Hi Cindy,
As a recent business school graduate, PT slides are the protocol for
presentations, not text in a Word format for your audience to see. This will
be unacceptable.
If you can identify someone who will create the slides for you, you could write
out your slide title and the intro for the first slide not to exceed two or
three short sentences.
then a heading for subsequents slides with your bullet points for each.
Present it to that person this way:
Slide One: title Name and the brief intro written in two or three short
sentences.
Slide 2, slide 3, etc. should all have a heading with bulleted points under
each slide heading not to exceed one short sentence for each bulleted point. Do
not list less than 2 or three bulleted points and no more than 4 or 5 at the
most.
arrange for a colleague, or with someone working at the event, to move from one
slide to the other on your cue. You can be reading your text from a Word doc on
your computer with one ear phone in yor ear. Be sure to practice reading this
way so that you can adjust the speed of Jaws to a level that flows naturally.
You will also need to use the up/down arrows to move from one sentence to the
other so be sure that your sentences are short by breaking them up onto
subsequent lines.
It's acceptable to present this way for long presentation since you cannot
refer to the slides reflected from a projector.
Also be sure to include an indication to yourself when you need the slide
person to move to the next slide. Example, at the beginning of your
presentation, the slide person will have slide one up with title and intro.
After your intro, it should say, please move to slide two. After that section,
your text should read, please move to slide 3 and so on. The closing slide
should say, "Closing" When you get to that point in your presentation, say,
please go to the closing slide which should also be in the text you are reading
from.
If you locate someone to create your slides, it will not take them long if you
provide them with your title, intro, slide headings and bulleted points. Ask
that person to make them attractive with a theme background, the bulleted
points and a font that is consistent from one slide to the other.
Do not mixed fonts sizes and only the first word of the bulleted sentence is
capitalized unless there is a proper noun within the bulleted sentence.
The background theme should be the only graphic but not so much that the
audience is unable to read your bulleted points. No additional graphics are
needed as they will distract from your presentation message.
An alternative course of action can be to write a one-page handout with your
title, Intro and sentences, and headings that say: slide then list the bulleted
points, slide 2 then those bulleted points, and so on. Do not write out the
body of each section in the handout. Do that only for the Word doc you will be
reading from.
I would help you but I have stopped working on a grant proposal to write you
this message. My proposal is due by 10pm today, as part of an online program I
am enrolled in. But, I hope these recs were helpful.
-Nadine
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From: vibug-support-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vibug-support-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cindy Wentz
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2016 3:25 PM
To: vibug-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vibug-support] Using Word v. Powerpoint
Hello VIBUG people,
I need to give a presentation to a bunch of sighted people this week. I can
guarantee that some of them are visual learners. And I don’t know how to
create a Powerpoint document! So my question is - can I do it in Word by
spreading the text over several pages and then just going from page to page as
my visual aid (with computer able to show these pages to the audience)?
1. I don’t have enough time to get someone to put it into Powerpoint.
2. I don’t want to put material in a handout or on a flip chart.
Thanks for your help.
Cindy
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