Chapter 2 synopsis

EDTC 6340.60

Marivel Correa

Chapter  2

Creating slides and handouts

This chapter discusses the importance of creating your PowerPoint presentation slides, and the handouts you will provide your audience with. The slides and handout of the presentation should not include everything the presenter is going to say to the audience. The presenter needs to add notes to it. The slides of a presentation should have both words and images. Whether it is for entertainment or edutaiment we need to deliver an effective visual presentation. The advice on this chapter is to use more images rather than text. First, you show the image and then you tell about it. This will help to increase audience attention and the PowerPoint presentation will be memorable for them. Also, it is recommended to avoid handouts that are identical to your slides. We don’t need to resemble the actual presentation but to provide new information that would be helpful and relevant to the audience later on. Moreover, those handouts will be available online so you don´t lose your audience attention.

The information provided on this chapter was very interesting for me. I have never thought before about providing handouts at the end of the presentation. This will help to maintain the audience focused on the delivering of the presentation. 

References

Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose: The educator's guide to succesful presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass