{"id":526,"date":"2010-01-17T17:02:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T16:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=526"},"modified":"2010-01-17T17:02:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T16:02:55","slug":"index-card-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/index-card-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Index card notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/skillsforstudy\/images\/index-cards.jpg\" alt=\"Index Cards\"  align=\"left\"><br \/>\nI read a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simswyeth.com\/blog\/20090923-when-public-speaking-deep-six-the-3-x-5s\/\">blog<\/a> recently which suggested that putting the content of your presentation on 3-by-5 Index Cards wasn&#8217;t such a good idea.  I don&#8217;t think I agree with the logic.  (I should add, before I go on, that I like the blog in general &#8211; and in fact I wouldn&#8217;t have read-it-to-disagree-with-it if I didn&#8217;t read it fairly often because I <strong>like<\/strong> it! :)  )<\/p>\n<p>The main reason for ditching 3-by-5s, it seemed, was that they force you to write small and can&#8217;t hold much text, so you&#8217;re constantly changing cards.  The replacement idea was to use a large, single piece of card on the lectern.<\/p>\n<p>My take on it is this&#8230;..?  Who said anything about putting your <em>script<\/em> on 3-by-5s?!?!  They&#8217;re for notes and occasional keywords, not a script.  No one should use a script.  Complaining that you can&#8217;t get your script on Index Cards is a bit of an Aunty Sally, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Besides, putting coloured (good, good idea!) notes onto a large sheet of card ties you to the lectern, which pretty much everyone agrees isn&#8217;t a good thing.  What&#8217;s more, there&#8217;s a bit of me that things that if you can reduce your presentation enough to get it onto a single sheet of card in coloured not form, you can get it down to something that will fit on a set of 3-by-5 Index Cards!  :)<\/p>\n<p>Or do they &#8211; have I missed something significant in the way presentations should be made? <\/p>\n<p>Two word of warning.  One &#8211; if you&#8217;re going to use Index Cards to hold your notes, check that they&#8217;re small enough to be comfortably held in your hand so you can gesture with them without undue inhibition.  Index Cards come in a range of sizes and if your hand suits smaller cards (or bigger!!) then use smaller cards (or bigger!!).  Two &#8211; when you&#8217;ve got your Index Cards set up, number them and connect them via a Treasury Tag in a corner: that way if you drop them you won&#8217;t be flustered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a blog recently which suggested that putting the content of your presentation on 3-by-5 Index Cards wasn&#8217;t such a good idea. I don&#8217;t think I agree with the logic. (I should add, before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentation-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}