2. Visual Aids A quick and dirty primer

3. Visual Aids Audience Advantages –Add clarity –Indicate what’s important –Reinforce key points –Increase interest –Reach different learning styles –Aid retention

4. Visual Aids Speaker Advantages –Show preparedness –Add credibility –Help reduce fright –Add confidence

5. Visual Aids Simple Large Clear Consistent (An oil slick – get it?)

6. Visual Aids Not…

7. Visual Aids Not Simple

8. Visual Aids Visual Aids allow you to reach students of different learning styles because it adds a visual element to your oral presentation. This is especially important because today’s students seem to be more visual than other generations. It helps reinforce the key information in your presentation and keeps student interest focused on the front of the room. It allows you to give students clear prompts for their assignments, especially in-class assignments. They can always look up to refocus their attention to the assigned task. Visual Aids can be used over and over again and can be electronically moved directly to a web site so that students can look at it again after class and as many times as they want. It serves as Ockham’s razor by helping you structure your thoughts. Not Simple

9. Visual Aids Not Large

10. Visual Aids Not Large

11. Visual Aids

12. Not Clear

13. Visual Aids Not Consistent

14. Visual Aids Not Consistent

15. Visual Aids Use me for hard copy (with serif) Use me for projection (sans serif)

16. Visual Aids If using text –in general Six words per line Six lines per page

17. Visual Aids DON’T USE ALL CAPS… –It’s easier to read this... –…THAN THIS!

18. Visual Aids Color is important –Yellow –Brown –Green –Blue –Red –White

19. Visual Aids And so is intensity… –Green

20. Visual Aids A is worth

21. Visual Aids

22. But… …don’t over do it!

23. Visual Aids

24. What about displaying data?

26. Visual Aids Graphs –Give life to data –Make data more interesting –Show trends, patterns, and relationships

27. Visual Aids The type of graph –Depends on the kind and amount of data –Depends on what story you want to tell

28. Visual Aids Constructing a graph –Requires using your whole brain (just like mind mapping)

29. Visual Aids –Aesthetic thinking is needed to: Insure the visual look and feel is appropriate –Analytical thinking is needed to: Select the right graph type Insure the graph is complete & accurate

30. Visual Aids Graph Types

31. Visual Aids Line Graphs –Shows changes in data over time

32. Visual Aids

33. Area Graph –Variation on basic line graph –Shows the contribution of a set of data to the whole

34. Visual Aids

35. Bar Graph –Each column represents a particular category at one point in time –Compares related data –Almost always sorted

36. Visual Aids

37. Stacked Bar Graph –Variation of the bar graph –Shows contributions of sub-sections to the whole –At given point of time

38. Visual Aids

39. 3D Bar Graph –Another variation of the bar graph –Places one row of bars in front of another –Highlights comparisons –Again, at one given point in time

40. Visual Aids

41. Pie Graph –Compares the components of a set to each other –Shows percentage proportion of two or more values to a meaningful whole

42. Visual Aids

43. X-Y Graph –Also called Scatterplots –Shows correlation or relationship between two different sets of data –Data often have different scales of measurement –Best fit line shows type and degree of relationship

44. Visual Aids

45. Animations “Appear” works well Allows focus on each point Avoids audience reading ahead But don’t get carried away

46. That goes for sound as well