Let's talk technical difficulties. It happens. Sometimes in the worst way possible and sometimes it's mild. I had the awkward experience of dealing with it this morning in class. It's frustrating when something you've worked hard on doesn't get conveyed properly. Nevertheless, the presentation must go on. When you run into technical difficulties, you may lose your visual aid or certain pictures or your video clips. If this happens, you need to improvise and adapt. Improvisation and adaption is key to a good presentation because:
1. Practice really does make perfect.
By knowing your content and material, you will still be able to convey your information through your mouth instead of visually. It will be easier for you to adapt and improvise if you know your speech inside and out.
2. Presentations are your visual aids, they are not your speech.
Most people have this misconception that presentations can convey by itself what needs to be said. That is wrong because you are the speaker. You are the one the audience will be focusing on. Presentations are the visual aids that help support what you are saying.
Try to avoid hardware malfunctions by making sure what you needed is present such as
- the updated software to present on the device that is being used (Prezi, Keynote, PowerPoint)
- e-mailing yourself your presentation or keeping it on Google Drive, the iCloud, Dropbox or any type of storage mediums
- bringing a copy on a USB
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