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How to Create and Present Professionally

Designing a solid presentation and presenting it competently can be difficult, especially if you don't have a lot of presenting experience. Here are some resources to help you be a more mindful and effective public speaker.

 

5 Rules for More Effective Presentations

 

10 Simple Rules for Giving an Effective Presentation

 

Below is a video of pieces of advice from professional public speakers about how to be a more motivating, interesting, and impactful speaker. (Closed captions are embedded).

Presentation Makers

Office products (PowerPoint) aren't the only option available for making slides to help support the content of your presentation. Here are some of the FREE platforms that the library suggests:

 

Prezi

Google Slides

EMaze

FREE Audio/Visual Resources 

Using any old image or audio/video file you pull from Google is legally problematic. It's better to focus on using the thousands of resources out there that have been specifically made to be free, accessible, and open-use. Click here and here for a list of venues the library recommends to find Fair Use or Creative Commons images, video, and audio.

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