EFFECTIVE VISUAL AIDS Why use them Tips Power

EFFECTIVE VISUAL AIDS

• Why use them? • Tips • Power. Point slides

How we receive information

Visuals • Enhance understanding • Add variety to enliven a difficult/ boring subject • Support claims • Help illustrate complex concepts • Help the audience and the speaker keep track • Have a lasting impact

How much information we retain

Types of Audiovisual • • Power. Point slides OHTs Videos Objects Models Photographs Drawings Handouts, brochures, posters etc.

on Preparing Visual Aids

Prepare ahead of time.

on your slides • • Have simple words/ phrases Maximum about 5 items/ bullets Maximum two different font types Minimum 24 font size Always ask for feedback!

• Start with an outline. Types of Touchscreen: • Resistive Touchscreen • Capacitive Touchscreen

Avoid irrelevant visuals. “Wastewater is an asset and a problem in an urbanizing world. ” (Dreschel, 2015) ?

• Have simple and parallel items. Types of Touchscreen: • Resistive Touchscreen- when pressure is applied it registers input�� • Capacitive Touchscreen

Delivery • Arrange equipment in advance. • Display visuals only when talking about them. • Integrate visuals smoothly.

Do not read straight from your visuals.

Ask the audience to read OR listen.

Talk to your audience, not to the screen or to the visual.

Point at what you want your listeners to see.

Do not block the screen.

Delivery of Visuals

• Tell your listeners what kind of visual you are displaying: These are pictures of victims receiving CPR. This is a line graph showing the fluctuation in sales in 2000.

• Explain what the visual shows. This pie chart illustrates the distribution of…

• Emphasize what the listeners should focus on: Notice the blue segment that shows….

• Comment on/interpret the visual. As can be understood from this graph….

TALK ABOUT IT

Görsel-İşitsel Araçların İzleyici önünde Kullanımı • Görsel malzemelerinizi güvenli bir şekilde kullanarak, dinleyicilerinize tablolarda, slaytlarda veya saydamlardaki bilgileri kavramaları için zaman tanıyın. • Sunumunuzda gerekli olduğunu düşünerek işitsel malzeme ya da video kasetlerden yararlandığınızda, kullanım sırasında zaman kaybetmemeye dikkat edin.

Alcohol, drugs and fatigue q alcohol: v 30% of the injured driver are under the influence of ALCOHOL q fatigue: q the legisltion is now only for professional drivers q driving while drugged: • is increasing in recent years Ø methods for testing have to be developed Ø on medical drugs that affect the driving skills, the information is provided

Content highlights: • Emotional eating • Unhealthy dieting • Smoking and weight control

• Drugs do not really help people lose weight and keep it off. • They can be addictive, and lead to dangerous physical problems if misused.

What’s Behind Population Growth z Three Factors y. Fertility y. Infant Mortality y. Longevity z Animal Domestication and Agriculture y. Provided for a few to feed many z Industrial Revolution y. Growth of Cities and Infrastructure x. Water x. Energy x. Transportation y. Increased Productivity y. Nutrition y. Sanitation y. Medicine

Word that names b. A Person b. A Place b A Thing b An Idea

Inattention Blindness A narrowed scope Where drivers not using a hands-free cell phone looked. Where drivers using a hands-free cell phone looked. Source: Transport Canada nsc. org

Music Is… • History~ reflects the times, country, and origin of it’s creation • Physical Education~ coordination of eyes, hands, fingers, lips, voice, facial, and diaphragm muscles in response to the sounds heard and interpreted • Art~ Use all of the technical aspects of music to create emotion and beauty

Life expectancy at birth, 1970 -1997 Source: World Bank World Development Indicators (2000).