One of the best tools you can use when delivering a speech is to use visual aids to describe parts of your speech. Visual aids allow you to demonstrate or explain a concept that may be more confusing to your audience than if you just explained it orally. You can create visual aids that are tailored to your speech. Doing so will increase the reception of your topic by the audience.
Instructions
Using Pictures
1. Find pictures that you want to use in your presentations. You may use places such as Google Image Search, a stock images site such as iStockPhoto, or create your own if you have the ability.
2. Print out your pictures using the printer. Your picture must be big enough so that anyone who is in the back of the room at your presentation can see the image clearly. If your printer cannot print a picture big enough, have a professional printer print it out or enlarge it.
3. Spray a light amount of spray mount onto the foamboard. Apply the picture to the board on top of the area you sprayed. Press down on the picture to remove any air bubbles. Wait about 10 minutes for the spray mount to dry.
4. Stack the visual aids on the easel you will use. Stack them so that the visual aids you are using first in your speech are on top, and the ones you use later are below. Add black pieces of foamboard inbetween each visual aid.
5. Deliver your speech. When you need to use a visual aid, lift up the board in front of it (it should be a blank one) and place it in the back of your visual aids. After you are done with the visual, lift it up and place it in the back, leaving another blank piece of foamboard in its place.
Using PowerPoint
6. Determine how many slides your presentation will need. A good rule of thumb is to include 10 slides for every 20 minutes of your presentation.
7. Add content to your PowerPoint file. Any text you add should summarize what you are discussing, and not be lines of text that you are reading or speaking. The text should be big enough so that anyone in the back of the room can see it clearly.
8. Add pictures to in your presentation. Again, the pictures should be big enough to seen in the back of the room.
9. Save your presentation onto a laptop computer.
10. Connect your laptop to the projector. If the room has its own audio/video (AV) equipment and you don't know set it up, have someone set it up for you.
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