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PRESENTATION REVIEW. C REATING AND D ELIVERING T ECHNICAL P RESENTATIONS Dr. Ronald E. Jones. T HINGS T O T HINK A BOUT. The WoW Factor. You have to do a presentation. Don’t you just hate that?. The Last Worthless Slide. Never use a slide for just filling space while you talk!.
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CREATING ANDDELIVERINGTECHNICALPRESENTATIONSDr. Ronald E. Jones
THINGSTO THINKABOUT The WoW Factor
You have to do a presentation. Don’t you just hate that?
The Last Worthless Slide • Never use a • slide for just • filling space • while you talk!
Dollar $$$ Value What’s your presentation worth? Calculate VPH (Value Per Hour) • A. Project Value = $10,000 • B. Prep Time Allocated = 20 hours • $10,000 ÷ 20 = 500 Preparation Time Value = $500per hour
SOMEAUDIENCESTUFF The WoW Factor
Your Audience • Are they Prepared • Are they Unprepared • Their Interest Level • Their Comfort Level • Forced to Attend • Working the Crowd
The Audience • A Prepared Audience • Do not underestimate • Assume low–to–high, but mostly high expertise • Speaker must be prepared
Your Audience • An Unprepared Audience • May lose interest rapidly • Assume mostly low expertise • Assume some high expertise • Speaker must be broadly prepared
Your Audience • What is their Interest Level • Identify their interests • Keep interest up • Listen to the audience • Watch the audience
Your Audience • What is their Comfort Level • Avoid “techno–jargon” • Don’t go over their heads
Your Audience • Are they Forced to Attend • Classic “forced-attendance” situation at work or Won’t this be fun?
Your Audience • Working the Crowd • Humor • Involvement • Eye contact
What’s Your Point? • Your Purpose • Inform • Instruct • Convince • Activate
PLANNINGTHESETHINGS The WoW Factor
Presentation Formula • ANSVA • Attention • Need • Satisfaction • Visualization • Action
How Long? • Presentation Length • Planning • Writing
Planning Tools • Non-Linear Thinking • Outlining • Storyboarding
Non-Linear Thinking • Brainstorming • Telling a story
Outline View The Outline View is created automatically and without graphics as you add new slides. Use this view to check sequence, logic, and “flow” of information.
Storyboarding Tools • For the visually oriented • Popular with designers • Great visual planner
Storyboard Techniques Your Audience Your Audience Your Audience • Prepared • Unprepared • Interest Level • Comfort Level Your Audience Your Audience Your Audience
Storyboard Tools A screen shot of the slide sorter
MEDIAANDEQUIPMENTINFO The WoW Factor
Media • Presentation Boards • Overheads • Slides • Computer • DLP Projectors
Presentation Boards • Freestanding • Mobile • Low Cost • Touchable • Easily Damaged
Overheads • Use with no light control • B & W are inexpensive • Never write on them • Horizontal format only • 6 by 6 constraint
Overheads - More No No! What you are about to see is a real transparency, used in a real presentation, to a real audience. It really looked like this. Really!
Slides • Use with light control • Best possible color • Easily replaceable • Horizontal format only • 6 by 6 constraint
Computer • Dynamic – Constant Replay • Strong Color • Small Audience
DLP Projectors • Good images • Great for animation such as “Builds” • Equipment to set up • Better Brightness • Most expensive
High Low Presentation Boards Overheads Slides Computer LCD/ DLP Media—Failure Factor
THE REALTECHNICALSTUFF The WoW Factor
Technical Production • Layout • Color • Format • Type • Line Art • Photographs • Animation
Layout—Master Pages • Efficient • Consistent • Easy
Backgrounds—Light • Dark background with light type • Light background with dark type
Color • Don’tover-use • Relyoncolorschemes • Talkto adesigner, please! • Black-and-white can be really effective
Formatting Type • Flush Left – Ragged Right • Flush Right – Ragged Left • Centered • Justified
There are various options with type alignment. Flush left with ragged right is the easiest way to read a line of type printed on a sheet of paper. Formatting Type • Flush Left - Ragged Right
Great for titles. May look unique but is hard to read for normal text. Use sparingly. See example on next slide. Formatting Type • Flush Right - Ragged Left
Great for titles or alternative layout techniques but difficult to read for normal text especially if the presenter utilizes lengthy wording with narrow columns. Formatting Type • Centered
With both sides of the column even, justified text significantly enhances gaps in the text and may occasionally lead to odd word spacing. Do not use. Formatting Type • Justified
Working with Type • Must Be Easy to Read • Type Size • Type Style
Type Sizes 72 point 60 point 44 point 36 point 28 point 24 point 18 point 14 point 12 point 10 point
48 point 40 point 32 point Type Sizes • Easy to Read • Type Size
Serif Little “feet” on the type. Serif type - bold Serif type - bold italic Type Styles Sans serif Sans serif - bold Sans serif - bold italic