The purpose of your presentation is to create change. Maybe you want your audience to take some action or at least think differently about your topic. A prerequisite is that they understand and remember what you say. There’s quite a bit of research about how to present information to maximize understanding and retention, but I’ll mention […]
Using PowerPoint for Best Educational Outcomes
Teachers use PowerPoint a lot! But how many use it well? How many of you have been students in a class during which the professor bored you with slide after slide of text? What type of presentations do the students of these teachers create when they go out into the world and get a job? […]
How do you convince your colleagues to present well?
Lisa Braithwaite has written a post, “Hitting a brick wall with resistant clients,” in which she says, the following: My fellow presentation experts Olivia Mitchell, Laura Bergells, Dave Paradi, Garr Reynolds, Cliff Atkinson, Jan Schultink, Jon Thomas, Jennifer Kammeyer, Ellen Finkelstein and others have been putting out bucketloads of excellent content about how to make […]
Banish Death by PowerPoint! My guest post at Rethink Presentations
I’ve written a short guest blog post for Oliver Adria’s Rethink Presentations blog. Oliver has such a great sense of design that it’s a pleasure just to look at his blog. (The reading is good, too!) As I point out, banishing Death by PowerPoint is pretty easy and I discuss just two simple principles. Yes, […]
A Death by PowerPoint story from Karen Carleton
Story from Karen Carleton, MEd, MS http://ca.linkedin.com/in/karencarleton I was with a consulting company and some hunting outfitters were giving presentations to natural resources board to back up their claims disputing government research that animal populations were dwindling, to maintain their businesses and livelihood (or delay closure of their businesses). One guy (a crazed rogue outfitter […]