Printed Page 418

You’ve prepared your speech, and you’ve pulled together a collection of visual and audio aids that will support your points in an interesting way. Now you need to decide just how to present them. Should you download all of your audio and video onto a laptop and create a digital slide show, complete with video clips and audio? Or will a simple flip chart and CD player do the job more effectively? In this section, we take a look at various means of incorporating presentation aids—both low- and high-tech—and examine the pros and cons of each.