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How to do Visual Supports/Aids for an Oral Presentation

A Power Point, a poster, a Canva presentation. It is so easy to get them wrong to the point they end up being more an annoyance than a helpful tool. There are a few things to keep in mind to avoid these:

1. They are VISUAL, not blocks of texts

When you are doing the presentation, your visual supports helps your audience connect the ideas you are explaining (with arrows, diagrams, etc) and help you remember what you should say next. If you forget what you have to say, the information needs to be easy to find in your visual support. This means:

NO blocks of text

NO small text

NO hard to read font

NO extra information

NO compressing of information

NO images as background

What you should do instead to make it easier to find and read:

Use a big and undertandable font

Use arrows, diagrams, concepts maps, etc. Anything that isnt a block of text

Separate ideas with font size. Title: gigantic. Primary ideas: Major big. Secondary ideas: big

Only write the nessesary information, dont overwrite (we'll revise this later)

Look at these. If you were in front of your professor and needed to quickly check for a number, a word or a concept you forgot, which one would you rather find when you turn your head to your visual aid?

It looks hard to make your aids look like that, but there are a lot of pre-made presentations you can use. I personally like Canva for that but if you know how to use (really use, the whole tricky trick thing) Power Point/Prezzi/LibreOffice are literally heaven.

2. Dont put unnesasary images

They dont help you. You ignore. Your audience ignores it. At most, it makes you waste seconds when you try to look up the info. Why is it there? Because there is an empty space and you want to fill it. Because the presentation is a block of text and you want to make it look more presentation-like. If you wont use it, dont put it. Save the space for graphs or symbols that help identify what you are saying (ex: you are talking statistics, put ten symbols of people and paint them in different colors according to your numbers). Negative space is better than a distracting image that turns away your focus of the important stuff

3. Only write important information

This is probably the hardest thing to do. In your presentation, time and space is limited; you cannot explain everything, you have to pick. And in your visual aid, specially so. My way of picking what to write is the next:

Divide your presentation in the big topics. Like, the titles of all you are covering.

For each title, think what are all the important concepts (or ideas) you have to explain in your presentation. Shortly, a few words each

Define those concepts. Not more than a line or two

Is there ant other information you cannot miss at all?

Now you have all the parts. Write only these and not even that. Sometimes, you dont need to write Point 3. When you are speaking, you can should expand the concepts, add examples, etc but in your visual aid, a few words/sentece is all you need

4. Keep it topic-appropiate

When you are preparing you aid/support, of course you are going to use different colors and add some shapes to keep it dynamic. But! if you are presenting consequences of child abuse for your psych class, adding the rainbow of colors and flowers may be a little bit insensible. Keep in mind what you are presenting, use appropiate colors/colors that fit (scale of greys for sensible topics, greens for nature, blue for corporate/bussiness and like that).

5. Have a secuence

Both your presentation and your visual aid have to be organized. There needs to be a logical order and no repetition. For your presentation you should have a draft/guide and that order should be the same for you aid. If you are presenting a problematic, you start talking about the causes and your first slide has to be the causes. Next what it involves so your slide has to have the topic and like that. The order in which you speak and the order in your aid have to be the same and they have to be organized

Now that we covered the basics, go luck with your presentation!

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Don't put extreme goals for yourself to achieve, that girl aesthetic that does everything and never fails is impossible and unrealistic, you are human

Don't waste another morning watching other people's lives instead of getting up and doing something more useful

The first thing you will do when waking up its drink a glass of water, it takes oxygen to the brain and makes you wake up faster

Focus in one goal, wanting to achieve several goals at once will make you procrastinate more and not achieve anything

Set a timer for your apps, it makes your be more aware of how much time you're spending on each app

Make a list of gifts to give yourself when you achieve a goal, it gives you motivation to achieve it faster

If you can't improve for yourself, at least improve to be a healthier person and present in the lives of the people you care about

If u can sleep 8+ hours, do it, put your phone down and sleep

Apples! They'll boost your energy and immunity so much

Self care isn't selfishness

Uninstall any app that makes you compare yourself

Don't hear people that ashame you and call you a "pick me", they're just unhappy and jealous of you because you show who you really are, love the things you love and keep being like that, don't change because someone thinks ur being "embarrassing"

That's it for the day, don't be hard to yourselves, luv ya💐

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Classes are starting to get intense. Tests and quizzes are being given. Presentations and projects are being assigned. I know this can all feel like so much and be so overwhelming. It's ok to cry. It's ok to hate it. But just know that no matter what your brain says, you are amazing, wonderful, and you can do this! It's going to be hard. But you can do it regardless. School is meant to be hard. It's hard for everyone. Don't let your brain lie to you and tell you that you're the only one struggling to keep up and balance it all, because you aren't.

You got this!!!!!

Also, you deserve a little treat for doing so well!

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Last song: currently listening to Little Wolf from the musical EPIC but I should probably list all of the song since it is everything I listen to in the last month

Favourite colour: light pink

Currently reading: I started Little Woman but haven‘t gotten far but I want to start Dune, also I am reading The Keeper of Night

Last movie: Inside Out 2

Currently watching: Modern Family rewatch

Sweet/savoury/spice: definitely sweet!

Current obsession: thb right now I don‘t have an obsession but the semester is about to start so we‘ll see how long this will hold

Tea or coffee: tea, i don‘t drink any kind of coffee

Last thing i googled: Atomuhr because I needed to check if the time was correct

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University started (finally!) And this semester my goal is to stay on top on all of my classes and do more of the assigned readings. Studyblr is really inspiring me

I already had my first seminar and it sounded really fun. I‘m looking forward to the lecture as well.

Have a nice and productive day 🍄

Finished my first draft! Yey.

I have send it to away for some control and feedback. Now only one paper and 2 and a half research projects remain. And two weeks (actually one because one week I'm visiting my sister)

I hope the paper is faster because I don't have to write it in english. Although I can write and speak and understand it pretty fine writing an essay for university in english hits different.

Finished for the day and will be probably playing Stardew Valley the whole evening.

29.01.2025🐙

I‘m back. I hope. For days I thought about posting again on Tumblr but somehow I didn‘t. But as exam season is now and I need to apply for an internship and start working and working a little bit on my bachelor thesis and writing two term papers and learn for my exam (not necessarily in this order). So I try to hold myself accountable and looking at other posts gives me motivation.

Things to do in general (until end of march) for university:

Learn for exam (make flash cards)✅

Term paper AI (think about prompt, write exposé, get feedback, write paper)✅

Term paper temple (?)✅

Bachelor thesis (formulate research question, look at R for data analysis, get more data✅, clarify supervisor)

Apply for internship (write applications)

So now I need to time manage well and prioritize my tasks.

Let‘s go and I hope I keep updating you guys. I try to post some pics as well. But today I don‘t have any.