using visual aids
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USING VISUAL AIDS. Why Use Visual Aids?. Clarity Interest Retention Credibility Persuasiveness. Visual aids. objects. drawings. models. photographs. c harts & graphs. v ideos , P owerPoint , etc. o r someone else!. yourself. And here’s the. MOST IMPORTANT. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
USING VISUAL AIDS
Why Use Visual Aids?• Clarity• Interest• Retention• Credibility• Persuasiveness
Visual aidsobjects
models
photographs
drawings
charts & graphs
videos, PowerPoint, etc.
yourself
or someone
else!
And here’s the
rule for slide presentations:MOST IMPORTANT
No more than FIVE lines of text
“ 5 and 6”
No more than SIX words per line!
There’s nothing more boring……than having to sit through a speaker who has the ENTIRE TEXT of
their speech (or a rough approximation of it) written out on a slide…
which means that the audience gets to listen to the speaker drone on
and on and on and on… and READ the entire slide to them while the
audience is also reading the slide…or, even better, when the speaker
has obviously downloaded something from the Web… and just pasted
it onto their slide…and the font is so tiny there’s not a human being in
existence who could possibly read it when it’s projected on a slide.
Now, wasn’t that fun and interesting???
AARRUGGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BE SURE YOUR VISUALS ARE LARGE ENOUGH
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DISPLAY YOUR VISUALS ONLY WHILE YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT THEM
PRACTICE USING YOUR VISUALS IN ADVANCE
AVOID GIVING HANDOUTS DURING YOUR SPEECH
AVOID USING THE WHITE-BOARD
MAKE SURE YOUR AUDIENCE CAN SEE YOUR VISUALS
TALK TO YOUR AUDIENCE, NOT YOUR VISUAL NO HATS!
EXPLAIN YOUR VISUALS
Some Examples of Visual Aids…
Video and Audio Clips
• Keep video clips short (30-45 seconds maximum)
• Integrate clip into your speech so it
• Make sure audio isn’t so that it drowns out your voice
• OK to “talk over” video if explaining
LOUD
Photographs
The old train station in Applegate, c. 1900
Pictures or Drawings
Pictures or Drawings
Graphs
Pie ChartsSales
1st Qtr2nd Qtr3rd Qtr4th Qtr
Bar Graphs
Descriptive Charts