At Highbrow, we are always hungry for more knowledge. The idea of Highbrow first came to us when we felt like there was a huge knowledge gap between what we were learning from the media and real textbook knowledge. And like most modern people, we found ourselves constantly too busy or distracted to invest the time or money to learn about something new in-depth. So, we made it our goal to solve our own problem by creating Highbrow. Highbrow is the solution to the knowledge gap. With Highbrow, we try to create a simple, easy, and free way for people to gain new knowledge in less time than it takes to drink a cup of coffee. In just 5 minutes, we hope to make you just a little more knowledgeable than you were the day before.

Course: Presentations: Making Slides That Work

Visual aids should “aid,” and they should be “visual.” Obviously. Yet, most presenters dump endless bullet points on screen with very few images. Or they bunch items together (headings, footnotes, bullet points, graphs, templates, thumbnail pictures, etc.) as you would on a poster, and completely bamboozle their audience. Why? The reasons that sane, competent, intelligent people get this so wrong, and what you should do instead, are explained in this course. Visual aids open up a second layer of potent communication with the audience to complement your spoken words. They are an opportunity, not a chore, and you can completely revamp your visual aids and thus, your presentations, overnight.

Course plan

• Lesson 1. Suicide by PowerPoint;
• Lesson 2. Using Slides as Transient Props, Not Reports;
• Lesson 3. Pictures: Attention, Explanation, Memory;
• Lesson 4. Pictures: One at a Time, Full Screen;
• Lesson 5. Gestalt Associations: Visual Inference and Signposting;
• Lesson 6. Videos: Switching the Point of the Attack;
• Lesson 7. Videos: The Surprising Benefits of Doing It Yourself;
• Lesson 8. Graphs: Turning Numbers into Shapes;
• Lesson 9. Graphs: Why They Go Wrong;
• Lesson 10. Working Visual Aids into Your Presentation;
• Quiz.

Format: Starting tomorrow, you will receive a new lesson straight to your inbox every morning for 10 days. Lessons take just 5 minutes to read, and each course is followed by fun, knowledge-testing quiz.

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