Jeopardy: PresentationAids

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Maybe you are Iamiliar with 'Slim
Fast or 'Hair Club For Men
commercials.
Show comparisons
t is one thing Ior an audience to hear that a
child is starving, but visualizing that child will
have a more direct impact on the audience.
Convey diIIicult emotions
ne student showed an enlarged picture
oI a photograph she had taken oI a
hurricane in Kauai. The damage was
immediately obvious.
Promote conciseness
Consider how visual evidence, including
crime scene photography and surveillance
videos, is oIten used in courtrooms to prove a
person`s guilt or innocence.
Support ideas
student shows a visual aid oI Irican
elephants ten years ago and a second visual aid
oI Irican elephants today. The photographs
showed the dramatic diIIerence.
ClariIy complex concepts
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shows a given whole that
is divided into component wedges.
Pie graph
can make excellent visual
aids as they leave nothing Ior the
audience to misinterpret.
bject/Prop
This should add to your speech,
not substitute it Ior words.
Film/TV clips
student wrote an inIormative
speech on the history oI jazz. s
part oI it, she put together a CD oI
short jazz renditions representing
each time period discussed in her
speech.
udio aids
I your audience can read your
speech, why should they listen to
you?
Computer slideshows/PowerPoint
&se the same colors, Ionts, upper
and lower case letters, and styling.
Keep the Iormatting oI your aids
consistent.
Stand in the back oI the room.
Can you see it?
Make sure aids are large.
mistake beginners and some
proIessionals sometimes make is
to have too many visual aids.
&se aids sparingly.
our visual aid should serve a
speciIic and identiIiable purpose.
Choose aids that enhance your
speech.
The quality oI your visual aids is a
direct reIlection oI how much you
care about your speech.
Make the overall look
proIessional.
Maintain eye contact with the
audience.
Talk to your audience,
not your aid.
our audience will be more easily
distracted and likely to sleep.
Do not dim the lights Ior extensive
periods during your speech.
Creating your visual aids during
your speech looks unprepared and
unproIessional.
Do not use the blackboard/dry
erase board.
This can be disastrous as it pulls
attention Irom you to the item and
invites the audience to talk to one
another during your presentation.
void passing an item around.
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