Three Tips for Creating Effective Presentations
Anthony Riniti on Friday, January 16th, 2015 Comments Off on Three Tips for Creating Effective Presentations
Three Tips for Creating Effective Presentations
- Communications researchers have identified concepts that have substantial implications for how we can create the Most effective presentations: People learn better from visuals and narrative than from words alone. This is because the brain has separate channels for processing visual and verbal materials, resulting in a higher level of understanding. (Mayer, 2009)
- Communication is actually inhibited when the same words are spoken and displayed on the screen because people cannot listen and read at the same time. (Paivio, 2007)
- People are capable of holding only a few pieces of information in their short ‐ term memory at a time. Our job as presenters is to make the message clear, memorable, and entertaining.
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