It’s all in the presentation
It’s all in the
PRESENTATION
Creating and presenting your slides
NED POTTER + Steph Jesper
Giving presentations
Giving presentations is an � increasingly important part of being a � student. You may need to present as part of � your modules, it may form part of your � assessment, and you’ll definitely � need to present as part of � job interviews.
Presentation materials
Do you need presentation materials at all?
Option 1: nothing.
Option 2:
FLIPCHART
Good for: �agility, surveying �the room as you �go along, �sketchnotes
Notes
The handout
Option 3: The Handout
Good for: details. Quotes, stats, graphs
Risky though – are you working with your handout,
or competing with it?
Prezi
Good for freshness, non-linear story-telling.
Bad for the medium becoming the message, people feeling a bit sick.
Option 4: Prezi
Interactivity
Kahoot or Menti can be used for free to create a truly interactive presentation
Option 5: Quiz
Google Slides
(Or more specifically, Google Q&A)
Option 6
Great for collaboration
Google’s own alternative to PPT. Free, and in the Cloud.
Slides pros & cons
It is somewhat limited compared with PPT – you can a lot less control and it doesn’t work as intuitively.
However you can always get to your presentation (no more USB stick crises!), you can collaborate on presentations very easily, and most importantly involve, it has a Q&A mode that allows you to be interactive.
Slides Q&A
If you’re able to use a second screen (normally this only happens when you use a laptop with the projector) you can take questions from your audience as you go along.
Q&A example
You can Present any question you choose as a Slide at any time
Then there’s PowerPoint
Option 7: PowerPoint
Question
Think about the
best and worst presentations �you’ve ever seen.
�What was so good / �bad about them?
Death by PowerPoint
Ultimately we’re trying to avoid
“a phenomenon caused by the poor use of presentation software. Key contributors to death by PowerPoint include confusing graphics, slides with too much text and presenters whose idea of a good presentation is to read 40 slides out loud”�whatis.com
Death by PowerPoint:
Part A
PART A: THE GOLDEN RULES
5 golden rules
Keep these 5 golden rules in mind and you
WILL have a presentation which sticks.
Simple
Golden rule 1:
KEEP IT SIMPLE
Presentation materials should aim to be clean, consistent, and to support your story.
No white noise!
The essentials
IT’s .about
GETTING RID
OF
EVEYTHING THAT ISN’T
ESSENTIAL
TO TELLING
YOUR STORY.
.about
The bare essentials
IT’s .about
GETTING RID
OF
EVEYTHING THAT ISN’T
ESSENTIAL
TO TELLING
YOUR STORY.
.about
Our evidence base
Dr Richard Mayer
UC Santa Barbara
Researcher of 4 Multimedia Learning Principles which inform these golden rules
Coherence
COHERENCE
Learning is improved when multimedia is free from extraneous information
Extraneity
SO, WHAT COUNTS AS EXTRANEOUS?
For the sake of it...
ANIMATIONS?
TRANSITIONS?
TEMPLATES?
If they’re there for the sake of it, they will get in the way of your story. Use them wisely, if at all.
SO, WHAT COUNTS AS EXTRANEOUS?
No more bullets
GOLDEN RULE 2:
Bullet wounds
Bullets cause all sorts of problems!
A typical PowerPoint slide
Redundancy
REDUNDANCY
Learning is reduced when information presented is redundant – such as reading text verbatim from slides
(it drains parallel processing capacity!)
The research sez...
If that doesn’t convince you, maybe the research will
“Subjects who were exposed to a graphic representation of the strategy paid significantly more attention to, agreed more with, and better recalled the
strategy than did subjects who saw a (textually identical) bulleted list version.”
No, really...
If that doesn’t convince you, maybe the research will
“Subjects who were exposed to a graphic representation of the strategy paid significantly more attention to, agreed more with, and better recalled the
strategy than did subjects who saw a (textually identical) bulleted list version.”
