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    Helpful Tips for Effective

    Online and Oral Presentations

    Tips for Creating Effective Power Point Slide Shows, Delivering Oral Presentations, & Creating and Delivering Poster Presentations

     

    Creating Effective Power Point Slide Shows

    CREATING AN EFFECTIVE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION   by Thomas Saylor  

    The “joy of six” is a helpful rule of thumb. Use a maximum of six points per slide and six words per point. 

    Creating an Effective PowerPoint Presentation by Virginia Montecino http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/powerpoint.html

    Tips for creating and delivering an effective presentation from Microsoft Office http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/powerpoint-help/tips-for-creating-and-delivering-an-effective-presentation-HA010207864.aspx

    Designing Effective “PowerPoint Presentations” By: Satyajeet Singh http://www.slideshare.net/satyajeet_02/how-to-make-effective-presentation

    10 slide design tips for producing powerful and effective presentations http://www.techrepublic.com/article/10-slide-design-tips-for-producing-powerful-and-effective-presentations/6117178

    Delivering Oral Presentations

    Before you browse through the following web sites, take 9 minutes and watch and learn from this you tube video, “Examples of Good and Bad Oral Presentations.” The video was created by two middle schoolteachers.   The examples apply to whether you are giving a Power Point presentation or poster presentation. 

     

    Author and presenter, Wendy Russell, has these words of advice for all presentations and visual aids:

    K.I.S.S. =Keep It Simple, Silly

    In other words, usually, less is more!

    3 V’s (Visual, Vocal, Verbal) for Oral Presentations (Atlantic Provinces Council on the Sciences) http://www.scribd.com/doc/24495368/3-vs-of-Communication

    Poster and Presentation Resources form The Graduate School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  SCROLL UP OR DOWN FOR LOTS OF LINKS FOR POWER POINT AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS!  http://gradschool.unc.edu/student/postertips.html#powerpoint

     

    AssessingYour Poster for Effectiveness from the University of Guelth http://www.soe.uoguelph.ca/webfiles/agalvez/poster/step4_detail.pdf

     

     

    Creating and Delivering Poster Presentations

    Remember, it doesn’t matter whether you are using Power Point or a poster for your visual aid, good oral presentation skills will make for an overall, effective presentations.

      
     

    AssessingYour Poster for Effectiveness from the University of Guelth http://www.soe.uoguelph.ca/webfiles/agalvez/poster/step4_detail.pdf

     

     

     

     

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