Don’t overstep yourself. Instigate a debate that you master.
Slide show and displays.
4 common errors to avoid:
- “Too much animation kills the presentation” and tires the audience.
- Don’t get carried away with special effects, activities, transitions, etc. The more sober (without being austere) your presentation is, the less you distract your audience from the message you are trying to communicate.
- “Illegible texts” to avoid: complex questions, ambiguous answers and wordiness.
- “A terrible racket”: avoid misplaced sound effects, monotonous music, etc.
- “A dead silence”: read your questions before carrying out the voting, announce the start and end of voting, and don’t leave your participants hanging.
The questions.
The number of questions:
- Unless carrying out a veritable examination (certification, safety exam, etc.), one must not overly fatigue or bore the participants.
- For an enlivening activity, 30 questions are the limit. For a knowledge-evaluation activity, 50 questions are the limit.
- For an interactive certification exam, test, etc., you can ask as many as 100 or 120 simple questions. Beyond that, however, you risk losing your audience’s attention and running out of time!
- Question variety.
Vary the types of questions, to avoid tiring your audience, especially in a “fun” or “light-hearted” context. PowerVote allows you to manage the following types of questions:
- Simple questioning (survey).
- Choosing the correct answer.
- Ranking the answers by preference.
- Placing the answers in correct order.
…and to display, via MSGraph pie charts and histograms, the simple results (votes received for each answer) by using:
- The number or percentage of votes for each answer.
- The votes of each participant, by providing the numbers of the answers chosen.
- The numbers of the voting machines or the names of the participants, according to the answer chosen: “”Podiums”" (the participants’ scores), “”Cross Sortings”" (vote distribution according to population), “”Dynamic Summaries”" (several results on the same slide), “”Correct Answer Rates”" (successfully answered questions).
By playing with the types of questions and results, you can capture your audience’s attention and increase the interest of your interactive presentations during the entire duration of your presentation.