Not only that, they liked the presenter more when they didn’t use bullets!
Caveat
NB: Bullets in written and printed documents are
absolutely fine! The problems come when your
PowerPoint is basically a document on a screen.
One point per slide
GOLDEN RULE 3:
Make one point per slide
Signalling
SIGNALING
Learning is improved when attention is focused on important parts of the presentation with cues highlighting key material
Ways of signalling
you can use
to emphasise key points on each slide
colour and
font-size
Break the rules
Of course, feel free to break the one point per slide rule with good reason.
Stack sometimes
INTRODUCTIONS
SUMMARIES
COMPARISONS
All of these things can require stacking on the same slide.
Room to breathe
But otherwise give each point in your presentation
ROOM TO BREATHE
Fonts
GOLDEN RULE 4:
big, fresh fonts
Types of font
Serif: e.g. Times New Roman
Traditional; formal; characterised by the little lines coming
off the edges (“serifs”); best suited to print
THE FOUR FONT CATEGORIES
Script: e.g. Brush Script
Resembles hand-writing, best for… wedding invitations? Cursive fonts are not good for accessibility
Decorative: eg exotica
Informal; fun; good for accents but not regular use
Sans-Serif: e.g. Raleway
Modern; less formal; no serifs (hence the name); best for digital
Cultural associations
Fonts make a HUGE difference
(Comic Sans – the horror!)
Get your fonts...
So many great free fonts from
Font tip: save your presentation as a PDF, both when presenting and uploading to Slideshare, to preserve non-standard fonts
Font size
SIZE MATTERS
This is font size 24.
It is the absolute minimum font size you can EVER use
in a presentation!
TMI
SIZE MATTERS
(If you need it to be smaller there’s too much information to fit on one slide anyhow…)
Keep it snappy
GOLDEN RULE 5:
Less text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
Get some snaps
More images
All teh PPT
Some stats:
Every second, 350 PPTs are given around the world!
People remember around 10% of what they hear.
PPT is visual
Some stats:
Every second, 350 PPTs are given around the world!
People remember around 10% of what they hear.
But up to 65% of what they hear AND see.
Relevancy
RELEVANT images help people learn.
Stay relevant
IRRELEVANT images
actually decrease learning…
Contiguity
SPATIAL & TEMPORAL
CONTIGUITY
Learning improves when words are placed near, and narration occurs simultaneously with, relevant pictures
Pexels
The abundance of amazing image sites out there means you should never have to pay, and you should never need to ignore copyright
Pixabay
Photofunia
Photofunia some more
Isolation
‘Isolated images’ are pictures which have had the background removed, so can be placed anywhere on the slide
Isolated images
‘Isolated images’ are pictures which have had the background removed, so can be placed anywhere on the slide
An isolated cat
So isolated
Isolated in a social setting
Remove background
The most recent PowerPoint has a ‘Remove Background’ function which is absolutely brilliant for creating your own isolated images…
Isolate yrself
The most recent PowerPoint has a ‘Remove Background’ function which is absolutely brilliant for creating your own isolated images…
Kitten isolation
The most recent PowerPoint has a ‘Remove Background’ function which is absolutely brilliant for creating your own isolated images…
Summary
Coherence:
lose anything you don’t need�
Signalling:
one point per slide, and use colour and font-size to establish key messages�
Redundancy:
no need for bullet points, don’t read out your slides�
Spatial & Temporal Contiguity:
support your arguments with relevant images
Part B
PART B: MAKING SLIDES
The full-screen image method
The full-screen image slides method
Text and image
Find a suitable image and make it the
background of your slide. Then insert a text box.
Here’s the slide title
It’s helpful for a slide to have a title, but if you don’t want it visible you can move it out of view →
Keep it legible
It’s essential the text is legible: often you’ll need to fill the text box with a contrasting colour
Copyspace
(Although sometimes
if there’s suitable
copyspace you can
write directly onto the
slide)
Pros
This method is visually arresting, makes the most of the images, encourages one point per slide, and avoids Death by PowerPoint.
