Creative presentations

What makes a good talk?

Before starting

Always keep • the purpose and tone of your talk• the purpose of your slides• your audience as great listeners• yourself as a unique person• the simple rules of design

… in mind

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Observe others, take notes

• Body language & Powerpoint on TED1, 2, 3, (2 minutes each video)• Brainstorm on observations

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You the speaker

• Use Emotion less data, more stories! • Be Novel in content and delivery• Emphasise on the visual with relevance• Decide what needs to be remembered• Don’t rush to fit everything in – have less• Keep eye contact with audience• Don’t rely on a script –> don’t read it!!

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Keep slides simple !• Backbone of your talk• Organise them In separate sectionswith slide numbers

• 20 slides maximum! (15 is good)

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Designing your slides

Designing your slides

What is wrong here?1. Colour of the background/font

This a full sentence that is too long to read on a Powerpoint slide, but I really should read it rather than write it

Making speelling mistakes

2. Avoid numbers if not chronologicalConsistence of the bullets/importance of

factsToo many bullets/sub-bullets

This bullet should not be there, you should tell it

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Consistence: the answer is 6

Be consistent • 6 words across, 6 words down• Background, colour schemes :

• Light background, dark text (best)

• Avoid pictures as background• Too much animation is distracting• Too much information is daunting

Dark background, light text

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Layout - bullets

• Minimum Bulleting Consider the role of the following bullets:• Wash your hands after the experiment

• The Chemicals are poisonous

1. avoid numbers 2. unless useful 3. to a progression

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Layout - Text

• size • Great = 40 (title)

• Good = 32 (body)• bad = 18 (source)

• font (normal or bold)• French style script,

bradley hand TC • Arial, Times New roman, Calibri• Colour

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Your turn

1. Open Powerpoint2. In 2 slides, summarise your

country’s economy3. Do a short presentation (remember Flickr Creative Commons)

Saint Malo, FranceSource: google mapsFrench migration to Canada

Source: Flickr CC by Cristian Bortes

Old city of privateersSource: Flickr CC by Cristian Bortes\