Recently, a set out of things convey got me thinking almost the visual aspects of the presentations I give. And I was inspired to elbow grease out a novel approach to preparing the slides for my adjacent talk.
In a Facebook give-and-take almost tips for newbie presenters, mortal mentioned the acquit on that visuals tin laissez passer the axe have; a moving-picture demo speaks a thou words together with all that. That got me thinking that I rarely role visuals together with peradventure I could include about more.
Then I read a truly interesting article that suggested that when teachers role text-heavy slides inwards class, students truly retain less of the information. The article explains that this is because the overload of data (written on the slides addition the teacher's commentary) tin laissez passer the axe only endure confusing, together with thus neither root quite hits home. The article was almost high-school students (not particularly ELT), but I wondered whether the same principles powerfulness apply to conference presentations.
Now, of course, I already elbow grease non to overload my slides amongst lots of text, but equally mortal who talks primarily almost language, it's a fleck hard to learn away from altogether. Never 1 to shy away from a challenge though, I idea I'd elbow grease together with laissez passer it a go.
This weekend I've been putting together a utter for an EAP conference inwards St Andrews at the cease of the month. I realized I couldn't quite wean myself off words altogether, but I've completely abandoned my commons means of slides amongst bullet points of the fundamental points together with gone for a really low-text alternative. Here's a taster ...
If whatever of yous are inwards St Andrews together with come upwards along to my session, I'd endure truly interested to learn your feedback on how the slides travel out. Did yous similar the visuals or were yous yearning for about old-skool bullet points?!
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