Creating Effective Electronic Slideshows

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Creating EffectiveElectronic Slideshows
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• Purpose of a slide show
• Capture and hold audiences attention.
• You have 8 seconds.
• Convey information and ideas effectively.
• Present yourself in a professional manner.
• Sell, inform, teach, motivate, persuade.

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• You must
• Gain their attention.
• Help them to comprehend the message.
• Bring them to agreement.
• Induce them to retain the message.

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General Rules 1. Have something to say. 2.
Say it well. 3. Say it like you mean it. 4.
No amount of technology will help you with Rule
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• Why electronic slide shows?
• More efficient and more editable.
• More professional.
• Greater retention.
• Easier to grab audiences attention.
• Files can be imported.
• Slideshow can be shared.

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• Slide show construction
• Plan, plan, plan.
• Put key objectives as titles to slides.
• Remember KISS.
• 36 words no more than 6 - 8 lines.
• No more than 5 points or bullets per slide.

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• About 7 words per line maximum.
• Use charts to make points pictorially.
• Use quality clipart, and use sparingly.
• More visual, less verbal shorter meeting time.
  
• Dont waste time with unnecessary screens.

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• Slide show appearance
• KISS again gawdy is brutal simple is elegant.
• Audience focuses on your message not on the
  presentation.
• Keep show uncluttered.
• Speaker is the focus graphic is the support.

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• Colour
• One background colour scheme stick to it.
• Light text on dark background best contrast.
• Limit base colours to 3 or 4 and use
  consistently.
• Graphs/maps should have 5 colours maximum.

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• Fonts
• 3 fonts maximum (preferably 1).
• Dont overuse emphasis features (bold, italics,
  caps).
• Use Bullets to organize your thoughts
• Font size 18pt or larger (this is 28).
• Headlines 35 - 45 pt or larger.
• Sans serif fonts (this is Arial) are easier to
  read when projected.

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• Sound
• Keep clips brief.
• Use only good ones.
• Use only appropriate ones.
• Keep volume levels consistent.

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• Actual Presentation
• Dont expect inspect.
• Test out the presentation on actual equipment,
  well before.
• 81 rule. 8 foot screen from 64 feet away.
• Stand at 45 degree angle to audience.
• Focus.

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• Do not read off screen.
• Speak clearly, dont rush.
• Speak to back of audience.
• Dont compete with audio.
• Proofread visuals backwards.
• A bird in the the hand.

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• Avoid nervous movement, fiddling.
• Avoid nervous movement, fiddling.
• Smile.
• Eye contact.
• Watch hand movement.
• Breathe.

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• Rehearse with a live, but friendly audience.
• Rehearse with a live, but friendly audience.
• Run through 3 times minimum but no more than 6.
• Have the last slide say The End!.

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The End!