{"id":1050,"date":"2014-07-29T14:22:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T21:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spreadingscience.com\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2014-07-29T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T21:22:46","slug":"too-many-videos-in-a-presentation-forgetting-that-the-audience-is-there-to-see-you-not-a-ted-talk-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spreadingscience.com\/2014\/07\/29\/too-many-videos-in-a-presentation-forgetting-that-the-audience-is-there-to-see-you-not-a-ted-talk-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Too many videos in a presentation \u2013 forgetting that the audience is there to see YOU, not a TED talk video"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GiardinaKARLSRUHE<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Think including a TED talk video can enhance your Powerpoint or Keynote presentation? Think again and think like a magician<\/a>
[Via Les Posen’s Presentation Magic<\/a><\/span>]<\/p>\n

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Last month, June 2014, I was part of a\u00a0nationwide travelling convention<\/a>\u00a0intended to bring high school teachers up to date with the field of\u00a0Positive Psychology<\/a>\u00a0and what it can offer students.<\/p>\n

This year its organisers wanted to pay particular attention to the place of Technologies in mental health, and so I was tapped to offer a series of talks as well as presentation skills workshops.<\/p>\n

The talks were part of a seminar featuring how to best understand how current and\u00a0imminent\u00a0technologies have a role to play in mental health in schools. The presentation skills effort was a one hour talk, showcasing the highlights of my half day and longer workshops.<\/p>\n

All in all, there were about a\u00a0dozen speakers, comprised of authors, psychologists, researchers and technologists including those from the Australian arms of Microsoft and Google, who visited the cities of Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne and Sydney.<\/p>\n

The arrangement, as told to me by the organisers, was that each city would receive the same presentations. On the surface, that sounds ideal and easy: the same talk four times. But as it turns out for a few of the presenters, including myself, this wasn\u2019t ideal and in fact we gave variations for all of our presentations. It was an iterative process, learning from each presentation what worked best and which slides and ideas appealed to the audience.<\/p>\n

By the fourth conference I felt I had \u201choned\u201d my presentations and delivered the \u201cbiggest bang for the buck\u201d; that is, in the time I had these were my most impactful presentations.<\/p>\n

During each of the conferences, conducted over two days including large auditoriums and break out rooms for smaller concurrent workshops, I was able to attend as an audience member and watch others in action.<\/p>\n

For\u00a0each conference, there were times when all the attendees (400+) would gather in one large auditorium to hear the speakers, including me on technologies.<\/p>\n

What I, and the organisers, found interesting were those highly paid professional speakers who gave the same presentation each time. I was perhaps the least known to the audience of all the presenters and likely the least financially compensated, so I had to prove myself and win over the audiences with my content and presentation style. Which is why I welcomed the opportunity to present and improve each time.<\/p>\n

[More<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Too\u00a0many people, either due to fear or inexperience, forget that it is the personal interaction \u2013 you are THERE – that explains the audience\u2019s presence. Otherwise they could just watch the video online.<\/em><\/p>\n

Anything on the screen has to enhance your presence. not detract from it. That is\u00a0what\u00a0Powerpoint bullet lists are deadly. Focus moves away from the speaker to a static list, often simply reread\u00a0out loud\u00a0by the speaker.<\/em><\/p>\n

Why even have them there?<\/em><\/p>\n

If the speaker cannot provide a reason why their personal presence is important, why should the audience?<\/em><\/p>\n

Videos need to be short and provide an easy to understand visual to support the speaker. Why show someone else speaking? That generally implies laziness, not exactly what an audience wants to see.<\/em><\/p>\n

Even in scientific presentations, the speaker is there to provide context, not to read data out loud. To be personal.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Think including a TED talk video can enhance your Powerpoint or Keynote presentation? Think again and think like a magician[Via Les Posen’s Presentation Magic] Last month, June 2014, I was part of a\u00a0nationwide travelling convention\u00a0intended to bring high school teachers up to date with the field of\u00a0Positive Psychology\u00a0and what it can offer students. This … Continue reading Too many videos in a presentation \u2013 forgetting that the audience is there to see YOU, not a TED talk video<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[24,25,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cargo-cult-worlds","category-exponential-economy","category-open-access"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe2yp-gW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":588,"url":"https:\/\/www.spreadingscience.com\/2009\/10\/02\/thinking-by-design\/","url_meta":{"origin":1050,"position":0},"title":"Thinking by design","date":"October 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"IDEO on TED, Tim Brown on thinking big in design: [Via Andrew Hargadon]For anyone not already in IDEO's PR reach, Tim Brown's presentation at TED in July has been posted. 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