As a fairly experienced presenter, I also fully support the creation and use of slides.
Slides can give your presentation structure. Slides can reinforce your talking points by giving a visual cue to what is spoken. Slides can provide a historical assist to anyone reviewing your presentation at a later date. But, It's important to avoid these common mistakes using slides. 1. By far and away, the worst thing you can do is read your presentation directly off the slides. Your head will be down (no eye contact), typically people cannot read in an interesting way (boring people to death) and above all if you can't say anything more interesting than what people can read in your slides, why should they even listen to you? 2. Turn your back on the audience to point at your slide on the screen. People will love your backside (not). BTW - It's a real low point if you combine mistakes 1 and 2 together... :) 3. If you're too dependent on your slides, you'll lose interactivity with your audience. Depending on topic and size, I usually invite interruptions and adjust -- Instead of forcing people to follow the slides. So, for example if you want to take a look at a couple of my slide decks at the following URL you can probably learn quite a bit without actually hearing me speak but whenever I do present on these topics I never lack an interested audience... They know that time listening to me in person is worthwhile even if they've already seen the slide deck. http://sites.google.com/site/4techsecrets/slide-presentations Everyone has a different personal style but I feel very comfortable doing it this way... HTH, Tony On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:36 AM, jdd <j...@dodin.org> wrote: > Le 23/03/2011 14:13, Chuck Payne a écrit : > > >> Are you teaching or doing a presentation? If you are teaching, DO NOT >> USE SLIDES!!! The biggest mistake anyone makes when trying to teach is >> to use slide. Trust me on this. > > wrong... slides can be used creatively :-). > > slides can be used to keep visible the course layout. I also have > great success with using slides with qcm (like french driving > licence). But you have to be creative, slides are easily boring :-)) > > jdd > > -- > http://www.dodin.net > http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgxog7_clip-l-ombre-et-la-lumiere-3-bad-pigeons_music > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGgv_ZFtV14 > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org
