Big Idea Lab

Planning and Creating

This year you are presenting live on Zoom Meeting. Consider how this presentation differs from others you may have given in an in-person setting. What are some best practices for developing and delivering an effective and meaningful online presentation? How do adult learning needs and learning styles impact the packaging and delivery of content? What do you need to know about creating an environment and testing your equipment in advance? 

Check out a few of these resources that offer practical and easy-to-implement practices for planning and creating your overall online presentation content outline, slides, environment, and more!

• 11 Essential Tips for Presenting on Zoom (From Virtual Speech)
  Gauge your audience and open with pizazz! This article highlights how to structure questions for engagement, ending well, and managing communication skills.

• 15 Tips for Engaging Stress-Free Zoom Presentations (From Piktochart)
  This article overviews how to plan and prepare in advance thoughtfully in your environment, with your equipment, and your amount of content, as well as provides tips to use during your presentation such as posture, expression, and engagement.

• 11 Design Tips for Beautiful Presentations (From Visage)
  What differentiates a good presentation from a poor one? Content and design. These 11 tips will help you create well-designed presentation slides that effectively get your point across.

• Do Your Slides Pass the Glance Test? (From Harvard Business Review)
  An audience can't listen to your presentation and read detailed, text-heavy slides at the same time. This article explains how the audience should be able to comprehend each of your slides in about three seconds.

• 18 Ways to Make Your Presentation More Interactive (From VirtualSpeech)
  It can be difficult to hold your audience's attention for the entire presentation. An interactive presentation is much more likely to keep your audience's attention and build rapport with them.

• The 10 Principles of Effective Presentations. Hint: It's All In the Structure (From La Fabbrica Della Realta)
  From knowing your audience and why they are there, to introducing yourself and why you are presenting, this article highlights ten key principles to structuring your presentation to effectively communicate your point, the desired transformation and action steps, and emphasize the most important concepts.

For more articles about presenting the amazing content you have now created, check out this list of resources.