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
Bumper Slides and SignPosting
Keynoting
The Diamond Model
from Tools for Designers by Wes O'Haire
- Attention: Start with a story, statistic, or something similar
- Main topic: Briefly introduce the main topic you’ll cover
- Previews: Give quick previews of your subtopics
- Subtopics: Go into depth with your subtopics
- Summaries: Recap your subtopics
- Conclusion: Paint an ideal vision of the future
- Call to action: Invite your audience to act or make a decision
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
- 20 Minute Rule
Books to Read
Somehow a professional has agreed with me on almost every point in this lecture. It is pure luck I assure you.
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”
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
- MIT Lectures
- Tim Montcrief's Thread on Twitter
Now on to the Lecture…
Professor
Nassau University Medical Center
No conflicts of interest (coi).
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Thanks Scott
Awesome resource and content that has given me so much to mack my talks and presentation skills better.
Thankyou.
Kane
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