This document discusses enhancing presentations with visual aids. It begins by explaining how visuals can improve oral presentations by creating interest and helping audiences absorb and remember information. Popular types of visual aids discussed include electronic slides, overhead transparencies, chalkboards, flip charts, and other visuals. The document provides tips for effective slide design such as using structured or free-form styles, limiting text, adding graphics and modifying them for slides. It also discusses special effects, handouts, practice and delivery considerations, and tips for online presentations.

1. ENHANCING
PRESENTATIONS
WITH SLIDES AND
OTHER VISUALS
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2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Explain how visual enhance oral presentation and list
several popular types of individuals
• Explain the difference between structured and free form
of slides
• Explain the importance of design consistency in electronic
slides and other visuals
• Describe the effective use of transitions and builds in
electronic presentations
• Identify three types of non-content slides you can use to
support a presentation
• Highlight nine major issues to consider when you’re
preparing to give a presentation online
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3. PLANNING VISUALAIDS
• Visuals improve the quality and impact of an oral
presentation
• Visuals create interest and increase the audience ability
to absorb and remember information
• Visuals can improve learning
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4. TYPES OF VISUALAIDS
• Electronic slides
• Overhead transparencies
• Chalkboards and white boards
• Flip charts
• Other visuals
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5. VERIFYING YOUR DESIGN PLANS
• Review your plan carefully
• Making sure your words and visuals will work in
harmony
• Make sure about your presentation style
• Verify the message it needs to convey
• Let simplicity be your guide
• Use your time wisely
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6. CREATING EFFECTIVE SLIDES
• Always keep audience’s experience in mind
• Effective slides requires both rational and creative
instincts
• Write the text on the slide and then add graphics and
other visual elements
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7. CHOOSING SLIDE STYLE
STRUCTURED OR FREE-FORM SLIDES
– Elements of design
– Amount of content
– Number of slides
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8. USING STRUCTURED SLIDES
• ADVANTAGES:
– Fast and easy creation
– Complex data and ideas
– Standalone sense
• DISADVANTAGES:
– Text-heavy format
– Repetitive appearance
– Audience effects
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9. USING FREE-FORM SLIDES
• ADVANTAGES:
– Complement information
– Manage information
– Process information
• DISADVANTAGES:
– Creative demands
– Speaker demands
– Information cohesiveness
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10. WRITING READABLE CONTENT
• Limit each slide to one concept or idea
• Limit text content to four or five lines
• Don’t show a large number of text-heavy slides in one
row
• Write short bulleted phrases rather than long sentences
• Use sentences only when you nee to share a quotation
• Phrase list items in parallel grammatical form
• Use the active voice
• Include short, informative titles
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11. MODIFYING GRAPHICS FOR SLIDES
• Reduce the detail
• Keep it simple
• Shorten numbers
• Limit amount of data shown
• Highlight key points
• Adjust the size and design
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12. SELECTING DESIGN ELEMENTS
• Color schemes
• Background designs and artwork
• Fonts and type styles
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13. ACHIEVING DESIGN CONSISTENCY
• Color choices
• Font styles
• Design elements
• Titles and graphics
• formatting of fonts, images, bullet points, animations,
backgrounds, etc.
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14. ADDING SPECIAL EFFECTS
• Functional animation
• Transitions and builds
• Hyperlinks and action buttons
• Multimedia elements
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15. COMPLETING SLIDES AND SUPPORT
MATERIALS
Review your message and make sure that all visuals are
• Readable
• Consistent
• Simple
• Audience centered
• Clear
• Focused
• Fully operational
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16. CREATING EFFECTIVE HANDOUTS
• Complex charts and diagrams
• Articles and technical papers
• Summaries of case studies
• Lists of websites
• Copies of presentation slides
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17. PRACTICING YOUR DELIVERY
• Present your material naturally without
reading slides
• Check your equipment
• Track your time
• Pronounce all words clearly
• Introduce your slides
• Plan and prepare for questions and objectives
• Check message clarity
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18. GIVING PRESENTATION ONLINE
• Consider your alternatives
• Consider sending preview materials
• Keep your presentation simple
• Ask for feedback frequently
• Consider audience viewing experience
• Ensure audience can view the content
• Allow everyone to get connected
• Consider a moderator
• Engage the audience frequently
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