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Enhancing Audience Engagement with Effective PowerPoint Presentations

This presentation explores the impact of PowerPoint as a presentation tool and offers strategies to enhance audience interest. It addresses common challenges in public speaking, including overcoming fears and breaking annoying habits. Key topics include understanding your audience, utilizing personal experiences, effective use of graphics and humor, and maintaining an engaging presentation style. Practical tips on content design, such as limiting colors and fonts, and techniques to manage nervousness are also discussed. The session includes a pretest and post-test to measure understanding and application of these strategies.

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Enhancing Audience Engagement with Effective PowerPoint Presentations

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  1. PowerPoint 411 By: Diane Meyer

  2. Overview (Intro) • Thesis statement: PowerPoint is a powerful presentation tool. • How do you increase audience’s interest? • Can public speaking be scary? • How to break those annoying habits.

  3. Pretest(What do you already know?) • What can you do to make a PowerPoint Presentation more interesting for your audience? • What can you do to make a PowerPoint Presentation boring? • Why don’t you want to put a different background on each slide?

  4. How can you increase the audience’s interest? • Know your audience • Personal experience • Graphics • Humor • Ask questions • Presentation style - face the audience, speak up, make eye contact

  5. Do you know your topic? • Identify information needed • Do I have enough information? • What keywords will get results? • Did I use the best sources for my information? • Watch Your CARBS • C= Currency (up-to-date) • A= Appropriateness & authority • R= Relevancy • B= Bias • S= Source • Does it make sense?

  6. Do I look nervous? • Practice, Practice, Practice • Breathe slowly and deeply • Nervousness is OK

  7. Why Keep it Simple?....because brains like consistency! • TMI! • Limit use of backgrounds, animation, and transitions • Limit use of colors (3 colors per slide) • Limit use of different fonts (1 or 2) • Use proper font size for your audience (>24) • Limit slides to 6 lines or 36 words

  8. Don’t be Annoying! • Animations • Sounds • CAPITAL LETTERS • Graphics

  9. Plan, Produce, Present • Complete your Storyboard • Content slides 4 - 6 should be completed 1st • Get approval of your storyboard before you begin your PowerPoint • Complete all typing before you start anything else! • Presentation • PowerPoint Presentation Scoring Guide

  10. How do you print note pages? • File / Print / Handouts 3 per page • Write notes to yourself

  11. In Summary… • How do you increase audience’s interest? • Can public speaking be scary? • How to break those annoying habits.

  12. Post-test • What can you do to make a PowerPoint Presentation more interesting for your audience? • What can you do to make a PowerPoint Presentation boring? • Why don’t you want to put a different background on each slide?

  13. Works Cited Desrochers, Cynthia and Catheryn Cheal. “Designing PowerePoint Lectures: The Brain’s Natural Cycle of Learning.” 6 Feb. 2004. 6 June 2005. http://www.exchangesjournal.org/viewpoints/1146_Desrochers_Cheal.html> Executive Communications Group. “Visuals Can Power Your Presentation” 2004. 6 June 2005. <http://totalcommunicator.com/vol2_1/visuals_article_print.html>

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