Hans Rosling: The Best Stats You've Ever Seen
Hans Rosling’s
presentation was interesting in the way he took various amounts of statistics
and information and applied it to his PowerPoint presentations. As a high school teacher, there is an ever evolving
interest in the way we present information to our students in an innovative,
entertaining and interactive way. We
have opportunities to attend various training on how to incorporate different
types of programs that use interactive presentations to our students to keep
them engaged. Essentially, we are
competing with the ever growing innovation with cell phones and tablets.
Yes! Statistical data and complicated information
can be presented in interesting was.
More and more companies and organization have become really efficient in
using presentations incorporating different types of presentation technology to
keep adults alert and engaged when attending meetings. Because of what I have personally witnessed
in all my years as a teacher, seeing a dramatic jump in the way technology is
used in presentations, I do not think that most business presenters are
terrible.
From my point of
view, the three essential elements of a good presentation are one, know the
information being presented, two be passionate about the information presented
and three have a presentation created that illustrates the information
presented that has a style and personality of the presenter. In order to engage the audience with the
information, the presenter must be knowledgeable about the information
presented in a way that they know what they are talking about and articulate
that information to the audience in a way that they can understand and curtail
that information to fit whatever type of audience the information is being
presented to.
The presenter
needs to be passionate about the information being presented. If the presenter is knowledgeable about the
information, that presenter can be allowed to add their style and personality
to the presentation which can add flare to the presentation which will also
keep the audience engaged. keeping the
audience engaged is the key.
The presenter
must create their presentation in a way that that matches their personality so
that the presenter can be emotionally attached to the presentation which will
keep the audience engaged and allow the presenter to be entertaining as well as
informational. The style of the
presentation must also match the style and personality the presenter so
everything matches.
When all of these
elements are in place, the presenter is presenting the information as if he is
not presenting, but has a conversation with the audience and using the
presentation to beautifully illustrate the factual information being
presented.
According to my
reading this week, the elements needed to be a good presenter are:
*Use multimedia effectively.
The presenter must design the presentations surrounded by how society
access information on the web. This type
of reliability keeps the audience engaged.
* The presentation must be great in both visual and verbal
detail. Have a story to have the
audience relate to the presenter or the information to have an emotional
connection to the audience.
*Reduce the amount of information on each slide. Use the information on the slide to activate
the information that the presenter wants to talk about.
*Use high quality graphics including videos, photos and
audio. Remember that most people in the
audience use high quality technology at work, in their home and when they are
mobile. If the presenter does not use
high quality everything with the presentation, no matter how good the
information is, the presenter will lose most of the audience.
*Be mobile. Move
around the room to connect with the audience will presenting the information.
*Use a remote control to control the presentation. With the ever growing market on technology,
no
one in the year 2014
should have to walk back and forth to their computer to change to the next
slide.
It is my belief that many presenters fail to have great presentations
due to design issue can be for three reasons:
1.
The
presenter is not knowledgeable of computer technology or knowledgeable of PowerPoint
or presenter technology.
2.
The presenter does have knowledge of computer
technology and PowerPoint or presentation technology but does not have the
vision for high quality graphics and sound.
3.
The presenter misses the mark or is out of touch
with the technology of today and has an issue with adapting to new technology
innovation.
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