1. Do’s and Don’ts for Educational Presentations
Faculty Development
Dr. Paul Ogden

2. Goals Is Lecture Appropriate? Preparation Delivery
Visual Aids and Equipment
Bells and Whistles
What did we learn?

3. Seven Deadly Sins of Speaking “The secret of being a bore is to tell everything” Voltaire

4. Seven Deadly Sins of Speaking
Not meeting needs of audience
Unclear purpose
Lack of clear organization
Too much information
Monotonous
Unnecessary, unclear, inappropriate visual aids
Reading the talk

5. Is this your learner?

6. Or is THIS your learner

7. Is Lecture Appropriate?
Gilbert Highet’s 3 stages of teaching
Teacher prepares subject
Teacher communicates lesson to pupils
Teacher makes sure lesson was learned
Overlecturing/underteaching

8. Preparation Audience Age Knowledge Biases Reason for attendance Size
Mixed group
Experts?

9. More Prep
Purpose
Setting
Checklists
Visual Aids

10. The Purpose must be Significant to your learners
content
The Purpose must be Significant to your learners Or
the Results are Garbage

11. Prep 3 Research and Write Rough draft Outline 3-4 key points
Emphasize key points with facts, examples
Make an outline
Check logic and transitions
Develop strong intro and conclusion
REVISE

12. Make an outline Introduction-10% Body-80% Conclusion-10% Key point
Example
Conclusion-10%

13. Text-Body of the Talk Speak in conversational language
Short sentences, Active verbs
Repeat
Tell them what you are going to say
Tell them
Tell them what you just said

14. Practice Don’t memorize or read Practice short segments alone
Practice in actual location
Practice with a friend
Stay on time (cut if necessary)

15. Never READ your lecture

16. Know your Content Look at your Audience

17. Delivery Style-Conversational Maintain Eye contact
Non-verbal communication
Slow down when nervous
Dress at least as audience
Show enthusiasm

18. Delivery Lectern Laser pointer purpose Microphone
No hiding behind the lectern

19. Delivery
Intro use Jokes or not? Not everyone enjoys jokes, use judiciously?
Body
Emphasis on Key points
Breaking it up
Conclusion

20. Visual Aids (Don’ts) If 1 is good, 10 is better
Visual aids as teleprompters
High Tech is always better
No purpose to slide
Too much information
Unreadable

21. Isn’t this beautiful…just had to show you my vacation….

22. Visual Aids (Do’s) Speaker is focus (not slides) Use best medium
Emphasize key points
Readable (colors, columns, bars)
Images are visible to all (EKG’s, X-Rays)
Concise

23. Electrocardiogram

24. Ideal Slide Large type Horizontal 1 Subject 5-7 lines including title
Max 7 words per line
Readable typeface
LIMIT ALLCAPS OR ITALICS

25. Non ideal slide

26. Ideal Slide 2 Max 4 columns Max 6 Bars for bar chart
Max 5 slices for pie chart
Max 4 lines for line graph
Tables max 4x7
Blue background, Yellow headline, White body

27. Bells and Whistles Animation Video Internet Pictures with a point
Too much animation
can be distracting

28. Summary Lecture vs. Interactive? Preparation Audience Setting Outline
Practice

29. Summary 2 Delivery Visual Aids Interaction Enthusiam Tell them X3
Emphasize Key points!
Readable
Interaction
Make sure that lessons was learned?

30. The end Proceed to the post test Download the post test
Complete the post test
Return the post test to Dr. Sandra Oliver 407C TAMUII

31. Post test Answer the following questions:
More pictures the better on a single slide: T F
In your presentation use passive voice: T F
Don’t read your presentation: T F
Use jokes judiciously T F