bowdoin: data driven socities: some tips of presentation skills
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Some Tips
on Presentation
Skills
Jack Gieseking Bowdoin College
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Proper citations are essential
Consider how you are using the margin
(Again) visuals
over text
Balance subtle with wow
• Draw (literally) out your ideas first
• Main text needs to be 28 point font minimum
• Choose fonts to match tone
• Lean towards easier to read sans serif fonts (versus serif)
• Make sure you don't spelll thingz rung
The Slide about Slide Design
Simple is best.
• If your images do not have titles/legends, place titles/legends on the slide
• Be consistent (e.g. résumé style)
• Do not over rely on effects
• Borrow from other slide designs
The Other Slide about Slide Design
• Do not imply; state it, e.g. “This is important because…”
• To convey importance, connect to both the personal and the political
• Play to your strengths as you develop presentation styles
• Remember that you are the expert
Presentation Skills
Order of a great presentation: 1. tell them what you are going to tell them 2. tell them 3. tell them what you told them
Presentation Skills
Really.
Slide 1 Slide 2
Slide 3 Slide 4
• List Your
• Key Takeaway
• Point(s) Here
Label. Tool used.
Label. Tool used.
EXPLANATORY TITLE THAT IS
NOT TOO LONG AND THEREFORE
RIDICULOUS
Your Name
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