|
Purpose |
Advantages |
Disadvantages |
|
Boards |
- To enhance audience involvement and understanding through demonstration
and participation.
|
- Highly visible
- Audience interaction
- Bright room
|
- Erasing
- Available space
- No permanent record
|
|
Charts |
- To enhance audience involvement and understanding through demonstration
and participation.
|
- Preparation in advance
- Well lit room
- Easy to use
- Works well in break-out groups
|
- Hard copy in large size
- Less professional in appearance
|
|
Computer Projected Overhead Slides (i.e. Power Point) |
- Provides key communication points
. |
- Very professional
- Attractive display
- Organization of material
|
- Assistance needed to input data
- Dark room
- Hard to maintain eye contact
|
|
Handouts |
- Provides in-depth detail and reference material that can be used
after the presentation.
|
- Preparation in advance
- Audience has take-home material
- Perceived value
- Audience can follow along
|
- Reading ahead can distract audience from speaker
|
|
Overheads (i.e. acetates) |
- Allows for audience participation, break-out exercises and team
work.
|
- Writing capability
- Versatility
- Preparation in advance
|
- Less professional
- Alignment can be difficult
- Time consuming to change – interrupts flow of presentation
- Projector can obstruct view
|
|
Video |
- Engages audience with real images, colour and sound
- Holds audience attention by dramatically changing media.
|
- Lively
- Engages more senses
|
- Dark room
- Start/stop can impact flow of presentation
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