Make Your Point

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Make Your Point

• A Guide to Making Excellent Presentations
• John Jackson, M.Ed.Director of Educational
  TechnologyUVA School of Medicine

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Whats coming

• Principles of ANY effective presentation
• Specific Dos and Donts
• Useful techniques

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What irritates you?
What are some examples of poor presentation
skills?
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Begin at the Beginning

• Who is your audience?
• What do they know or dont know?
• Whats the best way to communicate?
• Do you really care?
• How can you engage, excite?

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Think Structure

• How to put the pieces together in an interesting
  way?
• What interesting case or story might be a good
  intro?
• What are your three major points?
• What is the one thing you want people to take
  away?
• Deep preparation present 10 of what you know
• Plan the first 45 seconds carefully

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Content

• Accurate and Current
• Appropriate for your audiences educational level
• Appropriate for scheduled time 3 major points
  per hour
• Relevant to what learners need
• All important points mentioned in presentations
  should be included in slides
• Reinforce key points at the end of your
  presentation
• Spell check your presentation

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What makes a presentation great?
What great presentations have you heard? Why are
some presentations really memorable?
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Organization

• Overview to set context and relevance
• Objectives
• Priorities indicated by outline and bullets
• Need to know information identified
• Organized, e.g., most common to least, most
  important to least
• No long paragraphs of text
• Use color to emphasize important information

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YOU are the message

• Make eye contact
• Move around dont hide
• Show you are happy to be there
• Make a positive visual impression
• Get the audience involved
• Allow time for questions. Be a good listener

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Disaster stories
What are some of the worst mistakes you have seen?
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Testing testing

• Rehearse with a good critic
• Test the required equipment at least one day
  before your presentation.
• Provide your own equipment if you are not
  familiar with what equipment is available.
• Know who to call if you have problems.
• For really important presentations, have a
  backup.

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Graphics Design

• Import significant images (100 dpi sufficient
  usually no more than 1 MB each).
• Use graphs to visualize tabular data.
• Rule of Six Maximum of six words and six lines
• Use color schemes from PowerPoints templates.
• Place departmental or school graphics in the
  background layer once (not on each slide).

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Extending your Impact

• Publish your slides on the web for later
  reference as PDF files.
• Add your narration and save your presentation in
  Flash or MPEG-4 streaming formats.
• Include digital video or audio files within your
  presentation (e.g., heart sounds, procedures).
• Publish your presentation via AAMCs MedEdPortal
  and HEAL Central.

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Wrapping it Up

• Thorough research careful planning
• Rehearsal with a good critic
• Show you are glad to be there!
• Bonus Dont run over
• Thank You!