Key Points for Video Presentations
Every graduate student or postdoc should have:
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Two presentations per year |
| Duration of a presentation: 20-30 minutes plus discussion, maximum of 40 minutes |
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Form: Online presentation with MS PowerPoint or similar tool |
Pointers for the video conference presentation (do's and don'ts)
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Place the microphone exactly in the middle and as high as possible of your shirt (very important) |
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Speak with clarity and allow the audience to digest your information (incorporate pauses between transitions) |
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Don't overload your slides with information. Add additional slides with details instead of copying everything on one page! |
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Font size PowerPoint presentation: Never (!!!) smaller than 24 pixel, better 32 and bigger. |
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Format: Always Landscape, never Portrait (screen is in landscape format) |
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Black text on a white background
is not an effective color scheme as a dark background with light text.
A
dark blue background with yellow header
and white text is a color scheme that provides better
visual clarity, especially on a TV monitor, than black and white. Use/download
our PowerPoint templates. |
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How
to print our colorful presentation in Black & White? [click
here for the answer] |
| Be aware of the microphones on your desks, they record every noise (including passing of paper, potato chips etc.) |
| Sound problem: If you indicate a sound problem, please report it immediately by saying your location first and then the location, you can't hear (e.g. "this is Chapel Hill, we can't hear Texas"), not just "Tom, we can't hear you ..." So, the video technician don't have to search first which location does have the problem with who. |
| Questions: Please start any question by saying first your name and location, e.g. "This is Eric from NC State ..." |