When I do professional development workshops with librarians about teaching, I always approach it from the angle that what I’m really doing is giving people a vocabulary and framework to explain what they’re already doing. This is valuable because it validates what people are already doing well, gives people a way to share the good work they’re doing, and it gives them a way to know what areas they are already doing well in and what they could improve in.

I just came across  Ned Potter‘s presentation on giving presentations and I realized that what I was looking at was exactly that type of information, but about something I hadn’t taken the time to research or develop a vocabulary around. Take a look:

So good! So many of the things I think about in presentations are included in the presentation:

• Performing and practicing
• Matching style and context
• No reading; no bullets; no apologies
• Images are important
• Font, color, and design are important
• Use flat slides with no animations or sounds
• Make one point per slide
• Use full sentence headlines instead of words (I’ve only recently moved towards this)
• Blank slides have power

Thanks, Ned! I hope this gets you a few more views.