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It’s 9:02 p.m. and you’re about to start working on your presentation for your Civics class. You open up your laptop and find a tutorial is running…

Here is everything you need to need to know to create your presentation for Civics class

The Audience is here to see you!

What’s in it for them?

PowerPoint/Keynote

A tool to support YOU as the speaker

Presentations are about...

Communicating Meaning!

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Example of a bad slide! Make your 1st or 2nd slide an outline of your

presentation– Ex: previous slide

Follow the order of your outline for the rest of the presentation

Only place main points on the outline slide Another bullet point And another bullet point Another bullet point if you can fit it on the slide Include everything you want to say on each slide

– Ex: Use the titles of each slide as main points– More bullet points

Distracting

Distracting

Irrelevant, bad clip art

Too much information

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AVOID Make your 1st or 2nd slide an outline of your

presentation– Ex: previous slide

Follow the order of your outline for the rest of the presentation

Only place main points on the outline slide Another bullet point And another bullet point Another bullet point if you can fit it on the slide Include everything you want to say on each slide

– Ex: Use the titles of each slide as main points– More bullet pointsX

Start here

1 idea per slide

Plan your presentation away from your computer

Slide 1

Why am I talking about this subject?

Slide 2

Ask the class a question

Slide 3

Outline the 1st main point to cover

Remove backgrounds...

all they do is distract the audience from your message

Black text on white is easy to read

Use High Quality Graphics

Images is this presentation were purchased from a professional stock house

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Or take your own images…

Put details in a handout

Give it out AFTER your presentation

Tell Stories

TEDx Manhattan. August 2011. Flikr. Creative Commons License.

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People remember stories

TEDx Manhattan. August 2011. Flikr. Creative Commons License.

You don’t always need slides

Demonstrations

White Board

Case StudiesGame Shows

Ask questions

Group Brainstorm

SkitMind Maps

Poll the Audience

Create a video

to…

Have Fun!

Presentation Author: Natalie Currie

References (for those who yearn for more…)

Atkinson, Cliff. Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations that Inform, Motivate and Inspire. Redmond: Microsoft Press, 2011

Durate Nancy. Slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations. Sebastopol: O’Reilly, 2008

Duarte Nancy. resonate: Present Visual Stories That Transform Audiences. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010

Godin Seth. Really Bad Presentations (e-book). http://www.sethgodin.com/freeprize/reallybad-1.pdf, Do you Zoom Inc. 2001

Reynolds Garr. Presentationzen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery.

Berkeley: New Riders, 2008

Reynolds Garr. Presentationzen DESIGN: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentation. Berkeley: New Riders, 2010

Schwertly Scott. How to be a Presentation God: Build, Design and Deliver Presentations that Dominate. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2011