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Content • How much? • Organized how? • Optimum stickiness? Creating Presentations

• If you want to sound like an expert you should make sure that you have included everything. • Put in complex charts graphs, and images too, so they can really appreciate and understand just how much work you have done. • The information should be written in detail and text should always fill the slide. • Read it to the audience so you know they are getting it and won’t miss anything. • Prove that you remember all the details by including any bits and pieces you can squeeze into your allotted time. • Make sure all of your thoughts and ideas are there, and it will be a fine presentation. Creating Presentations

• If you want to sound like an expert you should make sure that you have included everything. • Put in complex charts, graphs and images, too, so they can really appreciate much work you have done. The information should be written in detail and text should always fill the and understand just how • slide. the audience so you know they are getting it and won’t • Read it to miss anything. • Prove that you all the details by including pieces you can squeeze into your allotted time. • Make sure all presentation. remember any bits and of your thoughts and ideas are there, and it will be a fine Creating Presentations

How many words? “Less is more. ” Creating Presentations

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Introduction • Statement of topic • What is interesting? • Your motivation • Your key points Creating Presentations

Key Points • Pick 2 to 3 • Introduce, Support, Recap • Active voice, not passive Creating Presentations

Conclusions • Brief recap • What did you learn? • What would you do differently? • Connect to introduction Creating Presentations

Tell ’em what you’ll tell ’em, tell ’em what you told ’em. Creating Presentations

Traditional, or, “Darth Vader Method” Creating Presentations

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Design: Graphics • • Space balance (filled/empty) Element location Color coordination Element clarity Creating Presentations

Presentations and Posters Workshop

Mechanism of Dehydrocoupling Waterman, R. Organometallics, 2007, 26, 2492. Creating Presentations

Best Image Size Bessie 100 x 67 Bessie 980 x 650

“Good presentations tell a story. ” Creating Presentations

Beginning Middle End Creating Presentations

Really? Creating Presentations

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Other Approaches • Prezi • Assertion-Evidence Model • Pecha kucha (peh-chah’-k-chuh) Creating Presentations

Prezi – meta to micro Creating Presentations

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Assertion-Evidence Model Creating Presentations

In an assertion-evidence slide, the headline is a sentence no more than two lines, that states the slide’s message. Supporting photograph, drawing, diagram, film, or graph—no bulleted lists Call-outs, if needed: no more than two lines

The smaller the initial cancerous tumor that is detected, the greater the survival rate of the patient. 98% 73% [Lai et al. 2007]

Or no words at all… pecha kucha (20 slides, 20 seconds per slide) Creating Presentations

19 th Century Changes: Vermont Split Town Names

U. S. Census, 1850. Colchester, Vermont

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“Your slides are not your presentation; you are your presentation. ” Creating Presentations

Summary • Content • Less is more • Focus on the key points • Design • Simplicity, clarity • Helps you tell your story • Connection • Talk, don’t read • Practice (Memorize first sentence) Creating Presentations

Questions? hope. greenberg@uvm. edu And thanks go to: Rory Waterman, UVM, for the chemistry slide. Garr Reynolds for Star Wars images and inspiration. Creating Presentations