Multimedia Learning Principles3
- Multimedia: Pictures + Words > Words Alone
- Modality: Spoken Text + Images > Written Words + Images
- Redundancy: Don’t Read Your Slides
- Contiguity: Keep Like Things Together (in time and space)
- Coherence: Remove Irrelevant Images & Words
- Segmenting: Break Lessons Down into Chunks
- Personalization**:** Conversational > Formal Speech
8 Steps to Developing a Great Presentation4
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Step 1 – Become Inspired by the Great Speakers
- Victoria Brazil (@SocraticEM)
- Scott Weingart (@emcrit)
- Ross Fisher (@ffolliet)
- Ted Talks
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Step 2 – Create a Narrative/Story That You are Passionate About
- What about the topic makes your heart sing?
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” Steve Jobs
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Step 3 – Brainstorming (Get Ideas Out of Your Head)
- Ditch the computer and go analog (pad and pencil)
- What frees your mind? (i.e. Exercise, Notepads, Index Cards, Post it Notes, Mind Maps)
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Step 4 – Crafting Your Message
- What are the critical things your learners need to take away from your presentation
- What is your core message (The crux of your talk)
- 2 – 4 teaching points that revolve around your core message (This depends on the length of your talk: 15 min, 30 min, 60 min)
- Essentially in this step you can summarize your talk in 2 – 3 sentences (i.e The Elevator Pitch)
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Step 5 – Building Your Presentation Skeleton
- Developing a flow to your talk (i.e. Storyboarding, Writing an Outline)
- Can do this analog or digital (I.e. PowerPoint, Keynote etc)
- At the end of this process you have a slide deck of nothing but empty slides with presenter notes identifying the details/point of each slide
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Step 6 – Fill Up Your Slides (Creation of Your Supportive Media)
- Start filling slides with hi-resolution images, not lines and lines of text
- Reading from a PowerPoint slide is not the same thing as teaching
- Our minds cannot process audio and visual content at the same time, but given the choice we tend to read instead of listen
- Some Sites with Hi-Resolution Images:
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Step 7 – Rehearse and Practice Your Talk
- “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” Bruce Lee
- Focus on the introduction and conclusion of your talk because these are the most memorable for the audience
- Practice until you are comfortable with the information in a talk (i.e. Imagine the power goes out and you have to give your presentation without your slides)
- You don’t have to practice the talk from beginning to end, you can actually practice chunks of your talk at a time before doing the full rehearsal
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Step 8 – Seek and Get Feedback on Your Talk
- Bounce ideas off friends (i.e. Buddy System)
- Record yourself speaking and give it a listen or ask a friend to listen
- Have someone in the audience who you trust to give you specific feedback on your talk (i.e. delivery, performance, slides, etc…)
- In smaller group formats, hand out index cards and after the talk have the audience write 3 things they learned from your talk. Then see if there is harmony between what your teaching points and what the learner took away
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Websites/Textbooks Mentioned During the Podcast:
- P Cubed Presentations – p1 (The Story), p2 (The Supportive Media, p3 (The Delivery)
- Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds
- Keynotable
Footnotes
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How well do workplace-based assessments support summative entrustment decisions? A multi-institutional generalisability study ↩
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„P Cubed Presentations“. P Cubed Presentations, o. J. Zugegriffen 5. Dezember 2023. http://ffolliet.com/category/science-of-fail/. ↩
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Ferguson I et al. Continuing medical education speakers with high evaluation scores use more image-based slides. West J Emerg Med 2017; 18(1): 152-8. PMID: 28116029 ↩
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https://rebelem.com/rebel-cast-ep-45-how-to-build-a-great-presentation/ ↩