Reflection 5.1 - 5.3 Presenting Tools
Having worked for the federal government since 2002, boy oh boy am I familiar with the almighty powerpoint presentation. As the training delivery method became more "virtual", not only did we still have to suffer over-worded slides, we then had the joy of a 'hook-up' where the on-line presenter showed zero enthusiasm talking to 30 different people in 20 different locations. I appreciate learning and development in a career don't get me wrong. But I believe sometimes business, organisations, government departments - get the delivery all wrong. The need to be seen to be informing our staff, to avoid litigation or meet mandatory requirements or whatever, is missing the point (pun intended of course).....time is valuable and we need our viewer to see, hear, learn what we are presenting. Otherwise, what is the point? (oh gosh sorry, pun intended AGAIN). I watched this clip below. I gather this David Phillips wrote a book about not killing people via powerpoint. The clip is a bit hard going to be honest as I am not sure I find presenter very authentic (harsh I know), but his key messages did resonate for me..... So what I took away from the above clip was this: * One message per slide * Contrast - white background is THE worst * Size matters - the brain will gravitate to the larger object / text * Don't talk at the same time as expecting the text to be read * No more than 6 things / words / items on the slide. Below is my very basic powerpoint:
And I have set up a public prezi .....see below.....
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David G
4/8/2017 02:46:52 am
Hi Belinda,
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Kris
4/18/2017 07:35:17 pm
I will take on board the tips to lessen the amount of death by Powerpoint. Colour and large text. I think that will be useful in teaching later on as I believe Powerpoint is what we will be using. I could not read everything in the Blooms Taxonomy slide so it that a problem with Prezi as that small slide size??? Thanks for the information
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