General
This is any visual tool used to help a speaker get a general point across to an audience.
What are visual aids?
This visual aid helps convey location.
What is a map?
This concept is essentially the attitude a speaker may try to convey to the audience.
What is tone?
Doing this would make the audience focus their attention too heavily on this, and would take away the audience's attention from the speaker.
Hint: It involves using too many of something.
What is using too many words on a slide?
3x+7=19
Solve for x.
X=4
What is clarifying information?
I would use this visual aid to show and breakdown multiple parts of a whole, for example, a body.
What is a diagram?
The audience cannot do this while also properly absorbing the information that the speaker is giving.
What is reading large chunks of words.
Not using these would make information on a screen look disorganized and hurt the audiences overall understanding of a topic.
What are bullet points?
This is the highest grossing movie of all time.
What is Avatar?
This is something that visual aids aim to help an audience with.
Hint: Helps the audience in the future.
What is retention and recall?
What are decision trees?
This is the best amount of lines on the screen that a speaker should show at any given moment.
What are 7 lines?
True or false: Visual aids can aid in disengaging and make the audience misunderstand a speakers point if used incorrectly.
What is true?
This is the amount of time it takes for light from the sun to reach Earth.
What is 8 minutes?
This category of visual aids is beneficial not only for the audience, but for the speaker as well, due to its simplicity and low cost.
What are low-tech visual aids?
This type of visual aid helps display quantitative data to the audience.
What are graphs?
This is the most optimal font size to have so an audience can read what is on screen.
What is size 22 font?
When showing the steps of a process, NOT using this visual aid would hurt the audience's understanding of a topic.
What is a sequence-of-steps chart?
This vehicle (make and model) has sold the most units over any other car in America.
What is the Ford F-series?
This visual aid helps provide even more information on a topic than the speaker can, and can be taken by the audience and used as future reference.
What is a handout?
This visual aid involves a sequence of papers set up by the speaker, in which the pages can be easily manipulated to reveal more information.
What is a flip chart?
This is the percentage of human learning that occurs visually.
What is 83%?
What are visual aids?
This is the year that the Star-Spangled Banner was written.
What is 1814?