Student Resource 8.6 Reading: Making Presentations That Get Attention This presentation introduces: The purpose of presentations The use of PowerPoint presentations Tips for good presentations Making presentations is an important part of communicating with other people. You deliver presentations in school to teachers and other also present to people in a business context. students. You’ll Presentations can be delivered to just one person, to 500 in a large conference center, or to thousands of people over the web. There are many reasons to give a presentation. The most common are to inform, to educate, and to persuade. Good presenters understand that people learn differently. Some people learn best through seeing: words, or images on screen or in a book. Some people learn by hearing; still others by doing or by imagining that doing through concrete examples. The best presentations try to balance what people hear, see, they’re and experience during the presentation. This helps ensure that everyone in the the point of room “gets” the presentation. This is why good presenters add visual aids that directly support what they will say during their presentation. Visual aids should guide, enhance, and reinforce. Microsoft PowerPoint is a powerful and widely used software tool for presenting information. It is part of the Microsoft Office suite of software tools. PowerPoint uses a slideshow format. Usually, you create one slide for each major point or element in your presentation. You can shuffle the slides around and reorder them. PowerPoint can incorporate a number of types of objects, including text, charts, graphs, photos, graphics (in TIFF or JPEG format), audio, video, and other sounds. Once done making your of content slides, PowerPoint makes it easy to polish and prepare you’re “stack” for the actual presentation. learn about these steps next. We’ll review some basic tips that make for a good presentation. These are five really important things to Let’s remember. Slides do not help your audience if they are hard to read. Contrast makes type easier to read. If the venue for the presentation will be dark, choose dark backgrounds with bright text.
Student Resource 8.6 Reading: Making Presentations That Get Attention This presentation introduces: The purpose of presentations The use of PowerPoint presentations Tips for good presentations Making presentations is an important part of communicating with other people. You deliver presentations in school to teachers and other students. You’ll also present to people in a business context. Presentations can be delivered to just one person, to 500 in a large conference center, or to thousands of people over the web. There are many reasons to give a presentation. The most common are to inform, to educate, and to persuade. Good presenters understand that people learn differently. Some people learn best through seeing: words, or images on screen or in a book. Some people learn by hearing; still others by doing or by imagining that they’re doing through concrete examples. The best presentations try to balance what people hear, see, and experience during the presentation. This helps ensure that everyone in the room “gets” the point of the presentation. This is why good presenters add visual aids that directly support what they will say during their presentation. Visual aids should guide, enhance, and reinforce. Microsoft PowerPoint is a powerful and widely used software tool for presenting information. It is part of the Microsoft Office suite of software tools. PowerPoint uses a slideshow format. Usually, you create one slide for each major point or element in your presentation. You can shuffle the slides around and reorder them. PowerPoint can incorporate a number of types of objects, including text, charts, graphs, photos, graphics (in TIFF or JPEG format), audio, video, and other sounds. Once you’re done making your “stack” of content slides, PowerPoint makes it easy to polish and prepare for the actual presentation. We’ll learn about these steps next. Let’s review some basic tips that make for a good presentation. These are five really important things to remember. Slides do not help your audience if they are hard to read. Contrast makes type easier to read. If the venue for the presentation will be dark, choose dark backgrounds with bright text.
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