Find out if one will be available, and, if so, use it. In addition to using your visuals when you practice, test them in a room approximately the same size as the one in which you will be speaking to ensure that all members of the audience will be able to see them. Make sure the visual focuses on an important fact or issue, don t prepare a visual simply for the sake of having one, and make sure you include only relevant information. If your visual contains text, try to limit each line to five or six words, and try to have no more than eight to 10 lines of text per visual any more is distracting and will clutter the visual. If your visual contains pictures or graphics, make sure the audience can tell what they represent.
Students like to leave a presentation with something in hand.
These handouts do not have to be anything fancy or elaborate. For example, if you use PowerPoint for your visuals, you easily can reduce them and put them on handouts for the students. Seventh , encourage questions . Prior to your presentation, think of ways to stimulate students to ask questions in the event that no hands go up when you ask for questions. Either during or after the presentation, be prepared to answer questions.