Next Level of Academic Presentation

Today I am doing one presentation for my research proposal and next week I have to present the report of one pilot study. As a grad student, presentations are the things that keep demanding your time and yet you couldn’t put it aside because it is the main part of your study. Regardless of being a student, a business person, an academician or anyone, as long as you have some great ideas to share the people, you might want to present your idea perfectly to achieve your goal. As a human nature (it will be truer if I said my nature) people get boring when they see the same thing repeatedly and start losing interest on those. No doubt, the most obvious purpose of the presentation is that you want to share some important message to some group of people, right? What if you couldn’t give any attraction or make impression to the audience to give your message? So let’s end that outdated freaking old style of presentations! There are so many useful presentation tools and tips out there. Anyway hereby I collected some useful links and tips.

But wait, I assumed that you have great ideas, good contents and you know what you are talking. The content and personal presentation style are the another things which play and share the same level of importance with visual presentation attractions.

# Say NO for bullet points

# Say NO for many texts, be selective for important ones

# Make it BIG for important message

#Play with colors: I know you still use the Microsoft power point presentation, it would be super cool if you could tried your own design with the flat colors and stop using the readymade templates. Here is the link for Flat colors and when you custom the color in the Microsoft power point, you might need to covert red, green and blue values from hex value (which is 6 digits), here converter.

#Try new presentation tool: My favorite online presentation tool is Canva , which is really great with a lot of features and easy to use and also it is FREE. You can create not only presentation slides but also outstanding design for social media, poster, blog graphic and many more.

# Go beyond formal: While other students share their works slides by slides, do some animations and tell your story. This is not so common in academic field and not that formal as well. However it will surely entertain and draw the audience’s attention. You can see one of my example white board animation presentation.