Spice up your presentations!

Sometimes presentations can be quit boring and the audience will lose its focus quick. What can you do to spice up your own presentation? One option is to make a large research poster, another is to design an interactive presentation. Both options can work in different situations. When you are in the middle of a study, a poster can give a nice overview of your findings. When you have to sell your ideas to other people an interactive presentation is the best solution.

When you are going to design a large poster, keep the following statements in mind;

• Less in more. Too much text is too much work for the audience so keep the poster clear and just use the most important statements.
• Make it fun. An attractive poster gets more attention and can manage to draw the attention towards your design. A nice image or picture does make the difference.
• Structure well. An unstructured poster is hard to understand so if your research includes different groups or phases, structure the poster with this information.

There are many examples on the Internet to structure a poster but when you do not want to design it yourself, there are many templates which can be downloaded. Words like ‘examples research posters’ or just ‘A0 posters’ give a lot of results in Google.

Another tool to spice up your presentation is to make a presentation in Prezzi. With this program you can design the greatest presentations with interactive parts, video’s, audio and movement. Success is guaranteed if the presentation is designed well. It attracts the listener en manages to keep the attention high. The features of Prezzi are endless and with a little time and creativity you can design a really nice presentation. Use video’s, music and a lot of movement to attract the audience and present your ideas. In the movie below an example of the possibilities of Prezzi is shown.