Presentations

After doing the powerpoint presentations, I learned what a good presentation looks like. When doing a presentation, it's important that you are the presenter and that any other elements just add to your presentation. Powerpoint is a very powerful tool if you use it effectively. Slides should have important points summarized and pictures to help visualize the information you talking about. The presenter should present the information to the audience. It's important to look at the audience while speaking and knowing the content so you speak confidently. The better presentations we saw were ones where the presenter told the information but uses slides to show pictures or main points to help the audience visualize the information while explaining. Pictures are very useful in presentations. When done properly, power point presentations can be very useful and make presenting a lot easier.

Making Effective PowerPoint Presentations

This article discusses the most common mistakes people make when creating PowerPoint presentations. Most people create presentations in a linear pattern with a heading and information following it. Since people are used to this common linear pattern they lose interest quickly. The important thing is to switch the order of information or switch presenters between presentations so that people become more engaged. Another problem is that people include too much information in their slides from written sources such as text books. Instead of just reading slides out to the audience, a better idea is to summarize key points in slides and then discuss them to the audience. The natural reaction for someone while doing a presentation is to just verbally share everything they know about the topic. This loses people's interest quickly so the idea is to spend between 30 seconds to a minute on each slide. The presenter should dicuss information or provide examples to make it easier for the audience to understand. Other problems are the structure of the article. Each article should develop a point
from material presented before it and lead to information coming next. The presenter should interact with the audience. Try leaving out important information till the audience asks for it to keep the questions on subject. These tips will help make your presentations more effective.

Project

We got a new project. We have to be a computer consultant and recommend computers to threee different clients. I'm going to build the computers from the Tiger Direct website for better marks. I hope I do well on this.