Tips+for+Visual+Aids

Use a poster to highlight the key points of your visuals aid speech topics. When you talk about a //country//, //city//, a very expensive //drawing//, or your //home// or //automobile// etc. you can show a picture printed on a poster. 1. Use thick, stiff paper for your posters. 2. Hold them in a visual aid holder.
 * Helpful Tips for Using Visual Aids in a Speech**
 * POSTERS AS VISUAL AID SPEECH TOPICS**

Use slides to illustrate for instance //travel adventures//, //collections//, //historial sights//, Power Point-presentations or the major points of your speech for small or larger groups. 1. Do not forget to darken the room somewhat. 2. Give your listeners enough time to see or read the slices, let's say at least 25 to 30 seconds.
 * SLIDES**

An overhead projector is a very popular instrument to support visual aid speech topics. Use overheads to show for example how a //machine//, //building// or a //plane// has been built, to present a complex //problem// with its solution and benefits, and to illustrate //processes//, //procedures//, and //steps in a sequence//. 1. Write large characters with a big marker. 2. Number your transparencies. 3. Keep the screen in full view of participants. 4. Darken the room a little bit. 5. Talk to the audience, not to the screen. 6. Use a pointer. 7. Do not offer too much data. 8. Use colors and large lettering. Be careful with the color red. Sometimes it is hard to see! 9. Write or print with dark ink. 10. Keep enough white space between the information. They have to be easily seen and read.
 * OVERHEADS/DOCUMENT CAMERA**

Use DVD's and videotapes to emphasize the main points of your speeches about for instance //matches//, //movies//, //journeys//, //hiking trails//, or //instructions//. 1. Tell them why you are playing the DVD or videotape. 2. Tell your listeners what they are going to see. 3. Keep the screen in full view. 4. Darken the room somewhat.
 * DVD's AND VIDEO AS VISUAL AID SPEECH TOPICS**

Use Audiotapes, CD's and MP3's to illustrate your speech about //music//, //plays//, //poems//, //litterature//, or maybe even //famous speeches//. 1. Ensure everybody can hear everything! Ask them if they can hear all. 2. Use amplifying equipment.
 * AUDIOTAPES, CD's AND MP3's AS VISUAL AID SPEECH TOPICS**

Distribute //reports//, //invitations//, //quizes//, //questions//, //games//, //schedules//, //summaries// after or before you explain the visual aid speech topic. 1. Distribute them after your visual aid speech if you want them to act the way you proposed. 2. Distribute the handouts before if you want to guide your audience through the content.
 * HANDOUTS AS VISUAL SPEECH TOPICS**

Use pie charts to present //figures, outcomes of surveys// and //percentages of achievements// in their context. Use bars, timelines or charts to compare //data//, to demonstrate how something has developed over a period of time, to illustrate a series of //steps// or //processes//. Use an organography to provide insight to the //structure// or the //communication// and //command levels// of and organization, process or program. Use a flip chart to note or draw the //main points//, //arguments//, //theories// or //controversies// of your visual aid speech topic for small audiences. Note: All I wrote above about lettering and colors of overheads and slides go for visual aids like graphics and charts too.
 * GRAPHS AND CHARTS**

There is one major rule of thumb for a succesful delivery of visual aid speech topics: A visual aid is not a purpose in itself. Integrate them smartly. They have to support the content of your informative speech. Here are five basic tips for a succesful delivery of your visual aid speech topics: 1. Prepare your visual aid informative speech topics adequately. 2. Practice several times aloud. 3. Check if your electronic tools are running. Have a back-up option in mind. 4. Constantly check if your public can see and understand what you say and present. Every member of the audience must have the possibility to see your visual aids, hold them up as long as needed. 5. Point to parts of your visual aid when you talk about the features. These are enough starting points to brainstorm lots of visual aid speech topics.
 * FIVE TIPS FOR YOUR PRESENTATION**