AE 440 Oral Presentations

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AE 440 Oral Presentations

• Requirements and Tips

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Oral Report Guidelines

• Length is only 5 minutes
• Slides need to be clearly legible
• Avoid overcrowding and small fonts
• In bottom right corner, put your last name and
  slide number

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PowerPoint Overview

• Purpose
• Text
• Images
• Color
• Design
• Tools

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Purpose

• What PowerPoint is
• Organizational tool
• Support structure
• Visual aid
• What PowerPoint is not
• Repository for entire talk
• Outline of talk

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Text

• Use legible, large fonts
• Sans serif fonts
• Arial
• Helvetica
• Verdana
• Use consistent font type
• Avoid fancy fonts
• No underlining
• Use bold, color, or italics for emphasis

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Images

• Images should be clear1,2

• Remember to cite images

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Images

• Images should be pertinent to subject matter and
  section4

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Color

• Use complementary colors
• Color schemes should use no more than 3 colors
• Be sure that foreground and background are
  contrasting

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Readers Familiarity with Subject, Expectations, and Education Readers Familiarity with Subject, Expectations, and Education Readers Familiarity with Subject, Expectations, and Education Readers Familiarity with Subject, Expectations, and Education
Readers Familiarity Expectations Education
Experts (Scientists/Engineers) Most know theories as well as practical applications, abbreviations, jargon, and complex abstractions in their own fields. Most prefer straight forward presentations want to know purpose do not want explanations of what they already know. Undergraduate or graduate degree, or equivalent experience in specialized fields.
Professional Non-Experts (Executives/Managers) Most know general concepts of the field in which they are working. Most prefer definitions and explanations of concepts and procedures prefer information that help make decisions. Undergraduate or graduate degrees, or equivalent experience, often in areas peripheral to the technical areas for which they are responsible.
Technicians (Engineers) Most know specialized area in which they are working. Most prefer straight-forward definitions and explanations. 2 year or undergraduate degree.
Students Often know generalizations in field. Most prefer information that helps them assess and/or learn in theory as well as practice. Specialized training from internships or course work.
General Readers Often know generalizations in a field. Most prefer information that helps them assess and do. May be highly educated.
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Color

• Use complementary colors
• Color schemes should use no more than 3 colors
• Be sure that foreground and background are
  contrasting
• Some color donts

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Black text on blue background.
Multiple colors in one line.
Bright yellow or green (except for emphasis).
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Design Proximity

• Similar items should be grouped together3

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Design Alignment

• Nothing should be placed on the page
  arbitrarily3
• Line things up on x and y axis

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Design White Space

• Include white space on slides
• Crowded slides are confusing and difficult to read

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Medieval RhetoricExploring the Visual
Multimedia hypertext is closer in spirit to the
medieval illuminated codex than it is either to
the ancient speech or to the modern printed book.
In an illuminated manuscript the decorated
letters created a subtle space in which verbal
text and image were perfectly merged.
The struggle between icon and alphabet is not,
to be sure, anything new, as the history of
illuminated manuscripts attests. This complex
interaction of word and image never actually
vanished it only fell out of fashion (34).
We can also point to much earlier examples of
multiple-media displays, such as the medieval
illuminated manuscripts that combine text,
graphics, and representational images (51).
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Design WYSIWYG

• Beware the WYSIWYGs in PowerPoint
• Animation
• Animation can be used to solve over crowding
  issues

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Medieval RhetoricExploring the Visual
Multimedia hypertext is closer in spirit to the
medieval illuminated codex than it is either to
the ancient speech or to the modern printed book.
In an illuminated manuscript the decorated
letters created a subtle space in which verbal
text and image were perfectly merged (110).
The struggle between icon and alphabet is not,
to be sure, anything new, as the history of
illuminated manuscripts attests. This complex
interaction of word and image never actually
vanished it only fell out of fashion (34).
We can also point to much earlier examples of
multiple-media displays, such as the medieval
illuminated manuscripts that combine text,
graphics, and representational images (51).
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Design WYSIWYG

• Beware the WYSIWYGs in PowerPoint
• Animation
• Animation can be used to solve over crowding
  issues
• But too much is distracting

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medieval rhetoricexploring the visual
Multimedia hypertext is closer in spirit to the
medieval illuminated codex than it is either to
the ancient speech or to the modern printed book.
In an illuminated manuscript the decorated
letters created a subtle space in which verbal
text and image were perfectly merged (110).
The struggle between icon and alphabet is not,
to be sure, anything new, as the history of
illuminated manuscripts attests. This complex
interaction of word and image never actually
vanished it only fell out of fashion (34).
We can also point to much earlier examples of
multiple-media displays, such as the medieval
illuminated manuscripts that combine text,
graphics, and representational images (51).
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Design WYSIWYG

• Beware the WYSIWYGs in PowerPoint
• Animation
• Animation can be used to solve over crowding
  issues
• But too much is distracting
• Sound
• Sound is cool, but does it serve a purpose?

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Tools

• Speaker Notes

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Works Cited

• 1Space shuttle image. http//shemesh.larc.nasa.go
  v/images/shuttle-flame.gif Modified by D. Van
  Renen, 9/25/2007.
• 2Space shuttle image. http//shemesh.larc.nasa.go
  v/images/shuttle-flame.gif
• 3Williams, Robin. The Non-Designers Design Book.
  Peachpit Press, 1994.

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Works Cited

• 4Mission Operations image. http//lasp.colorado.ed
  u/mission_ops/index.htm Modified by D. Van Renen,
  9/25/2007.

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Questions?