What are your tips for creating a great presentation for the globe? Here are my 10 tips. Please add yours as a comment below. Or feel free to disagree with me and share your viewpoint!
Remember that you are presenting in an online room, where room space and participant's internet access speed can create problems.
10 Tips for Great Presentations in a Virtual Room
- If it is your first time presenting in Blackboard Collaborate, keep it simple
- Use text, wordles, word clouds, images where possible as a reminder of what you would like to share (Remember: nervousness may make you forget) Keep text to a minimum – it can be boring!
- Keep images to a small file size ie Do not use high quality images as they may not even load in to the virtual room. If possible resize to 600width x 304height, or below 50kb in size. Irfanview is free and is a good digital editing software for windows machines. Or double click on the picture in powerpoint, goto compress pictures and choose email, apply to all
- Where possible add some questions on a slide(s). Get participants to answer them in the chat to encourage interactivity.
- The first slide(s) should share who you are, what you do, where you are from and your passions.
- Add an image of yourself so people can see what you look like.
- Add your contact details, email address, links to your online sites eg blogs, wikis, websites, twitter handles for further connections, conversations and sharing on the last slide
- Depending on how much you will speak to each slide, 25-60 slides is a rough guide as to an ideal number for a 20-45 min presentation.
- Preferably use a white background as colour uses up digital space in a virtual room.
- Share stories and experiences where possible.
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