When developing your presentation, think about these questions: “Why is this important?” “What question does this answer?” “What can others do with this information?” It is important to focus on presenting information (or a tool) that participants in your audience can take home, and use at their campus. The presentation resources listed below may help you create an inspiring and well received presentation.
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“The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint” by Edward R. Tufte
In this essay, Professor Tufte discusses why PowerPoint is “a competent slide manager and projector for low-resolution materials. And that’s about it.” Do read this booklet and enjoy the “Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation.”
“Don’t Make Me Think” by Steve Krug
Although this book’s primary topic is Web usability, it contains many useful lessons for developing presentations. The last few chapters discuss usability test, and the lesson here of presentations is to practice presenting your presentation multiple times with a multiple number of people well before your actual presentation.
“Really Bad PowerPoint (and how to avoid it)” by GarrReynolds.com
Strong presentation skills and the ability to engage and connect can truly set you a part from the crowd. This Website offers free tips and resources, including organization & preparation tips, delivery tips, and slide tips.
“Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck: And how you can make them better” by Rick Altman
Excellent Book on how to do it “right.” Comprehensive lessons on choosing backgrounds, using animation, the appropriate use of bullets, and selecting and using images. Every IR professional should have a copy of Rick’s book.
“Make your PowerPoint Presentation Accessible to People with Disabilities” by Microsoft
This website gives you step-by-step instructions and best practices for making your PowerPoint presentations accessible and unlock your content to everyone, including people with disabilities. PowerPoint has many features built-in that help people with different abilities to read and author documents. In this topic, you learn, for example, how to work with the Accessibility Checker to tackle accessibility issues while you’re creating your presentation. You’ll also learn how to add alt texts to images so that people using screen readers are able to listen to what the image is all about. You can also read about how to use slide design, fonts, colors, and styles to maximize the inclusiveness of your slides before you share or present them to your audience.
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