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Presentation Tips and Tricks

Presentation Tips and Tricks From RMIT University Library
These resources will help you break the ice on your presentation.
How do I successfully present resources
If this is the first time that you have come across oral presentations This is the place to be! You should start with the ‘Explain it to me’ section, before working through the other tiles.
Effective Oral Presentations
This Ara hand out will help you create effective oral presentations.

These online tools can help

Canva.com
Canva allows you to create good looking slides without any design knowledge.
Prezi.com
Prezi creates visually appealing presentations. You can choose from many templates.
Trello
Trello is a fantastic way to organise your presentations, tasks and projects for either yourself or a group of people. You can plan, collaborate, manage projects, and organise tasks for people all within Trello.

3 Tips for Giving a Killer Class Presentation

Copyright

Remember since you are working in an academic environment, referencing your resources will always be required. Below you can find some tips how to make a presentation that is copyright complaint.

Subject Guides, Research, Images/Media
Learn the basics - it'll be useful for the whole duration of your studies.
Openverse
Browse through over 600 million items that you can reuse in your presentation.

Helpful Resources

From how to plan your presentation through to post production techniques, these lists of resources will help you build your confidence for a winning presentation.

Pixlr
Pixlr is a free easy to use online photo editor and design tools editor. This can also work for videos, and includes overlays and templates.
Lightworks
Lightworks is another free video editing software that is great for tutorials and being user friendly. It has an intuitive drag-and-drop user interface and powerful features like multicam and multi-track video editing, which allows you to edit clips from multiple cameras into a single project. It also enables you to share projects and collaborate with other users while editing videos in real time.
OpenShot
OpenShot is an open source free video editing sopftware, that is minimalist in its features, which can be great for newbies and time savers - as it has a 'drag and drop' layer based interface.
Its minimalist drag-and-drop layer-based interface is easy to use, even for newbies, and you can stack an unlimited number of layers in your video, such as soundtracks, overlapping videos, or custom images. It also includes title card templates.

How to Make Your Presentation Right, Tight and of Value by Jerry Weissman
ISBN: 9780132696319
Publication Date: 2011
PowerPoint 2013 Bible by Faithe Wempen (Editor)
ISBN: 111868009X
Publication Date: 2013-03-18

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One-Button Studio: Present Like a Pro

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