Purcomm

• Communication Aid


  Visual support used to make presentations interesting and effective, helps present ideas clearly by highlighting significant information
• Technology-Based Communication Aids


  • Text Messaging
  • Social Media
  • Video Conferencing
  • Email
  • Video Presentation
• Types of Communication Strategies

  • Verbal
  • Nonverbal
  • Visual
• Verbal communication strategies


  Can be broken down into written and oral communication
• Nonverbal communication strategies


  Consist of mostly visual cues, such as body language, facial expressions, physical distance between communicators, or the tone of your voice
• Visual communication strategies


  Can be seen through signs, web pages, and illustrations
• Multimedia


  Content that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, video, and interactive content
• Using Traditional Visual and Audio Media

  • Overhead Transparencies
  • Flip Chart
  • White board/ chalk board
  • Document Camera
  • Video
  • Handouts
• Strategies Using Tools of Technology

  • Keep it simple
  • Emphasize your key ideas
  • Show what you can't say
  • Use close up shots and other images
  • Keep the number of images you present manageable
  • Combine variety with coherence
  • Use large lettering
• Special Features of Computer Based Presentation

  • Custom Navigation
  • Printouts
  • Uploadable
• Multimedia Presentation Tips


  • Go for creativity
  • Colors make it beautiful
  • Use good fonts
  • Images say more than a thousand words
  • Big is beautiful
  • Info Graphics are amazing, use simple info graphics
  • Get inspired
• Things to remember


  • Practice with your Media
  • Consider your room and audience
  • Speak to your audience not your media
• Transparency


  Also known as a view graph, a thin sheet of transparent flexible material, typically cellulose acetate, onto which figures can be drawn
• Video


  An electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media
• Sound Recording & Reproduction

  Electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects
• Multimodal text


  A text that combines two or more semiotic systems
• Modes


  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Listening
  • Speaking
  • Viewing
• Multimodal text examples


  • Picture book
  • Visual images and print text
  • Speech in a film
• The Five Multimodal Text

  • Linguistic
  • Visual
  • Audio
  • Gestural
  • Spatial
• Linguistic


  Comprising aspects such as vocabulary, generic structure and the grammar of oral and written language
• Visual


  Comprising aspects such as color, vectors, and viewpoint in still and moving images
• Audio


  Comprising aspects such as volume, pitch and rhythm of music and sound effects
• Gestural


  Comprising aspects such as movement, speed and stillness in facial expression and body language
• Spatial


  Comprising aspects such as proximity, direction, position of layout and organization of objects in space
• Examples of multimodal texts


  • A picture book
  • A webpage
  • A live ballet performance
• Multimedia text can be delivered via different media or technologies. They may be live, paper, or digital electronic
• Each mode of the five semiotic systems has its own rules and constraints
• Alphabetic texts


  Great at sending a message across, but can also lead to multiple interpretations or ambiguity at times
• Visuals


  Better at giving a sense of size, color, space, etc. When looking at a picture, you do not have to start from left to right or top to bottom. You are free to explore the space as you "read" the image
• Using two or more of these modes of representation together can enrich our understanding of a topic as they can be designed to act as complementary to each other
• Audio description


  Involves the accessibility of the visual images of theater, television, movies, and other art forms for people who are blind, have low vision, or who are otherwise visually impaired
• High context vs. Low context Continuum


  Concept used in communication studies to describe cultures based on the amount of contextual information needed for understanding
• High context


  Rely heavily on implicit communication, shared understanding, and non-verbal cues
• High context cultures


  • Japan, China, and many middle eastern countries. For Japan, silence can convey a lot of meaning, and indirect communication is common
• Low context


  Rely more on explicit communication, with the messages conveyed primarily through words rather than context
• Low context cultures


  • US, Germany, and many Western European countries, in these cultures, directness and clarity in communication are valued
• Communication Aids Examples

  PowerPoint

  Prezi

  Linkedin Slideshare

  Brainshark

  TED.com
• Always Remember this:

  Prior Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance of the Person Putting on the Presentation.