Presentations using maps and charts

How to give a presentation.

Presentations can be used to convince or persuade people or just to give them information.

The key to any good presentation is preparation. Planning your talk is crucial.

Prepare your points, slides and props in advance, so that your message is clear.

It is important to know who your audience is as this will inform the design of your presentation.

Oh, vampires, that explains a lot.

My goodness. That is a lot of text. Try and make your introduction shorter and punchier.

Play about with your design to find something that will appeal to your audience. That's better.

But let's not go too far, avoid unnecessary transitions as they can be distracting.

You might want to use graphs, charts or quotes to support your ideas. Or maybe you have some research to support your points.

And that's a good, strong message to end on. I think he's ready.

His body language looks confident, doesn't it?

He's making eye contact with the audience. That is good, good delivery of the opening message.

Remember to project your voice. Speak clearly.

SIGHS

This is a tough audience.

Don't rush. Your audience need time to read your slides so only put up key points, not everything you're going to say.

Try not to turn your back on the audience or read from the screen.

At the end, repeat the main points and round off with something memorable.

Very good indeed. A splendid job.

And you should always thank your audience at the end and ask if they have any questions.

They like it. Hooray!

But quite frankly, I think anyone interested in Red Fang has to be a bit batty. Told you so.

How to use maps, charts and graphs in writing.

Graphs, charts and maps are very useful for presenting complicated information in a visual way that is easier to understand.

Imagine that we are putting together some details for the live online programme about the Monster Games.

Let's look at where all of the different events are taking place.

That's a lot of information to take in. How about we use a map instead?

This way we can sure where all the events are taking place using a key like this.

We can see how far away everything is using the scale.

There, that's much easier to understand now.

Where is the one hundred metre race taking place?

Ah yes, in the Ghastly Garden. Right, that will be a good one to watch.

Just in time and they're off.

Well, that's an unusual way to win a race. Lets look at the results.

We can see the Mummy came first, but by how much?

If we use a bar graph, we can see this information much more clearly.

We will put the runners along the X axis along the bottom and the time up the Y axis up the side.

Each runner's time is then represented by a bar in the graph.

You should label your graph so that it is easy for your reader to see what they are looking at. There, that's better.

Just look how quick the Mummy was or at least his arm.

I wonder how many medals each monster has won?

A pie chart is a good way to show this clearly.

Each section of the pie chart represents how many medals each monster has won as a portion of the total number of medals.

The bigger the piece of pie, the more medals they have won.

Remember to give your chart a title. Much better.

My goodness, the Mummy has been doing very well at these games, hasn't he? Especially considering he's been dead for two thousand years.

But those two don't look very pleased with him.

Oh, there are some things that we don't need to see any more graphically. Thank you very much.