Friday, October 19, 2012
Public Speaking
Recently I have been attending a moms support group and every week we have the opportunity to listen to different speakers. Each speaker has had their own ways of delivering information and each way is effective in different ways. One of our speakers used PowerPoint slides with simple bullet points to help enhance her speech. I found this to be very helpful since I was taking notes and the simple bullet points made it easy to take notes while keeping up with the speaker. It was a great way to present the information in a way that the audience could take the information away with them. It is so easy to forget what the speaker has said but to have important points written down make it easy to remember parts of the speech. While I do not remember the entire speech simply writing down the speakers bullet points allowed to me to take notes and add any key points from her speech. Now when I look back at my notes I am able to recall various parts of her presentation and am able to use my notes to inform other people as accurately as possible.
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I talked about the same idea in one of my posts this week. I think that powerpoints can be very useful tools when you are doing a speech, but sometimes we tend to just pack them with so much information that it can be extremely overwhelming and distracting to the audience. One of the worst things people do with powerpoints is they put their speech word for word on the slides. In that case, powerpoint presentations can really work against you. You are correct that it does make taking notes and absorbing information so much easier when the slides are not cluttered, there are less bullet points, and each bullet point is not too wordy.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that PowerPoint presentations are much easier to follow when the presenter does not have them overflowing with words or pictures. Too much clutter distracts and too little bores. Everyone has to find the right balance to make their speech as effective as possible. Like you said, it's much easier to just write down the bullet points of a speaker and then take notes on their actual speech, rather than trying to write down every word off of their visual presentation if it is too wordy. I would be nice if some of my professors could do that when presenting with visual slides because they're always stuffed with words.
ReplyDeletePowerpoints are an excellent way to conduct a presentation. They're simple to put together and easy for the audience to go along with. They help follow a certain flow of ideas. I have loved using Powerpoints since I was introduced to them in elementary school, but I also like having them there when someone else presents for the same reasons you have discussed. When a speaker uses a powerpoint to present it helps the speaker keep his or her ideas organized in a certain fashion. Also as the audience it gives us some help seeing the main points of the speaker through bullet points but also gives us visual aid if the speaker attaches things to their slides such as photographs.
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