Resources for SNU students

Download:

• Presentation planning sheet
  • Use this worksheet to organize and plan your presentation. Break your presentation down into sections and add more detail to each section as needed.
• Visual Aid styleguide, 2.0
  • This style guide is designed to help you with the layout and and use of text. It covers the usage of type, bullet points, and punctuation.

Online Resources

• www.ted.com/tedtalks/
  • TED:Excellent collection of presenters from a variety of fields presenting on topics that they are passionate about. Scroll dow to the bottom of the page to find the link to Hans Rosling’s excellent data commentary presentation.
• http://www.efcats.org/pages/presentation/oralpresentation.html
  • EFCATS: Successful Oral Presentations:A useful description of the basics skills necessary to give a successful scientific presentation
• http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/
  • Presentation Zen: Excellent and comprehensive collection of comments and ideas about presenting, design, and speaking.
• http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/%7Ewilkins/writing/Supp/dazzle.html
  • The Art of the Oral Scientific Presentation: Another well written and comprehensive resource for scientific presenters.
• www.freerangestock.com
  • Free Range Stock Photos: A good collection of royalty-free photos that can be used for presentations.

Text Resources:

These three books by Edward Tufte were mentioned in the workshop as good resources for learning more about information design and communicating qualitative and quantitative data effectively in a graphic/visual format.

These books are also available through the SNU library

• Tufte, E. (1990). Envisioning information. Cheshire: Graphics Press.
• Tufte, E. (1997). Visual explanations. Cheshire: Graphics Press.
• Tufte, E. (2001). The visual display of quantitative information. Cheshire: Graphics Press.

Tufte also has a website where there is an ongoing discussion about all things related to information design -very informative with lots of examples and descriptions