Use pictures where possible
Dont use verticle lettering, it's hard to read.
Use color, but not incredibly bright.
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| What Makes an Effective - and Legal - Visual Presentation? | ||||||||||||||
| When using a visual presentation to enhance your speech, you need to be careful not to use someody elses information. The law requires that we give credit where credit is due. If you want to use some information that somebody else came up with first you can, but you need to "cite" your source. For an example of what I mean look at my "Works Cited Page". Here I give credit to those who actually though up much of the material that I have on this site. | ||||||||||||||
| What does a visual presentation do for me? | ||||||||||||||
| How badly do you want people to understand what you're saying? I know for myself, even after a good introduction I may still need something to keep my attention. Plus, a well designed graph can show listeners in more detail a concept that you are trying to portray. | ||||||||||||||
| Use a single idea per slide or graph - Keep It Simple. Use pictures where possible Dont use verticle lettering, it's hard to read. Use color, but not incredibly bright. |
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| Things to look for in a visual presentation: | ||||||||||||||
| Take a look at this site for example. I try not to use to many words in the same text box. Not huge paragraphs. I use many different colors but not anything to bright or dominant. While moving words around and adding color may be somewhat of a hassle, it definitely makes things more interesting to look at. Imagine if I had just put all of these sites one one page and kept them grey. Yuck. | ||||||||||||||