Effective Slide Show Presentation

1. Effective Slide Show Presentation

2. “With his deep experience in teaching the assertion-evidence design of presentation slides, Peter Heath is on the cutting edge of technical presentations. If engineer and scientists would follow the slides design that Peter Heath teaches, their presentations would be more understandable, more memorable, and more persuasive. That is particularly true when either the presenter or the audience are non-native speakers of English” Michael Alley, Penn State University, USA

3. Preparing for the presentation When you prepare a presentation notice that there are three factors that affect the presentation: • the audience • Experts, who know a lot about the subject • Semi-experts, who have some knowledge • Novices who know nothing so that you have to explain everything really well • the purpose of presentation • Persuade someone to do something • Teach or inform about something new • Inspire people to do better

4. Preparing for the presentation • Understand the level of formality: presenting to a government department is much more formal than presenting to colleagues at work • Format • Sometimes it is better just to talk than show bad slides • Size • How big is the audience and the room? You might have to use a microphone or change font size • Time • 2 minutes per slide • stick to the time limit • Cost • Time is money (audience, presenter) • Poor slides is a waste of time and money