Strategies for success
- Analyze how size & setup of room may affect your presentation
- Get off to a good start & end with big finish
- Connect with your audience ; relate to their needs
- Use humor, anecdotes, & personal stories to highlight points you want to drive home
Creating Multimedia Presentations
Advantages of using computer presentation programs
Preparing a presentation
- reaches multiple types of learners (visual, auditory, & kinesthetic)
- provides quick-look for speakers who need a reminder or guide to stay on track
- allows you to link your presentation to different sources (YouTube videos, other websites, music, etc.)
Keep these guidelines in mind when preparing:
Additional delivery methods...
- have a good research base
- know who they are, as well as their levels of interests, knowledge, & experience
knowing overall message of speech without formal preparation
- prepare your script in advance
- Know what you are presenting
- be consistent in alignment & font; graphics should figure into overall plan
- limit amount of text for each slide; be concise; use bullets
using notecards/outline (works best for most presenters)
- Practice! Practice! Practice!
Ch.13, Sec.4
What is it?
- show up early to test everything and "set your stage"
knowing your speech by heart ; presenting without aids
speech supplemented by special software, which allows the speaker to combine several kinds of visual & audio aids
Possible disadvantages
script made for support, but not necessarily to read word-for-word (teleprompter)
**As tech & audience demands increase, multimedia presentations are becoming more & more involved, necessary, & eye-catching**
- today's high-tech audience expects to constantly be entertained
- takes time to learn how to use equipment