How can Visual Aids be supportive?      

I hope this journey of learning about visual aids was informative. We have discussed the pros and cons of the many popular visual aids out in society today. However, one last question remains of how visual aids are overly all supportive? For one, I believe they are basically tools used to help a presenter explain himself; it helps an individual to clarify the meaning behind some content information being presented. Visual Aids help create interest and attraction among the audience. They can also help an individual’s credibility, as many prefer proof of their explanations. Lastly, visual aids can be passed around in presentations among an audience, which the audience would truly appreciate. The audience would appreciate this because, props and handouts not only create attraction but also a chance to check and improve self-understanding.   

My top three among the Listed 

Above, we have discussed how visual aids were overly all supportive, but what are the top three choices among the six visual aids listed? Well, coming in number three is handouts, I chose handouts for third spot, because they are a great way of helping individuals to follow along or catch up in a presentation. Handouts are great because they provide facts, pictures and photos. My Second top choice is multimedia slides, I like multimedia slides because unlike transparencies you can be creative with your design and output. Multimedia slides provides facts, pictures, photos, and web links, more importantly people from far back in an audience could see the presentation projected on a large enough screen. However, my number one choice has to be videos; I chose videos as number one because, majority of the people in our society today have become visual learners. People in our society, increasingly watch YouTube tutorials to help fix problems. In my opinion, videos are by far the most powerful visual aid out there.

Are there any additional Visual Aids available?   

Throughout these blog entries we have discussed many of the visual aids used out there, but are there any visual aids left over which we have still not discussed yet? And if there are, what are their benefits? There is one visual aid left which we have not clarified yet; this visual aid is called audio tapes. However, audio tapes are actually referred to as an audio visual aid. Although one might be thrown off by such a name since the aid is supposed to be visual, audio tapes can be used in combination with other visual aids to help improve the learning experience. The pros of audio tapes are that they are effective for specialist type roles, and they also require reasonable broadcast equipment (Get Ahead, 2000-2005, para.11). The cons for audio tapes are that they might require specialist type recording skills and they it could really consume time making the recording (Get Ahead, 2000-2005, para.11).                                .

REFERENCES

1.      Get Ahead. (2000-2005). Advantages and disadvantages of visual aids. Retrieved from http://www.getahead.uk.com/gwpr07-advantages-of-visual-aids.htm