Making a Strong Presentation
As I quickly learned this week, making a powerful presentation is not an easy task. It requires not only careful planning, compelling information, and powerful images, but also the use of many other strategies that keep the audience engaged. From Garr Reynolds Tips for Delivery, this means having a good attitude, being direct, and keeping the lights on.
I applied these delivery tips and Garr Reynolds Tips for Design to my own presentation by maintaining eye contact with the webcam (audience), keeping my presentation short with no bullet points, and choosing a topic that I am passionate about. I also used powerful and thought provoking images and facts in each slide.
Admittedly, making a presentation, even if it wasn't directly in front of an audience, was very difficult for me because I have always had stage fright. Presenting online through Screencastify actually made this situation worse for me because I was able to look at myself during the presentation and pick apart my word choices, tone of voice, and body language. Despite the difficulties of this assignment, I believe that it was an excellent learning experience for me because I now know what parts of my presentations could use improvement. I found watching my own presentations to be so helpful that in the future I will probably record myself prior to making a physical presentation.
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