Category: Digital Presentation

Digital Presentation or Expository Tips By: Clare Cey

Posted on by Heather Neumann

Public speaking is hard. Success requires a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, but it is an incredible opportunity to share what’s important to you. The idea of writing a platform speech, let alone a speech using visual aides, such as Digital Presentation or Expository can often feel like an impossible task. Memorizing 10 minutes of words and a powerpoint presentation? Forget it! For many, the draw to a digital presentation is the desire to play with animations, fonts, colors, and cool slide transitions for hours. With a digital presentation (DP) you can just go to town with all of your neon, cursive fonts, and spinning slides, right? Not so, my friend! Today, I’d like to share some of the most helpful things I learned in creating and giving my DP, to help you as you create and present yours…

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Exploring Fonts for a Digital Presentation

Posted on by Heather Neumann
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Speech and Debate Leagues have decided to adapt with the world of technology. Speech categories such as Expository, Power Point, or Digital Presentation are among the few events that allow for visual enhancement of the speech, specifically through the use of slides. And although this is the direction the world is turning, it comes with a world of confusion, decisions, and a learning curve. The images, and more importantly, the fonts you choose is another aspect of communication. These decisions are crucial to conveying your message! Today, we will specifically addressing one of the most important aspects of your slides- the font...

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Try a New Speech Category

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I love new Speech categories! The opportunity to try something new or experience something some people might not!? You don't need to be the adventurous type… just be willing to try! Don't let someone tell you, you are a debater or limited prep-type. You define who you are. Give these new speech categories a whirl. This is your time to set the bar. Be the example! Don't sit back and just watch someone else experience something you can… you be the pioneer… ready, set, GO! Let's take a look at a few of the new possibilities this season...

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Going Digital AND Persuasive Speaking – for Speech and Beyond

Posted on by Heather Neumann

This week starts our series of Workshop Wednesdays!! An opportunity for you to grow and dig deeper into some of speech and debate categories. One of our fabulous coaches, Isabelle Clausen, will kick our week off with Digital Design – a great overview of how to make your speeches digital for Digital Presentation or Expository. Next, she will explore Persuasive Speaking. Not quite sure you want to sign up? Isabelle will give you the reasons to try these Platform Speech Categories…

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