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Presentation Tips

When planning your presentations, we encourage you to explore ways to make them more interesting and varied. For example, conference attendees for previous years have provided feedback indicating that slides with endless bullet points are not very helpful.

See the following links for some PowerPoint tips and other ideas.

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Props to Cindi Trainor for her suggestions.

10 Steps to Promote Learning in Your Conference Presentation

By Peter Bromberg. "I believe the goal of presenting should be to a create a change in the listener; a change of behavior, thinking and/or feeling. Any good teacher or trainer will tell you that to be effective in creating that change, you must begin with the learning objective(s) in mind, and work backwards from there to design the lesson or the talk."

Challenging the Presentation Paradigm at Profhacker.com

"The presentation style known as “pecha kucha"...solves the death-by-Powerpoint problem by introducing constraints: 20 slides, set to auto-advance every 20 seconds. You wouldn’t want to make up your mind about, say, the viability of the public option in US healthcare via such a method, but it’s a fun and lightweight way to manage presentations."

Doing a 15 minute presentation in 10 easy steps

What Do You Have to Say? How Will Your Audience Understand You? Feeling Confident and Prepared.

presentationzen.com especially The power of the visual: Learning from Down Under promotion videos

"Design is everywhere. Even non-designers can learn a lot by simply opening their eyes and observing the works of professionals. You just never know where inspiration or good examples will turn up. Sometimes, even a TV commercial or two can demonstrate just what it is that makes visuals effective and powerful."

5 Ways to Make PowerPoint Sing! (And Dance!)