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Writing a presetation

Writing engaging presentations can be hard, below is the first draft of some hints and tips I've accumulated. I'm going to put them into a presentation (!) soon but this should give you a flavour in the short term.

Before you start

  • Your slides are a prop. They are not your presentation, you are.

    • Your slides will not be printed out or referred back to:
      • If you need to share data to take away, link to it.
      • Do not include data on-screen, show trends and overviews.
    • They should be simple enough that you know them without looking.

  • Presentations are about helping people understand a concept, not delivering data.

    • Give your audience context
      • Tell them what you're going to tell them
      • Tell them
      • Tell them what you told them

Slide content

  • Your audience should grasp the content of your slide in under 5 seconds

    • People should be listening to you, not reading your slide.
    • Less content per slide, more slides is okay!

  • What is the one thing you want people to learn from this slide?

    • Remove everything which does not help that.

  • No more than six words per slide

  • No bullet points (use slides!)

  • Simple pictures are good, if they are relevant.

  • Try not to spread points over slides.

    • Each slide should contain one relevant point
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