tool many love to hate. Therefore, presenters should use PowerPoint slides as teleprompters during live-audience presentations. " photo credit: brew ha ha This argument, of course, is the fallacy of "False Analogy". Use emotion to connect to your audience. It's
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
During the last month I have seen some seriously challenged PowerPoint Slide decks. But I’ve recently noticed there are still pockets of stubborn “old school” PowerPoint users who simply refuse to change. Most people know what a poorly constructed and staged PowerPoint presentation can be. Part 1: The Seven Deadly Sins
For a while there things were looking up in Silicon Valley; people were using more pictures, less text, more color, and congruent graphs.
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