These were common sense type tips that are good reminders for presentations. Having some guidelines for presentations is helpful if you want to know if you're doing it "right."
Five Ps
The most important of these (in my opinion) is to plan your time according to the time slot. How many times have I been frustrated when presenters in classes disregarded the time they were allotted and then used up others' valuable time? I tune out after a presenter has gone over the time slot because I'm worried about the time. This is a good article to give my students when they do presentations.
Writing for the Web
I will definitely use the HTML pointers from this article. The tips for writing can be applied to many types of writing. In our generation it's important to be concise and emphasize important information.
Seven Deadly Sins
Some of the most important of these include eliminating corny images and being careful of copyright infringement. Again, this is a useful article to use for a quick lesson for my students on effective presentations. They do not believe me when I tell them copying and pasting images can be a crime.
The other articles...
These all give wonderful tips on how to make sure presentations are effective and make the presenter look good and the information accessible. In the past I have had students just focus on the function of the presentation and not so much the details. The details often come together on their own but there are always a few students who should have had a tutorial on how to do an effective presentation. Perhaps I can do one of my presentations on this topic.
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I do think it is important to teach our students how to become good presenters. My students in the past have created awesome presentations, but lacked the ability to "present". It was difficult for them to get their message across, therefore bored their audience. I do believe that is the same for adults. We do need to keep our audience in mind. I too get bored easily with a long presentation and my mind tends to wander off. We need to consider the most effective way to get our message across.
I think you are right about planning being the key point to be made here. It is difficult as a teacher to remember our students need to take baby steps. learning in a methodological approach. The tricky part is to keep students engaged during the boring beginning planning steps.
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