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Synchronous (Session) 21st Century Skills Workshop (45 min.)
Presentation Design with the Audience in Mind
When asked what the hardest part of a live presentation is, whether face-to-face or online, a reply I regularly receive from presenters is: the audience and their feedback. The reasons vary from anxieties surrounding public speaking to how the audience will receive and react to the contents and design of their presentations.
During the presentation design process, presenters find varying ways to represent their ideas using presentation software. A key component to effective presentation design is designing the presentation with the audience in mind. In these audience-centred presentations, there is deliberate movement away from presenter-centred presentations, in which the focus is solely on what the presenter has to say, and toward the audience –students and professionals alike– and how well the information can be relayed to them for maximal impact and understanding.
In this presentation, we will explore how we can design more effective audience-centred presentations.
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Lisa M. Hunsberger has been educator in the field of language and linguistics for 15 years. She has a Master's in Linguistics and has taught at universities in Jamaica, at a high school in France, and at every level in Japan from kindergarten to university. Thanks to her regular use of technological aids and presentation software in her classes since arriving in Japan, Lisa has developed a unique skill set that reignited her love of creative pursuits. She regularly speaks to audiences about the presentation design aspect of public speaking at a range of conferences and events. In her presentations, webinars, and workshops, Lisa strives to demonstrate precisely how professionals can, through the use of crisp graphics and simple animation, yield breath-taking results with a touch of creativity.