For those using scripts during your live webinars or for on-demand presentations, this tip is guaranteed to improve your delivery: Make sure that you read your script out-loud! Why? Writing is for the eye, while your narration is for the ear. Good writing and punctuation does not always sound very natural. By reading your script […]
The Redundancy Effect and Your PowerPoint
We recently wrote a post on Richard Mayer’s ‘Ten Multimedia Design Principals‘ citing his book Multimedia Learning. I wanted to share another point from Mayer’s research that Cliff Atkinson drives home in his book Beyond Bullet Points called the Redundancy Effect. Mayer’s research shows that reading text displayed on the screen actually lowers retention. Mayer […]
Ten Multimedia Design Principals
sRichard Mayer is a professor in psychology at UC – Santa Barbara. Mayer is considered the authority on educational psychology, publishing over 18 books and 250 articles and chapters on the topic. Mayer and his colleagues conducted numerous experiments and studies into how we learn best through-out the 90’s. The result of their efforts was […]
Video Presentations, Video Interviews, Thin Slicing, and Priming
I just finished reading Malcomb Gladwell’s Blink, which is another fun read. I found two chapters in particular relevant to delivering effective video presentations. For the record, I am not a psychologist, so if you are, and what follows does not make sense, please set me straight by leaving a comment. In essence, modern psychology […]
Presentation science
I came across a presentation from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Buffalo on presentation science for educators. I thought it added a few good points regarding how we process information so have summarized the key points. Here are the highlights: The slides should not say everything that you do. (This is […]