How to effectively present in English in the 21st Century

Too often a presenter, so afraid of forgetting his or her speech, will type the content of their presentation into their slide. They do this in the hope their audience will think they are helping them. Sadly, no audience will think this. Your audience will assume you have done little or no preparation and quickly lose interest in your presentation.

However, both PowerPoint and Keynote have the ability to help you. What you need to do is to use “Presenter Mode” or “presenter View”.

What this essentially does is show the whole slide on the main screen and your notes and next slide on your computer monitor. By using this feature in your presentation software you can avoid having to type out your script and or reading your script from your slides.

Below are a couple of screen shots from both PowerPoint and Keynote to demonstrate what your view (on your computer monitor looks like in presenter mode. For more information on presenter mode in PowerPoint you can see Microsoft’s page on it here