Creating effective business presentations/Nonverbal Delivery Techniques/Visual Aids
Read Chapter 11.4 in Business Communication for Success. This reading gives an overview of the characteristics, design, and display of various kinds of visual aids and their strategic uses to illustrate, complement, and reinforce verbal messages.
Recommended: Do this modified version of the second chapter exercise. Experiment with using PowerPoint or another presentation software of your choice to create a slide presentation of three slides with no more than one image and three words per slide to illustrate the informative presentation you created earlier in the course.
Explore Visual Aid Creation Resources
Open license and public domain images sources:
Factsheet on How to Attribute Creative Commons Materials
Easy-use Media Creation Tools:
Animoto – Make short videos (30 secs) using images, music and text
Photo Peach – Make audio slideshows with captions from images in Flickr, Picassa or Facebook
Soundcloud – Make audio and music podcasts to accompany images
Storify – Make digital stories from web media like YouTube, FB, G+, Flickr, Instagram, Twitter
Visual Representation Examples
Turn Bullet Points into Visuals