APPROPRIATE TYPE SIZE, TYPEFACE AND VISUAL AIDS By: Sally Allgeier.

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APPROPRIATE TYPE SIZE, TYPEFACE AND VISUAL AIDS By: Sally Allgeier

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APPROPRIATE TYPE SIZE, TYPEFACE AND

VISUAL AIDSBy: Sally Allgeier

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TIP #1-PLAN PRESENTATION BEFORE CREATING VISUAL

AIDS

• Find out what you want your audience to know• Create visual aid to go along with that

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TIP #2- USE VISUAL AIDS SPARINGLY

• They are an aid to your presentation not whole thing• Highlight• Key points

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TIP #3-MAKE THEM VISIBLE TO THE WHOLE AUDIENCE

•Make the image big

enough on the

screen so the whole

room can see

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TIP #4- TALK TO THE AUDIENCE

• Don’t talk to the screen• Eye contact• Don’t turn your back

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TIP #5- AVOID LASER POINTERS

• Not n

eeded at all

• Slid

e should be easy

enough to fo

llow w

ithout

it

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PICTURES & VIDEOS

• Less

is best

• Don’t fi

ll page

•Only w

hat is

necessa

ry

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TIP #6- EXPLAIN RIGHT AWAY

• Once you show an audience something, that’s where their heads are• Once you are ready to

change subjects then flip sides

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TEXT SIZE

• Title

• 40pt font o

r

bigger

• Subtitles

• 28pt to 32pt fo

nt

• Depending on

how much you

have on the sli

de

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FONT•Distracting to use a wide variety• Something easy to read from front of room to back of room• To much is a bad thing• Little is better

• Reading slides=not listening to you talk•Use pictures, charts and graphs over text any day