Presentation Tools

Create a Presentation After all your hard work, you’ve reached the final step. Now it’s time to do one last check of your outline and research. Once you’ve completed this step, you’re ready to start creating your final product—a written, an oral, or a multimedia presentation. 

Use this Encyclopedia Britannica Resource to get started with your  written, oral, or multimedia presentation 

The goal of a presentation is to aid you in conveying information to others and have them remember it. 

You don't want to rely on the presentation for you to tell what you are sharing you want it to support want you are sharing.

Here are some tips on the presentation:

• Use as many slides as you need

• Minimize your verbosity (more words than needed) on the slide

• Maximize visuals ( a picture paints 1,000 words) Use Google Image Public Domain or Flicker 

• Reduce the visual noise - eliminate headers, footers, page numbers

• Go BIG - make it easy to see it helps aid memory

• Highlight what you are talking about - contrasts, call-outs, bullets arrow or circles for text or images animate& reveals part, highlight, color text, 

• Transition changes between slides

• Repeat a slide to reinforce an earlier point

• Make it fully - a vital memory hook

Here are some tips on the presenting the presentation:

• Make the projection as large as possible for easier viewing

• Use the slide to remind you what you're talking about BUT DON'T READ IT ALOUD

• Look at your audience - you should not have to look at the slide to know your topic

• Use key phrases that can be talked about