Powerful

Presentations

Presented by STUDENT LEARNING SUPPORT English · Academic Skills · Maths

Level 4 HSS · learningsupport@bond.edu.au

Creating a powerful presentation

Slide design

Appearance & body language

Appearance & Body Language

Do:

•Look neat

•Smile!

•Use your presentation space

•Act confidently

•Use body language that gets your point across

Slide Design

Do not:

•Use weird fonts

•Write sentences / paragraphs

•Use colours that are hard to read

•Put too much info on a slide

•Have too much animation (incl sounds)

•Use different slide backgrounds

Slide Design

Do:

•Use dot points – only the important points

•Use visuals – pictures, graphs

•Use only very short videos

•Only have 3 main points if you’re selling something

•Rehearse

•Test the setup area

•Use subheadings on a slide for a long presentation

Slide Design

Do:

•Have titles for graphs, charts, tables

•Reference – pictures, graphs etc

•Have a reference list, summary, question time or further information to finish – not Thank You

•Copy on H:/ and USB

•Print out slides with notes

•Proofread – spelling, spaces and capitals

Organisation of Talk

Hook

•Statistic

•Question to class or individual students

•Rhetorical question

•Joke

•Picture

•Music

•Short scene from a DVD or YouTube

•Unusual case

•Personal story

•Short Fable – story with a moral

Organisation of Talk

Then..

…introduce yourself and your topic

Organisation of Talk

Introduction

•Background

•Thesis statement (what you’re going to talk about, in the order you will discuss it)

OR

•You can start with an outline of your talk and the first point will be background info