This is a list of instructions and advice on how to use some of the most commonly used visual aids. These VAs will help you create dynamite presentations by reinforcing everything you say with attractive, easy to follow images. The most commonly used visual aids are 35mm slides, overhead transparencies, and computer-generated slides. Slides are probably one of the most common and easily accessible mediums for projecting large images in lecture halls and seminar rooms.
Many rooms come equipment with slide projectors and long extension cords for the remotes.
You will also need a slide carousel so that you can put all of your slides in the order that you'll view them. We do ask that you return the slide projectors and when done and try not to have the carousels checked out for more than a week at a time. Slides are nice and easy to use, but creating them can be expensive. You simply have to point a camera at it, with the proper film, and take a picture. At BCU we have trained photographers who can set up proper lighting to take quality slides from objects that are brought in, portraits of people, or even take pictures of other photos.