WorksheetsS3.23_BUSM4573 W3: Designing Presentations
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 9mins
Designing Presentation Slides: Do we NEED slides ?
Absolutely
NO
Some times
We would need SLIDES
1. if We talk in business setting
2. If We want to talk about business figure
3. If We want to communicate some complex information
Answers 2,3
Answers 1,2,3
So why do we need SLIDES ?
1.Remind us what to say (Tex-based)
2.Impress audience, emotional impacts (photographs)
3.Explain stuff to the audience (chart, diagram…)
4.Prove something (raw data, figure, number)
True
False
The consequences of too much text in a slide
1. Low contact with your audience
2. Become an automatic reader of the slides
3. Lacking of focus
1&2
1&3
Design is not structure, design is about creating decoration
True
False
PowerPoint Failures:
1.Not enough information provided to support the main point
2.Too slowly
3.Read word by word
4.Too much material
5.Too much irrelevant details
by DR. Stepen Kosslyn
True
False
In Designing Presentations, what are the priorities
1.Structure comes first, decoration, second
2.Communication status
3.Creativity (Fun, cool, beautiful)
4.Functionality (goal)
All of the answers
Design Principles No.1
•Design is planning
•Design is attention management
•Design is communicating priorities
•Design is to prioritize stuffs
True
False
Design Principles No.2
1. Design is to address the need of audience
2. Designer is somebody who makes things easier, more functional, more practical, and communicate the priorities to the audience
3. You have to decorate first, structure comes second
Answers 1&3
Answers 1&2
The INTRO Method – Beginning the Presentation Period. And INTRO stands for:
•Interest: stimulate audience’ interest in the subject matter for the presentation period
•Need: tell the audience why they need to know the information (past experiences, their future, and/or their interests and values)
•Time: review how the presentation time will be devided
•Range: discuss the range of presentation activities or flow
•Objective: State the instructional objective(s) you have prepared. Let the audience know that “By the end of this presentation, we hope you will be able to…”
True
False
