People have a tendency to blame powerpoint (or keynote) for the horrible presentations they are forced to sit through. But the slides are merely an external manifestation of a deeper problem, just like the teeth of a meth addict.
For the past two years, I have been speaking at The Teaching Course in NYC. Two years ago, I gave a 60-minute talk on presentation creation (you can see that original talk below). This year, the course directors reduced my time to 30-minutes…resulting in a tighter and much better talk. That is what I am posting today.
The Twelve Steps
1. Admit you have a problem
2. Choose your Topic and your Purpose
3. Create Brainstorming Spaces
4. Choose a Structure
5. Add the flesh
6. Work the Transitions
7. Visualize the Visuals
- Where to get Images from First10EM
8. Edit to Time
9. Mark the Stage
10. Create a “Handout”
11. Give it for Real
12. Do it Again
Other Things mentioned in the Talk
- Beyond Bullet points template
- Recorder recommendations
- Rich Borden Reference
- How to Sequence a Talk
- Ira Glass Quote
- 10 ways to end your talk
- Cicero rules for good talk
- Lawrence Lessing talk
- Multimedia Learning book
- Slideument reference
- Feedback form (see slides)
- Brief Feedback form (see slides)
- Using space information
- Nancy Duarte Reference and this one
- Presentation Zen
- Scriptwriting: Story by McKee
- Ed Tufte on Data Presentation
- Posture Reference
- Up resolution to PPT link
- Screencast on how to save as jpg (pending)
- Iskysoft Imedia Converter for Mac or Windows
- Share your checklist (pending)
- Good remote
- Test slide
The Rehearsals as elaborated in the Public Words Blog
See the posts here: Rehearsals, Rehearsals
- Rehearsal 1 is for content (I would recommend doing this one twice, once before powerpoint and once after)
- Rehearsal 2 is for Body Language
- Rehearsal 3 is for Emotion
- Rehearsal 4 is for Logical Structure (I Personally feel this should precede body language and emotion-Logos first)
- Rehearsal 5 is Open Rehearsal
- Rehearsal 6 is Walk-Through Rehearsal for Blocking
- Rehearsal 7 is Dress Rehearsal
Telling Stories during Presentations
Some Additional Tips
- Title not with “what,” but with “so what”
The Teaching Course
Rob Rogers and the other directors of the Teaching Course were kind enough to let me post this lecture for free for you EMCritters. Check out some of the other amazing offerings from these folks:
- Lectures from the Teaching Course NYC
- the Podcasting Course
- Future iterations of the Teaching Course
- All the great offerings from the Teaching Institute Folks
Slides from the Talk
Here is the Old Talk if you are Interested in Seeing the Contrast
The Site you Must Read
Additional Sites and Resources
- Prezentation Skills Site
- (How to do a Presentation from the Same Author)
- Nat May's Talk on Beautiful Slide Presentation Creation
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- People are scared of presenting
- Jean-luc Dumont's Lecture
Now on to the Lecture…
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5 Comments on "Podcast 192 – Powerpoint and Meth – Presentation Creation from #TTC"
Excellent and to the point. My wife has to give a presentation for nursing school, I will be making her sit down and watch this a couple of times. Also this has inspired me to be better at my presentations and teaching. Hopefully see you at an upcoming Teaching Course (if and when it comes to Canada)
Great talk. Can you recommend any mind mapping app or similar that you use for your presentations?
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Very good talk. Wish I’d seen this a few years earlier – I’ve found the mind mapping leading up to the lecture (if you are passionate about the topic) is the key.
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