00:00 If you're looking for a simple technique to get your audience to focus on you, and you're giving a PowerPoint, try this option. 00:07 Hit the letter B on your laptop. 00:10 During your PowerPoint presentation, it will black out the screen, hitting any key whatsoever brings it back to life. 00:18 Same screen you were on. 00:19 So if you've just finished going through a PowerPoint slide, and now you're talking about something else, but you're not ready for the next slide, you can simply hit the letter B blacks out the screen. 00:30 People see nothing. 00:32 You don't have to stop, turn a computer on or off. 00:34 You can also hit the key w w will white out the screen. 00:39 I prefer black because it's less distracting. 00:41 If all of a sudden it's a bright white screen, it can still attract eye attention there. But if you can hit the letter B and then any key whatsoever, the space bar, the return bar, any bar whatsoever will bring it back. 00:54 This way your audience isn't distracted, and you can get people to focus on one thing at a time. 01:00 If you're speaking, don't give them anything to look at. 01:03 If you want them to look at stuff on your screen, stop talking.
The lecture PowerPoint Presentation: Technical Recommendations by TJ Walker is from the course PowerPoint Presentations in Public Speaking (EN).
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