Creating effective slides: Design, Construction, and Use in Science

[@margounette16]

- Get your audience to / pay attention to / understand / be able to act upon/ a message - If you have to make a presentation at 1 o’clock and it is 9 in the morning, forget about slides - A template is not a logo and a footer and a blue band that wastes so much space on top of that, a template is a way to specify where the content should come and how the content should look once it comes there. That means as long as you don’t have content, there should be nothing - Don’t put the logo on each page but only on the first and latest page - A wonderful test of readability: print your own slides before you give the talk [on handouts] six per pages - Using a laser pointer hinders you of impressing the audience with your body

[@loreneverhaever283]

Thanks Margaux, you are great!!

[@margounette16]

@@loreneverhaever283 Ahahhaa thanks Lorène, you're awesome too :p

[@AK_Erwin]

Amazing lecture by Prof. Jean-Luc Doumont😍

[@loreneverhaever283]

-With each slide, convey one message. State the message verbally (subject, verb), develop it visually. -Be concise, both verbally and visually. -Using a laser pointer hinders you of impressing the audience with your body. -Preparation: practice your presentation at least once without your slides. (Imagine just before starting [the talk] your computer dies: would you have been able to give the talk? If yes: you are a speaker, if no: you are a museum guide).

[@AnastasiaKapravelou]

The Jean Luc Doumont three laws : 1. Adapt to your audience 2. Maximize the signal / noise ration 3. Use effective redundancy The "must ask" questions before giving a presentation are 1. Who is coming 2. How many people 3. What kind of people 4. What do they want from me 5. What do we want from them 6. How much time will I be speaking 7. Which is the room of the presentation Lastly, use the title area for communicating the message of the slide (32'). P.S Why not to use a laser pointer on 50'

[@CatarinaBeersmaJesus]

Wonderful presentation! Mr. Doumont theatrical style is funny and engaging. And the information very useful!

[@juandediosortuzarsalas9092]

Excellent, Jean-Luc ... what a pity that we do not have you visiting us again at PUC in Chile

[@Lukas-zl5zs]

This was an amazing presentation, huge respect!

[@matejspisak901]

Message wasn't clear, increase your signal-to-noise ratio.

[@0510Gaston]

Time is always a pressure factor during any presentation ... usually we only have 30 min maximum to present anything .. but stills nice and clear advices thank you for posting

[@SGurton]

Wow, so much great information in this presentation. I've got this bookmarked.

[@Buender]

This should be the first video that pops when you search "How to make slides"

[@LionelAncelet]

The problem in many organizations is that the corporate communication department creates an awfully cluttered template with a big logo, a legalese blurb that takes precious space on the slides, and an awkward colored bar for the title. Then you have to struggle to fit content on remaining space, because using the ugly template is mandatory.

[@weipengyao1724]

This is amazing! Thanks for sharing. I learned a lot and wish I can contribute to the great cause, one slide at a time...😁

[@iamphon99]

Thank you so much for this insightful and useful talk.

[@abalaba7045]

i really wanted to look at his promoted facebook, but i couldnt find it :(

[@flipsuryc]

I love the content and the delivery of this presentation! But.... if you close your eyes, I hear Klaus from "American Dad"

[@jhski9275]

I was forced to sit through this in one of my college lectures and that's all I could think of haha.

[@gerritventje]

why is this video blurred?

[@SreedharVedula]

Excellent advice!

[@Leozoologo]

I would like the video with subtitles (English of course)

[@CoffeePoints]

+Gomaster Great! Let me know when you've finished transcribing the entire video!

[@mozeuke]

That was wonderful! I'm so tired of seeing powerpoint presentations that are just plain RUDE to the audience

[@petergacs]

I found that slides as "notes to yourself" is actually not a bad idea, for lectures (as opposed to conference presentations). I do not project them, but they help in planning the blackboard, force me to break up the material into digestible pieces, and can be handed out as pdf to the students later as study help.

[@PresentationskillscoachingCoUk]

thought-provoking video...

[@alexanderm2220]

I think a big key step is knowing what you're talking about

[@Naomi-pt6uk]

amazing!!

[@madhavraje2275]

It's eye wash to many veteran speakers. Nice talk.

[@lismarvel]

If you are interested in learning more about this topic, I created a course called Expert Presenter which covers the creation of effective science slides along with how to present scientific information. For general information on better presentations and more effective communication you can listen to the free podcast The Public Speaker.

[@pdelmontel]

Preaching by example, as Prof Doumont does, goes a long way

[@joeyelkhazen6374]

shout out to all the um students who need to write the report for tonight

[@adv0kitty]

watching this for virology :0

[@gnanavel8288]

wonderful :)

[@tangomuzi]

No one gives true secrets of them. There are lots of professional tricks he used to design these slides but none of them mentioned. Such as: perception, color palettes, character types and sizes, places he put figures, writings, and many more. Good presentation. Probably you will be better after this presantation. But probably, still you will design bad slides.

[@assmaOm3omar]

I attended his workshop lately and he did mention a lot of the things you mentioned here. It is a 7 hours workshop and can't be covered in 90 mins video :)

[@BapiPradhan]

@@assmaOm3omar share some important insights if you can!

[@shubhamrana1783]

Focus on One slide one message Practice presentation without Slides Put only needed information in each slide Nothing is better than anything on slide So selective with your information Keep removing unnecessary information and reward yourself for that 😂

[@sruthisathyadevan1834]

He looks vaguely like Christoph Waltz..

[@SennisWorld]

well in several areas i do NOT agree... e.g. If there is a bullet you dont want - well get to know PowerPoint before using it.. the idea of making the bullet "invisible" is just stupid - remove the formatting that brings the bullet... like with every tool it is not the tool but the fool trying to use it without knowledge... It's very easy to Show bad slides - but why not give students EASY TO FOLLOW rules for good-to.read.and.-understand slides, like. not more than 4 bullets, max 6 words per bullett etc etc... much scientific talk with pretty small extract for the listener (besides the really good presentation skills.. but again: the recommendations are pretty General... ) PPT can be a Blessing or a curse - like a car you are driving - depends whether you can or cannot drive a car properly ;-)