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Making your Content Sing! A Practical Guide to Effective PresentationsThursday, May 14, 2015

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DIGITAL DIALOGUE 9Making your Content Sing!

A Practical Guide to Effective Presentations

Fire Drill Presentation

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Oh no fire!

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Step 1Create a safety committee. The committee should include at least one representative of each department of the business, and the group should name one representative from each department as the team leader. The team leader is responsible for ensuring his team evacuates the building, and he must meet team members at a predetermined location outside the building.

Step 2Provide evacuation information to all employees before drills begin. Employees must know the evacuation path for their work area, and the alternative paths in the event an exit is blocked. Create evacuation signs and post them throughout the building. Employees should also receive information on how to report a fire and use a fire extinguisher, as well as whom to contact in an emergency.

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Step 4Conduct regular fire drills, but don't overdo it. For initial training purposes, hold drills every two weeks for a short period of time. After the training period, a fire drill every three months is sufficient. Holding drills more frequently can cause your employees to become complacent, and some might refuse to participate. It is also hard to hold a surprise fire drill if they are too frequent.

Making your Content Sing! A Practical Guide to Effective Presentations

What’s the foolproof way to make this happen?

1. Slides: Images and little text...

2. Handouts: Further Information not on slides

3. Presenter:

The Lecturer

The Entertainer

The Motivational Speaker

The Educator

4. Presentation Tools

5. Tips and Tricks

It’s all about Edutainment

Yellow Rules!

Colours in presentations

increase willingness to read and

motivation to participate by 80%

Colour improves retention by more

than 75%

Of all the 16.7 million colours the

human eye can see, goes to yellow

first

• Lowercase letters are faster to read• Large groups need larger sized fonts• The typeface you select should match your

presentation content

Rule of Thumb:

Serif Fonts for Headings

Sans Serif for Body

Question One?Try and recall a presentation that you gave or saw when images made a presentation more effective.

What do you remember and why?

Adam Bellow’s Tech Commandments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vevGmzmWnI

Images• The best way to foster learning

involves BOTH words and images

• Visuals improve learning only if they are illustrating the point you are making

• First slide is on for the longest, leaves the lasting impression

Rose

The 4 StepsFind a text only slide in your archives. Take it through the four step process;

1. Select a slide with too many words

2. Highlight ONE key word per bullet

3. Remove all other text

4. Add an image

Handouts“Words can only recall images we’ve already seen”

The handout should be your running record of what you’ve seen and experienced in the presentation.

They transform what I think is important for you to learn and remember.

Handout Scorecard•Limit handout to one page, double sided

•Use two columns

•Use black and white images from presentation

•Use graphic elements to signal topic changes

•Display contact info.

•Include URLs

•Post digital versions

•Create supplemental material to post

The Presenter

The Lecturer

Keep it short

Keep the focus

Keep it lively

The Entertainer

Entertainment is necessary , but not at the expense of your content. The message is what matters after all.

The Motivational Speaker

Inspires and has an impact both short and long term

The Educator

Combines them all in a seamless fashion that empowers the audience to retain and transfer content

Digital Tools

Changing the face of your presentations…Making them free, sharable, cross-platform, collaborative, unique, and highly engaging…

Tips and TricksLimit Bullets

Stand to the left of your screen when presenting

Limit animation and transitions

Animate yourself not the slide

Be passionate about your content, after all you’re the expert!

In Summary• Colors, text and font matter - Simplify

• Tell your story with Images - Limit Text

• Be concise - Stay on Point

• Create a Handout for each presentation

• Connect with audience - Keep it Real

• Relax and have Fun!

• They Snooze, You Lose by Lynell Burmark

• Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds

• All resources are in Google Drive for using and sharing

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