May 25 2009
The Best Sources Of Advice For Making Good Presentations
Helping our students learn how to deliver good presentations, and helping ourselves practice what we preach, is always a challenging exercise (at least, it is for me). I thought it might be useful to create a “The Best…” list with the resources that I’ve found useful for doing both.
Here are my picks for The Best Sources Of Advice For Making Good Presentations:
10 Powerpoint Tips for Preparing a Professional Presentation
Ten Tips For Students In Making A Good Presentation by Dr. Delaney Kirk (Thanks to Angela Maiers for the tip)
5 Ways to Ruin Your Next Presentation (thanks to Doug Peterson for the tip)
The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
The TED Commandments – rules every speaker needs to know
From design to meaning: a whole new way of presenting?
Top Ten Delivery Tips from Garr Reynolds
Make Better Presentations – The Anatomy of a Good Speech
Really Bad PowerPoint by Seth Godin
Brain Rules For Presenters (thanks to EdTech Update for the tip)
The 10 Worst Presentation Habits
This is a very interesting post about the Glance Test:
“…slides should be processed in 3 seconds or less. It’s impossible for people to process your slides and your words simultaneously. The test gives you a quantifiable way to test a slide’s viability as a glance medium by calculating a signal-to-noise ratio for individual slides.”
This can be a very useful tool for both teachers and students to keep in mind when developing any kind of presentation slides.
How To Give A Lousy Presentation is the title of a short and simple Business Week article.
Suggestions and feedback, as always, are welcome.
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Hi Larry, here’s a SmartLemming.com new post on presentation skills:
Smart Lemming Rundown: 10 Simple Secrets of the World’s Greatest Business Communicators
Link: http://smartlemming.com/2009/06/smart-lemming-rundown-10-simple-secrets-of-the-worlds-greatest-business-communicators/
Lori Grant
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Thank you for mentioning Garr in your post. I work for Peachpit Press and thought you and your readers might be interested in knowing that he just released his first online streaming video, Presentation Zen: The Video, where he expands on the ideas presented in his book and blog. More info can be found here:
http://tr.im/lFvO
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Not to be forgotten speedy presentation techniques such as Pecha Kucha20×20 (20slides auto-advancing every 20sec) http://www.pecha-kucha.org or Ignite by O’Reilly20×15 http://ignite.oreilly.org.
Hugely popular because of the snappy presentations and from my own experience, a sobering excercise.
Rgds Heike
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Brilliant post and thanks so much for compiling this list. Methinks a very important and oft shared bookmark!
Karenne
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