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Presentation Tips and Resources

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Presentation Tips

Giving a talk or a poster presentation?  Here are some tips to help design it to effectively and convincingly deliver your message!

 

General Tips

Themes & Colors

  • use colors to guide the viewers attention and to organize your material for them
  • use a consistent color set or theme (tip: you can create your own color theme from scratch or based on an image at http://kuler.adobe.com by registering for free)
  • avoid using more than a small set of colors...too many and it'll seem disorganized and incoherent
  • use highly contrasting colors for text/background, but remember what looks visible on your screen won't necessarily look visible once projected
    • combos to avoid:

 

Acknowledgements

  •  don't forget to include the Maryland logo & mention your grant!

 

 

Presentations

Timing tips -- as a starting point, it is safe to assume it takes 1 minute per slide

Font sizes -- ??Does anyone remember Rachel's guidelines for "don't read me font"??

Slide titles -- one philosophy to consider is having your title be your main point of the slide in sentence form

Organization --

Slide content --

 

Posters

Poster size --

Font sizes -- ??Does anyone remember Rachel's guidelines for "don't read me font"??

abstract -- some viewers prefer having an abstract, so it depends on who your audience is

organization -- guide the viewer along the visual path you would like them to follow, using color, text size, placement, and graphics

 

 

Presentation Resources

Here are some places to visit, books to read, and tools to use in designing your talk/poster

 

books & websites:

Beyond Bullet Points -- http://www.beyondbulletpoints.com

Presentation Zen -- http://www.presentationzen.com

Zuler -- http://zuler.adobe.com

 

 

 

a video about Kuler for creating color themes: 

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