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How to make a good presentation

Khadija El Atri

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  • Introduction
  • Organization
  • Command of subject
  • Visual Aids
  • Delivery
  • Balance
  • Conclusion
  • Overall effectiveness

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  • Brief outline

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  • Be clear about your message
    • What is your topic?
    • Why is it important?

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  • Overview of the key points

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  • Clear arrangement of ideas

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  • Present in a logical sequence

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  • Prompt interest

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  • Stay within the allotted time

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  • Emphasize key points
    • Message must be clear

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  • Be informative

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  • Short biographies present basic facts

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  • Make appropriate use of pictures

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  • Keep backgrounds simple

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  • Gain audience’s attention (Body language / tone of voice)

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  • Rehearse your presentation
    • Practice, Practice, Practice

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  • Stay connected with the audience

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  • Keep a steady pace

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  • Vocal variation (volume, pitch, accent, pause)

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  • Effective communication:
    • 7 % words
    • 38% voice / vocal variety
    • 55% body language

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  • Presentation layout
    • Clear, large font;
    • 2/3 technical & 1/3 biographical aspects
    • Cite your sources!

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  • Reinforce your message

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  • Ask questions

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  • Thank the audience for

attending

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  • Were your ideas clear?

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  • Did you stay on track?
    • Don't wander off on tangents

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  • Plan to succeed

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  • Time management (4 min)
  • Eye contact
  • Audience response (speaking too fast/ too slow)
  • Express enthusiasm
  • Less is more!

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Things to avoid

Fidgeting.

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Reading off your paper.

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Giggling

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Hiding behind your paper.

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Don’t hold big pieces of paper, as shaking becomes obvious.

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Confidence Boosters

The audience are on your side.

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Know your topic thoroughly.

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Make sure you have eaten something.

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Get a good night’s sleep the night before.

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Smile, breathe and relax.

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Basic Power Point Guidelines

  • For projection…
    • Light text on a semi-dark background.
    • The eye is attracted to the light on the screen.
  • Stick with a single background.
    • The background is the stage for your information.
    • Set the stage and leave it alone!

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Basic Power Point Guidelines

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  • Don’t try to dazzle the audience with graphics or style…but with the information.
  • The medium is not the message.
  • The information is the message.

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Basic Power Point Guidelines

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  • Do not center bullet points.
  • It makes the text ragged.
  • And hard to read and follow with your eyes.
  • Generally, left-justify bullets.
  • This keeps things neat..
  • and easy to follow.

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Dos and Dont

Centered graphics leave little room for text.

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Dos and Dont

  • Place graphics off-center.
  • More room for text.
  • Better balance.
  • More pleasing to the eye.
  • Left placement leads the eye to the text.

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Dos and Dont

  • AVOID ALL CAPS – VERY HARD TO READ.

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  • First Cap - More Formal.
  • Harder To Type And More Decisions.
  • This is an example of capitalizing the first word.
  • Less formal.
  • Easier to type and fewer decisions

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Dos and Dont

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  • Italics are more difficult to read.
  • Use bold when you want some words to stand out.
  • Font size
    • Easy to read (18 pt)
    • Easy to read (24 pt)
    • Easy to read (32 pt)
    • Easy to read (48 pt)

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Dos and Dont

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  • Employ only a few..stick to familiar fonts
  • Stay away from gimmicky fonts unless for a theme.
  • Keep type sizes consistent.
  • Serif vs San Serif.
  • DON’T USE ALL CAPS.

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Dos and Dont

  • Having too much text on the screen can defeat the purpose of using PowerPoint. The slides begin to look like a jumble of text, making slides difficult to read and unrecognizable from each other. People will either try to read everything or copy everything down or they will lose interest. List only the key points. If you have more info to include use more slides or create handouts.

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Dos and Dont

  • One of the most common mistakes in creating a presentation is to place too much information on the screen. This can cause the reader to become distracted from the speaker…just like you are now. Audiences are much more receptive to the spoken word.

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  • Too much information.
  • Reader gets distracted
  • Audiences are much more receptive to the spoken word

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  • Make bulleted points easy to read.
  • Keep text easy to understand.
  • Use concise wording.
  • Bullets are focal points.
  • Presenter provides elaboration.
  • Keep font size large.

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Keep it simple..

Keep it simple..

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  • Stick with power point defaults.
  • What may look good on your computer may be unreadable in the classroom.
  • Remember to use strong, contrasting colors

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Use Contrasting Colors

  • Light colors on dark background.

Dark colors on light background.

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Clip Art & Graphics

  • A few excellent graphics are better than many poor ones.
  • Photographs can be powerful.
  • Use sparingly!

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Religious leader

Civil rights activist

Author/poet

Labor activist

Minister

Antiwar activist�

                                                                                                  

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Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Religious leader
  • Civil rights activist
  • Author/poet
  • Labor activist
  • Minister
  • Antiwar activist�

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Thank you for your attention

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