One is to pare the amount of information on the slides way down. The hazard of using too much text is twofold. One is that people will read the slides instead of listening to you present them. The slides, remember, are your visual aids: they are not the presentation itself. You are the presentation. The second hazard is that you yourself may fall into the habit of reading the slides, which is a quick way to lose the audience. You want the audience to focus on you and what you are saying. Slide 2, for example, can be trimmed to two bullet points. Bullet point 1 can be three words: Covid-19 disrupts business. Bullet point 2 can be three words: Communication is transformed. The rest of the information on the slide should be presented verbally rather than being written out on the slide. A good explanation of why it is important to trim down slides is in the ‘How to Avoid Death by PowerPoint’ video in Week 6. The Moodle logs show that you have not viewed that page: I recommend you do so and revise the slide deck here accordingly.
Another issue here is to revise the pie charts on slides 6 and 7. There were deductions in the slide workshop for 3D effects, yet those effects are still used on these slides. Reasons to avoid 3D effects are covered in the Data Depiction Design lecture in Week 5. The Moodle logs show that you have not viewed that page either. I recommend you do so and revise the slide deck accordingly.
