What is the importance of visual aids during a presentation? How are they most effectively used?

Question

I'm doing a project about visual aids for my business class and I don't feel like they are greatly important. Maybe I'm wrong, tell me what you think from experience.....

Answer 1

--Visual aids are of importance when the fit a given presentation. Those that do not relate are confusing or made unrealistic!

--For instance, what we see in car commercials are many times totally unrelated to the car or quality of the car. --When for instance, you have a SUV sitting on top of a unclimable mountain that already, in my mind looses credence to the car, --it is simply overdone, because the indication is that the car could be driven to the top, and that is usually the context!--IT IS AN OVERSELL.

--If you use , lets say in a video, a weak looking woman or . man in a suit selling building supplies & services ,-- this most likely will not have the impact of someone in work cloths, hardhat, rugged cell phone.

--Another situation, if we are selling garden seeds and just use the picture & name of the product on the package with no background behind it---it does very little to ignite the thought on the buyer- of a beautiful lawn with trees that these seeds will grow.

Answer 2

I would say it depends on your subject. From experience--visual aids are poorly used and seem to be more a presentation on how much the presenter plays with Power Point.

For concrete things, or for great differences in intangible things, though, I think visual aids can be of some value.

Answer 3

in my opinion, a picture is worth 1000 words, and a visual aid is worth 1000 pictures because it's tangible, 3-dimensional, demonstrable, very very handy