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1. Presented by Chris Colley
Pedagogical Consultant at Learn Quebec
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Making your Content Sing!
A Practical Guide to Effective Presentations
Thursday, May 14, 2015

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6. DIGITAL DIALOGUE 9
Making your Content Sing!
A Practical Guide to Effective Presentations

7. Fire Drill Presentation
For Learning bird offices
Oh no
fire!
Call 911 Call 911 Call
911

8. Step 1
Create a safety committee. The committee should include at least one representative of each department of the
business, and the group should name one representative from each department as the team leader. The team leader
is responsible for ensuring his team evacuates the building, and he must meet team members at a predetermined
location outside the building.
Step 2
Provide evacuation information to all employees before drills begin. Employees must know the evacuation path
for their work area, and the alternative paths in the event an exit is blocked. Create evacuation signs and post them
throughout the building. Employees should also receive information on how to report a fire and use a fire
extinguisher, as well as whom to contact in an emergency.
Step 3
Develop several fire drill scenarios to assist with evacuation preparedness. Have employees stand in front of
different exits holding signs that state "Exit blocked -- choose an alternative route." This will make your
employees aware of the different exit routes from the building and make the the employees think about what
could happen in a real emergency.
Step 4
Conduct regular fire drills, but don't overdo it. For initial training purposes, hold drills every two weeks for a
short period of time. After the training period, a fire drill every three months is sufficient. Holding drills more
frequently can cause your employees to become complacent, and some might refuse to participate. It is also hard
to hold a surprise fire drill if they are too frequent.

9. Making your Content Sing!
A Practical Guide to Effective Presentations

10. What’s the foolproof way to make this happen?
1. Slides: Images and little text...
2. Handouts: Further Information not on slides
3. Presenter:
The Lecturer
The Entertainer
The Motivational Speaker
The Educator
4. Presentation Tools
5. Tips and Tricks
It’s all about Edutainment

11. Yellow Rules!
Colours in
presentations
increase willingness
to read and
motivation to
participate by 80%
Colour improves
retention by more
than 75%
Of all the 16.7
million colours the
human eye can
see, goes to yellow
first

12. • Lowercase letters are faster to read
• Large groups need larger sized fonts
• The typeface you select should match your
presentation content

13. Rule of Thumb:
Serif Fonts for
Headings
Sans Serif for Body

14. Question One?
Try and recall a presentation that
you gave or saw when images
made a presentation more
effective.
What do you remember and
why?
Adam Bellow’s Tech Commandments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v
evGmzmWnI

15. Images
• The best way to foster learning
involves BOTH words and
images
• Visuals improve learning only if
they are illustrating the point
you are making
• First slide is on for the longest,
leaves the lasting impression

16. Rose

17. The 4 Steps
Find a text only slide in your
archives. Take it through the four
step process;
1. Select a slide with too many
words
2. Highlight ONE key word per
bullet
3. Remove all other text
4. Add an image

20. Handouts
“Words can only recall images we’ve already seen”
The handout should be your running record of what
you’ve seen and experienced in the presentation.
They transform what I think is important for you to
learn and remember.

21. Handout Scorecard
•Limit handout to one page, double sided
•Use two columns
•Use black and white images from presentation
•Use graphic elements to signal topic changes
•Display contact info.
•Include URLs
•Post digital versions
•Create supplemental material to post

24. The Presenter
The Lecturer
Keep it short
Keep the focus
Keep it lively

25. The Entertainer
Entertainment is necessary , but not
at the expense of your content. The
message is what matters after all.

26. The Motivational Speaker
Inspires and has an impact both
short and long term

27. The Educator
Combines them all in a seamless
fashion that empowers the audience
to retain and transfer content

28. Digital Tools
Changing the face of your
presentations…
Making them free, sharable,
cross-platform,
collaborative, unique, and
highly engaging…

29. Tips and Tricks
Limit Bullets
Stand to the left of your screen
when presenting
Limit animation and transitions
Animate yourself not the slide
Be passionate about your
content, after all you’re the
expert!

30. In Summary
• Colors, text and font matter - Simplify
• Tell your story with Images - Limit Text
• Be concise - Stay on Point
• Create a Handout for each presentation
• Connect with audience - Keep it Real
• Relax and have Fun!

31. • They Snooze, You Lose by Lynell Burmark
• Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds
• All resources are in Google Drive for using and
sharing
Resources

32. Question & Answer Session

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