Webinar presenters should smile when you speak to add energy to your presentation. This is an old telemarketing trick, but works equally well for any presenter. Your smile really comes through in your voice and we improve the audience’s perception of your likeability and friendliness. Other research shows that likeability directly impacts your audience’s reception […]
Scripting your webinar presentations?
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Webinar Tips – Create a Conversational Webinar
A conversational approach helps on so many levels – new or related insights are often shared during a conversation, there is more presenter energy, and audio interest is heightened from hearing multiple voices. But it can’t be just an after-thought – you really should design it in to your presentation. What do I mean? We […]