Conventional image placement
Words here, small picture there
Full-screen image placement
Words here,
full size picture
Format background
The secret is to right-click and format the slide background as an image
An example
For example…
Your go
YOUR
TURN
Accessibility
Making accessible slides
Large sans-serif fonts
Font choice
Making accessible slides
This is too small��
This is too serify�
This is absolutely hopeless
Big fonts
Making accessible slides
Large sans-serif fonts
High contrast text over
non-busy backgrounds
Contrast
Making accessible slides
This background is too busy for this thickness of font
Two colours of a related hue on top of one another is bad
Not enough contrast is bad
More than colour
Making accessible slides
Large sans-serif fonts
High contrast text over
non-busy backgrounds
Make sure colour isn’t the only thing conveying key information
Colour pros and cons
Making accessible slides
High contrast text over
non-busy backgrounds
Low contrast over busy backgrounds
No fuss
Making accessible slides
Large sans-serif fonts
High contrast text over
non-busy backgrounds
Make sure colour isn’t the only thing conveying key information
Simple transitions and animations
Making accessible slides
Large sans-serif fonts
High contrast text over
non-busy backgrounds
Make sure colour isn’t the only thing conveying key information
Simple transitions and animations
Title text
(use placeholders
even if they’re not on the slide)
Most importantly...
Always
Use
The
MIC
Part D
PART D: THE
MECHANICS
OF SLIDE CREATION
Part E
Presenting
itself
PART E:
Presenting
Presenting
itself
PART E:
Suggestions
Some suggestions from Twitter for the most annoying things presenters do…
The classics
The classics
“Put an essay on each slide and READ IT ALL. VERY SLOWLY.”
“Read from a script.”
“Going overtime.”
“cram too much in, and then say ...erm... I'll just skip over these slides.... usually the more interesting ones at the end”
The harsh
The harsh
“Typos *kill* me. (Nb: not literally)”
“Sway.”
“Cry.”
The insightful
The insightful
“Speaking away from the mic.”
“Try to fit 60 minutes of material into 25 minutes presenting time.”
“Ignore audience signals”
Don’t make me...
The unwelcome participatory
“Attempting to get me to stand up and engage in participation without first winning my cooperation?”
“Make me play a game.”
You can’t please everybody
The bizarre
“Not wear shoes.”
“Swirl each word with a laser pointer as they say it.”
“jangling the loose change in their pockets. A least I hope that's what they're doing......”
Choose your turf...
Present with a laptop if you can…
Presenter view
3:3:3
If you’re struggling to structure the presentation, try the 3:3:3 method.
A structured presentation is 40% easier to remember than an unstructured one
Don’t forget to breathe
Things which help presenters keep calm and banish the nerves include: �a deep breath before you speak
not memorising your presentation
having practiced, out-loud, like you mean it
(And no self-critiquing during your presentation!)
Clickers
A slide clicker is actually really worth it… set yourself free!
Your notes
Reading it out is hard to do well. If you have to, only write on the top third of the paper.
Useful notes
Reading it out is hard to do well. If you have to, only write on the top third of the paper.
Also, mark up your paper with stage directions!
Strong voice, take it slow!
Pause after intro
Remember to breathe!!!
Sip of water?
The audience are on your side
It’s important to remember �the audience are on your side!
Look each of them in the eye then �return to the most supportive.
Don’t self-critique
It’s important to remember �the audience are on your side!
Look each of them in the eye then �return to the most supportive.
(And no self-critiquing during your presentation!)
Enjoy it!
Finally, as well as being a great �opportunity, presenting can be really fun, so
try to find a way to enjoy it…
(And no self-critiquing during your presentation!)
The end.
Thanks for coming along!
Images in this presentation are CC-zero
Sourced via finda.photo, Pixabay, Gratisography, Photofunia and Pexels