3 Thing I Learned About Presentations

It was very hard for me to pick just three things to talk about after reading the blog post and the hints on the website. I feel like I am terrible at doing presentations and never feel comfortable speaking in front of a large number of people. The blog gave me several little hints on how to make the powerpoint slides more useful and how to use them better in relation to the audience. My biggest problem is that I seem to go into a trance and begin reading straight from the slides, and now I know plently of ways to use the slide to aid my presentation while not reading straight from them. Here are the three things that helped me most about presentations:

1. I never how helpful it is to actually make your slides as simply as possible. In the Gary Reynolds website I found that his slide tips really allowed me to realize I was one of the people that created the type of "eye chart" slide rather that a visual aid. I feel like that will help me alot with creating my slides for this presentation.

2. I also didn't realize that using cheezy art slides rather than good 3d art was looked down upon. I would usually look through clip art for something to help me out with my slide, now I know I should probably look online for something that looks much more realistic and better.

3. I never knew how much time one could spend preparing for a presentation, it said in the blog a minimum of 20 hours per hour of presentation, to work on the slides and talk. If I consider this ratio relative to my presentation I should probably start practicing now!