6. THE PURPOSE OF USING VISUAL AIDS
• Visual aids support your ideas and improve audience
comprehension of your presentation.
• Visual aids help illustrate complex ideas or concepts
and are helpful in reinforcing your idea
7. THE PURPOSE OF USING VISUAL AIDS
Enliven a difficult/boring subject
• Make a presentation entertaining.
• Help the presenter to stick to the
intended plan.
8. WHY USE VISUAL AIDS IN
PRESENTATIONS? (continued)
Present figures, graphs or charts
Summarize key points
Help audience follow passages or quotations
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3) Photographs and prepared
diagrams/posters
• + used at the precise moment to illustrate
point
• + visible throughout presentation
• * consider how it should be displayed
• * may need a pointer
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4) Objects/models
• + adds sensory
dimension to
presentation
• * consider cost and
benefit
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5) Whiteboards
• + Flexible and interactive
• + suits small group
• - Writing clearly can be slow
• - Back to the audience
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6) PowerPoint Slides
• + Colorful and
professional looking
• + Suits groups of
various sizes
• - hard to keep
audience attentive
• - technical problems
• - lighting issues
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7) Video clip
• + can show clips of specific
examples discussed
• + add another dimension to
presentation
• - possible technical problem
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8) Transparencies
• + can be prepared in advance
• + can add or create transparencies while
presenting
• - Lighting problem