1. USING VISUAL AIDS

2. Why Use Visual Aids? Clarity Interest Retention Credibility
Persuasiveness

3. Visual aids objects drawings models photographs or someone else!
charts & graphs
videos, PowerPoint, etc.
or someone else!
yourself

4. “ 5 and 6” MOST IMPORTANT And here’s the rule for slide presentations:
No more than FIVE lines of text
No more than SIX words per line!

5. There’s nothing more boring…
…than having to sit through a speaker who has the ENTIRE TEXT of their speech (or a rough approximation of it) written out on a slide…which means that the audience gets to listen to the speaker drone on and on and on and on… and READ the entire slide to them while the audience is also reading the slide…or, even better, when the speaker has obviously downloaded something from the Web… and just pasted it onto their slide…and the font is so tiny there’s not a human being in existence who could possibly read it when it’s projected on a slide.
Now, wasn’t that fun and interesting???
AARRUGGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

6. TIPS FOR USING VISUAL AIDS PRACTICE USING YOUR VISUALS IN ADVANCE
AVOID USING THE WHITE-BOARD
DISPLAY YOUR VISUALS ONLY WHILE YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT THEM
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AVOID GIVING HANDOUTS DURING YOUR SPEECH
BE SURE YOUR VISUALS ARE LARGE ENOUGH

7. NO HATS! MAKE SURE YOUR AUDIENCE CAN SEE YOUR VISUALS
EXPLAIN YOUR VISUALS
TALK TO YOUR AUDIENCE, NOT YOUR VISUAL
NO HATS!

8. Some Examples of Visual Aids…

9. FLOWS Video and Audio Clips LOUD
Keep video clips short (30-45 seconds maximum)
Integrate clip into your speech so it
Make sure audio isn’t so that it drowns out your voice
OK to “talk over” video if explaining
FLOWS
LOUD

10. Photographs
The old train station in Applegate, c. 1900

11. Pictures or Drawings

12. Pictures or Drawings

13. Graphs

14. Pie Charts

15. Bar Graphs

16. Descriptive Charts