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PowerPoint Whiteboarding and Post-Its

slidecoach — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:24:40 +0000

This post is a sequel to the post titled “PowerPoint Whiteboarding.”

As the newly appointed university professor looks for new ways to involve his students, this is what he’s up to now.

Here are some pictures of a similar technique but trying to get student more engaged and up at the whiteboard with Post-its too.

He says: “I am learning that making good lessons is about improvising in the moment and judging the feeling of the room to keep the momentum going. That is really difficult! I even find myself tweaking slides during breaks to respond to the situation, but it doesn’t always succeed!”

PowerPoint Whiteboarding

slidecoach — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:05:33 +0000

It’s always hard to keep students engaged and listening during a class and especially so during a long one. Here are five “low tech” suggestions for teaching with slides from a university professor:

Design the slides so that certain content is missing, allowing for interaction and construction with the students
Project the slides over a whiteboard
Use markers to fill-in-the-blanks and to comment/expand on the content
Invite students to take notes and build the content during the class
Take a digital photograph of the whiteboard before erasing.

Here are some photographs I received from him that give a better idea:

What do you think?

Have you used this method with your presentations?

Is this you?

Alessandra — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:16:20 +0000

Do you find that your current slide presentations are not getting the feedback you expected?
Do you have a terrific product but are not sure how to present it to prospects?
Do all marketing presentations look the same to you: boring and ineffective?
Are you wondering if a consultant could help you to build the business presentations you need to promote your company, nationally or internationally?
Do you wish you could create effective training slides to enhance your consulting business?
Are you a teacher looking for a better way to present information to you students, so they pay attention and retain the information?
Do you have doubts on which graph type is most suited to presenting certain data at a management meeting?
Have you just been promoted to a position requiring presenting in front of customers, but are worried you don’t know how to build an effective presentation?
Have you been tasked to present at an international conference in English, not your first language, and are worried about possible spelling and grammar errors, or unclear explanations?
Would you like training so your staff can communicate more effectively using presentations?

Effective presentations will help you stand out from the competition, get you more visibility and pave the road for success.

Not just public speaking

Alessandra — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:23:37 +0000

Training options: Public Speaking, PowerPoint or Effective Presentations?

The two critical factors for presentation success are keeping audience attention high and communication the concepts and ideas we want to transmit.

To improve as presenters, a useful option is to enroll in a “public speaking” course.
This type of training teaches how to improve presentations working on gestures, posture, movement, ability to create an emotional link with the audience through empathic communication, fac expressions, voice, ability to involve the audience and handling critical situations.

I have participated in several courses of this type in the past and I found them very interesting and useful, especially when they included an analysis of a video recording of each participant.

Nevertheless, the communication effectiveness can be increased or dimished by the quality of the slides, normally done with PowerPoint, that are accompany the presentation. This aspect, unfortunately, is often overlooked and its importance underestimated. It’s not enough to attend a PowerPoint course to prepare a quality presentation.

That is why I have developed a training program called “Effective Presentations” which focuses on qualitative and organizational aspects and the content of the slides. Styles and methods are varied and in constant development. Knowing them and being able to use thiem can help to build each one’s unique presention style.

A good presentation can also get extra help from the Internet. This is a topic I cover in my training courses: what tools, especially Web 2.0 ones, can enhance a presentation and make it accessible on the Internet?