Online lectures, delivered using Live Streaming Video combined with PowerPoint slides & other Multimedia materials, dramatically enhance the way you present your educational courses.
Maybe you would like to allow your course participants to access courses whenever it’s most convenient for them – e.g. evenings or weekends – well, you can now use the very same course that you broadcast live and have it available online as On-demand courses, complete with video, multimedia presentations, etc.
You’re probably already familiar with some PowerPoint-based e-Learning techniques – live webcasting takes this a few steps further!
When you combine live video of the presenter alongside their PowerPoint materials in the same presentation, you amplify the power of online instruction 10 times over!
Here are some tips for using PowerPoint effectively during Webcasting:
- KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid! Don’t overdo it with reams of text on your slides. Don’t confuse PowerPoint with a print document like Word!
- The content on your slides should complement your spoken presentation, not duplicate it. Speak extemporaneously and keep it casual. Have a conversation with your audience – reading the text off your slides makes you look unprofessional – and BORING!
- Keep bullet points & text to a minimum – images and charts tell a more powerful story. Remember the old adage – a picture is worth a thousand words!
- Don’t use every transition or animation in PowerPoint. Use just one transition throughout your presentation or you will have your audience trying to guess the next…