2. Visual Aids

3. Cornell Note Set-up Date: February 15 Topic: Visual Aids
Essential Question: How can I use visual aids to
effectively convey important information about my topic?

4. Performance Indicator 10
Exceptional explanation and presentation of visual aids; audience focused
Visuals provide powerful insight into speech topic
Visual aids of high professional quality; visible and clear
Visual aids meaningful and relevant
Memorable

5. When using visual aids…
Ask yourself: “Do I need a visual aid?”
Keep it clear and simple
Point it out/Explain thoroughly
Don’t pass objects
Reveal and Conceal
Practice!!!
Have a backup plan ( and know your technology)
Legal considerations
Don’t neglect spoken parts of the speech. That’s what the lion’s share of your grade is based upon!

6. Types of Visual Aids Personal appearance Objects and Props
Appropriate to topic
Appropriate to audience and venue
Objects and Props
For illustration
Size considerations
Demonstration
Visual access

7. Types of Visual Aids Posters Audio and Video Handouts
Slideware (PowerPoint, Apple iWorks Keynote, Google Drive Presentation, Zoho Show, etc.)
Pecha Kucha
Prezi

8. Slideware Design Principles
Design with audience in mind
Maintain focus on message
Provide appropriate amount of information
Include only one concept or idea on each slide
3 second rule
Reduce noise

9. Slide Layout Keep it simple
White space draws attention to your images/words
Contrast colors
Don’t read off your slide

10. Backgrounds and Effects
Choose a simple design
Choose an appropriate design
Be consistent
Keep transitions simple
Don’t use this
Or this
Because it’s annoying and distracting

11. Colors and Fonts Stick with black or white text
Do not use colors that clash
Use easy-to-read fonts
Be consistent. No more than 2 different fonts
Consider transferability

12. Images and Text Simple images are better
Choose images that enhance your spoken word
Beware of pixilation 
No watermarks
Cite all sources—even for images!
Proofread for spelling errors!!!

13. Charts and Graphs Save the complex charts for handouts
Stick to simple, easy to read charts and graphs

14. Charts and Graphs

15. Charts and Graphs

16. Charts and Graphs

17. Introductions Performance Indicator 2 Hook Strategies:
Grab the audience’s attention
Establish Credibility
Orient Audience to Topic
Thesis Preview
Preview of main points
Hook Strategies:
Tell a story, refer to occasion, refer to recent or historical events, refer to previous speeches, use startling statistics, an analogy, a quotation, a rhetorical question (or series of), humor.

18. Conclusions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d9zNObqSsM
Brings your speech full circle
Summarize main ideas
Present final appeals/call to action
Do not include any new information
Reestablish your topic’s connection to a larger context
Provide psychological closure
End your speech with a clincher
Recency Effect (vs. Primacy Effect)

19. Performance Indicator 5
Develops a conclusion that reinforces the thesis and provides psychological closure
Provide a clear and memorable summary of main points
Refer back to the thesis/big picture
End with a “clincher”