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Pep Talk to Grade 12 TOK students

Your audience will read your slides faster than you talk.

Never, ever, ever, put word-for-word what you are saying, instead use strong visuals to help

add to your story, and not to give it away before it comes out of your mouth

Ideally, I would eliminate 90% of this text in a face-to-

face presentation

When someone puts all their text in a presentation, I say to myself….

What is the point of being here…! just email me your

presentation and I will read it later

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Have a killer opening slide & title

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Is fair trade, fair to

all?

Is education gender biased?

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Use a colour scheme

www.colourlovers.com

1,456 people love this colour palette. Download as jpeg and

add to colour picker.

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Use stunning images

http://www.flickr.com/

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/

http://flickr.com

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Get your text right

Text is ok at times if you are focusing on your main points, or wish to add particular

emphasis.

Think about how you add text in relation to images.

Choose appropriate colours, match fonts, and think carefully about

size and order of importance.

“Never was so much owed by so many, to so few”

Winston Churchill, August 20th 1940

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Rural Poverty

1. Have a killer opening slide2. Pick a colour scheme3. Use stunning images4. Get your text right5. Practise your presentation

Remember to recap.

If people only remember one thing about

your TOK presentation this should be it

References:

Images from slides 5,6,7 – Boston Big Picture http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/

Images from slide 11 – Boston Big Picture Meripa Eruption http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/

Image from slide 11 – GapMinder Worldwww.gapminder.org

Inspiration - Jesse Desjardins - @jessedee http://slidestash.com/about/

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