Reflections on Session One

In the past, as I made a presentation, I used PowerPoint as a Teleprompter. I always wrote a lot of words on each slide and then read my slides word for word. After taking the first lesson of the Module MLIM6323, I understand that “Visuals” can communicate complex ideas with clarity, precision, efficiency and convey the most knowledge in the shortest time in the small space (Tufte, 1983). In the future, when I prepare a PowerPoint for my presentation, I will use the PowerPoint slides as a visual communication aid. For avoiding my audience non-stop taking notes and yawning, I will use much contemporary technology to create powerful visual displays on the PowerPoint, for examples: I will insert pictures, sound, movies, maps, diagrams, drawings, images, icons, symbols, signs and flowchart on my slides. I make sure that I will be able to make my future presentation more interesting and it will enable my audience to remember what I am going to tell them.