Tech Talk: New Ways to Update your Presentation

Many of us have been forced or have enjoyed the numerous group or individual class presentations that we are forced to give each year to provide a more comprehensive recalling of the material we have learned over the past semester. This process of  regurgitation is difficult and time consuming but it doesn’t have to be.

There are two things that you can do to not only make your presentation more interesting and dynamic but will certainly make your presentation smoother and easier to give.

The first of the two, is a style presentation called Pecha Kucha in which you limit yourself to only 20 slides each slide being displayed for 20 seconds each. The total time of your presentation will be 6 minutes and 40 seconds. This accomplishes two goals. One, you focus your energies on the important points only and do not spend an hour trying to prove your worth regurgitating every fact and figure. Two, your slides are image heavy or single words only. This prevents the audience from ignoring what your saying by trying to read ahead and enhances what you are saying. A good example of this is this Pecha Kucha presentation.

The second, is a new “game-changing presentation style” the great thing is that you can get rid of PowerPoint, Keynote or Google slideshow and work on a ever dynamic zooming work space. Prezi allows you to work simultaneously with others over the internet, create story lines, import media, present online or offline, and they support an auto play feature of 20 seconds as well.

 

Try them both out and use them more than once as switch from something old to something new always feels a bit uncomfortable but I promise when you do you not only will be a better presenter but you have a much better response from your audience.