DEVELOPING SUPPORTING MATERIALS

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• DEVELOPING SUPPORTING MATERIALS

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Using Support Materials

• Support materials help you enforce your main
  points. Remember
• You state EACH main point
• You SUPPORT and discuss THE point
• You restate and summarize THE point
• You do this for EACH point you have.

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Amplification Devices

• Information that make your ideas more clear to
  the audience.
• Descriptions vivid imagery for your audience to
  see things clearly.
• Comparisons compare an idea to something the
  audience is familiar with.
• Contrasts pointing out differences (dont use
  this too much).
• Examples using characters from a book, a scene
  from a movie, a play from a baseball game to
  enforce a topic.

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Audiovisual Aids

• A picture is worth a thousand words
• Your audience will find your presentation much
  more interesting with A.V. aids.

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Reasons For Audiovisual Aids

• Make presentation more clear.
• Make presentation more interesting.
• Help audience retain information.
• Provide professionalism to your presentation.
• Helps support your information and lessen your
  apprehension and stage fright.

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Types of Visual Aids

• Objects Models
• A three-dimensional representation of something
• Can be live or inanimate
• Engages the audience in your presentation

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PICTURES

• Photos, slides, sketches, videotapes, DVDs,
  cartoons, and drawings.
• MUST BE LARGE ENOUGH FOR viewing by audience from
  afar!

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Pictorial Symbols

• Concepts and Statistics are presented in
  pictorial symbols, such as graphs, charts and
  diagrams.

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Computer-Generated Visuals

• Ready made art, symbols, graphs, charts.
• Sound effects.
• Adds color and emphasis easily.
• Make sure the font is 44 or above.
• Dont use too many distracting colors.
• Theres a fine line between not enough and too
  much.

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Presenting Your Visual Aids

• Flip charts
• Poster boards
• Transparencies
• Slides
• Tri-fold boards

• Handouts
• Videos
• DVDS
• CDS
• PowerPoint

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BE PREPARED

• Make sure your materials are organized and easily
  accessible on the day of your presentation
• Test any equipment BEFORE presentation time
• Dont use too many special effects, the audience
  will remember THEM, not YOU

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Other Helpful Hints

• Antithesis involves pairing opposing words or
  ideas together sink or swim.
• Transitions help you move smoothly through your
  presentation lets proceed, on the other
  hand, finally, If this is so, then what
  about?.
• Previews and Summaries tell them what you are
  going to tell them, tell them, then tell them
  what youve just told them.