1. Visuals

2. Did you know?
Retention of verbal information supported by visuals is 6 times greater
Perception
50% visual
40% hearing
10% other

3. Why use visuals? To organise presentation
To provide interest and motivation: change of activity
To help remember or visualise info
To illustrate numbers and processes
To support key info in a foreign language
Encourages speaker’s gestures and movements

4. When not to use visuals? For safety For long quotes or definitions
For verbal info only

5. Possibilities Posters Flipchart Graphics Pictures Videos
Transparencies
Powerpoint
Prezi.com

6. The flipchart Advantages - can be used in full light
- good for interactive talks to record contribution
- previously recorded info is available
Disadvantages
difficult to see from a distance
turning away from audience
technical problems

7. Techniques Do explain what you are writing loud maintain contact
use large, thick letters
use a lot of fresh pages
have spare markers
prepare complex drawing in advance
prepare a poster for repeated talks

8. Don’t
- stand in front of your writing
- turn away long from your audience
- write silently

9. Transparencies and powerpoint
Advantages
- allow for varied visuals
- facing the audience
- prepared in advance

10. Disadvantages
- visibility (dark, adjustments)
- screen
- accidents
- ties you to the machine

11. Key principles Speech vs. visual info: INTERACT
Chunk, organise, highlight

12. Maximum 6
A series of short slides vs. one packed
Time!
Avoid breaking the rythm

13. Be relevat, appropriate, effective
Colour,
font type ,
size,
animation
Text and image

14. Important! Check equipment and environment First introduce your slide
Reveal info gradually
Remove info when irrelevant
Rely on the laptop screen instead of the board
Avoid talking to the machine or the screen

15. Pictures, videos Advantages - illustration - dynamic Disadvantages
- act „instead of you”
- distributing, setting it up takes time,
breaks the rhythm of talk
- visibility

16. Techniques Pictures - introduce it first
- should be big enough to see
- introduce it first
- leave time to hand around and see
- ask audience to listen OR look
- use it to illustrate or create associations
- use local images to illustrate general ideas

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18. Videos Check for screen and equipment
Set up the equipment ready to start
Explain what is to come
Tell what to watch for beforehand

19. Graphs Advantages Impression of precision and professionalism
Image = reality
Easier to understand relations, tendencies, or compare figures

20. How to use them? 1. Introduce subject. What does it show?
2. Transition. Let’s turn to …
3. Explain source and features (axes, etc.)
4. Describe the visual (movement, etc.)
5. Comment and analyse.
6. Do not read or explain everything.
7. Use round figures and emphasize trends.

21. Types
Graph
Bar chart
Pie chart
Other

22. Frequency of other engagement markers: imperatives (IMP), rhetorical (RHET) and real (REAL) questions
Presenter
1Imp/X sec
1Rhet/X sec
1Real/X sec 1 -
64.4*
290 2
201.4
705 3
206
27.5* 4
425
68.7 5
450
128.6
300 6
141.6*
354
177 7
482 8
477 9
229
485 10

23. Classification of personal styles

25. Practice makes perfect!
Practise
integrating visual into talk
operating equipment
emergency actions

26. Number of graduates in the past 20 years

27. Number of graduates in the past 20 years

28. Number of graduates in the past 20 years

29. Distribution of art majors

30. Acceptance figures in three Hungarian universities inthe last 20 years