Make Your Presentations POP!-

Lesson Plan - Get It!

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When giving a presentation, identify what your audience wants to take away from it.

• Ultimately, what do you want them to remember from what you've said?
• What do they need to know to have a basic understanding of the material you presented?

Those are the things you built your multimedia elements around.

When considering what elements to incorporate into your presentation, you want to choose things that add to your presentation only. You don't want to fill the space with fluff or too many competing elements. This will distract your audience from what you're trying to convey.

Say vs. Show

Say

Your slideshow or other visual presentation is an aid to your overall presentation. What you say is the foundation.

What you say to the audience is your oral presentation or speech. This is where the narrative of your information is presented. This is your opportunity to connect with your audience on a person-to-person level to present your topic.

Your audience isn't going to remember everything you say, even if you give the most compelling speech of all time. But, with the right visual presentation support, they will retain more important details after your presentation ends.

Think of your oral presentation as a way to connect with your audience emotionally and your visual presentation as an opportunity to embed and reinforce the data and details of your presentation.

Show

What you show is a tool to enhance the information you're delivering. You show with the following.

• engage the audience and keep them interested
• boil down information to the most important points to encourage retention
• add images, audio, and video that will increase the audience's understanding of your presentation

However, what you show should NOT do the following.

• restate exactly what you are saying
• provide a transcript of your oral presentation
• cram too much information or stimuli in that distracts the audience
• provide you with a crutch so you don't have to be familiar with your material

Dos and Don'ts

There are a variety of presentation applications you can use to enhance an oral presentation. Some things will be the same across whichever platform you choose, but each application works differently.

Watch the video below for quick, helpful tips applicable across platforms.

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