CHAPTER 13

Adapting (Verbally) and Visually

Speech Action Steps

1. Choose a Topic & Goal

2. Develop Content

3. Organize and Develop Material

4. Adapt Material to Audience (Visual Aids)

5. Practice

Speech Action Steps

Step 4 Adapt

LO2: Developing Visual Aids

LO3: Displaying

Action Step 4: Adapt – Visual Aids

LO2: Developing

Benefits

Types

Choosing

Designing

Action Step 4: Adapt – Visual Aids

Benefits:

• Clarifies message

• Retain information

• Different learning styles

• Speaker credibility & confidence

Action Step 4: Adapt – Visual Aids

• “Presentation AID”

Types of Presentation Aids

Objects Models Photographs

Diagrams Maps Charts

Graphs Audio Audiovisual

Types of Presentation Aids

•Seen

•Simple

•Safe

•Self or another

Objects or Models

Types of Presentation Aids

•Student examples

•Bees

Photographs

Example: Photograph

• Cape Hatteras

Lighthouse

Source: National Park Service

Types of Presentation Aids

•Student examples

•Palm reading

Diagrams

Figure 1. Source: waiting.com

Types of Presentation Aids

•Size

•Relationships

Maps

Example: Maps

Types of Presentation Aids

•Visual display

•Complex info

•Shows relationships

Charts

Word Chart

Tuition per semester - 2011

Lenoir-Rhyne $13,262

Gardner-Webb $11,560

UNCC $2,720

Mitchell $1,064

http://www.soicc.state.nc.us

Types of Presentation Aids

•Bar

•Line

•Pie

Graphs

Word Chart

Tuition per semester - 2011

Lenoir-Rhyne $13,262

Gardner-Webb $11,560

UNCC $2,720

Mitchell $1,064

http://www.soicc.state.nc.us

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2007 Tuition

Lenoir Rhyne

Gardner Webb

UNC Charlotte

Mitchell CC

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Pie Graph

Funding Sources

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County

Institution

Types of Presentation Aids

•Short clips

•TEST!!

Audio / Audiovisual

Choosing Presentation Aids

Important Ideas

Complex Ideas

Adds Interest

Limit Number

Audience Size

Easy to Use

Time & Expense

Preparing Presentation Aids

• Print

• Layout

• Color

Preparing Presentations Aids

Layout

• Limit the reading required of the audience. The

audience should not spend a long time reading the visual

aid; you want them listening to you. Limit the total number

of lines on an aid to six or fewer, and write points as short

phrases rather than complete sentences. There should be

as little text on the screen as possible to communicate the

ideas.

Simplify: The Rule of Six

• Six lines of text

• Six words across

• Write as phrases

• Do not use sentences

Print

• Keep the typeface easy to read

• Use Upper and Lowercase letters

• Keep the typeface easy to read

• Use Upper and Lowercase letters

• ALL UPPERCASE IS HARD TO READ

Print

• Easier to read:

• Tahoma

• Arial

• Verdana

• Less easy to read:

• Times New Roman

Color

• Use same color background

• Black, deep blue for lettering

• Use bright colors to highlight info

• No more than four colors

• Use the “templates”

• Student example

Example

• Approximately 28% of adults in Iredell County have an

Associates Degree or higher

• 2010 US Census Data

In Iredell County

28

72

Degree

AA or higher

Less than AA

Action Step 4: Adapt – Visual Aids

LO3: Displaying

Posters • Stations

Whiteboard • Collaboration

Handouts • Complex info, need for reference

Projected • Almost all visual aid types available

Speech Action Steps

Step 4 Adapt

LO2: Developing Visual Aids

LO3: Displaying

Step 5 Delivery

LO6: Handling Presentation

Aids