CREATIVE PRESENTATIONS ON ZOOM

Using Zoom has become something we’ve all got used to during the COVID pandemic. Indeed statistics suggest Zoom is now the go-to video conferencing provider.

• As of April 2020, Zoom surpassed 300 million daily Zoom meeting participants multiplying 30 times in four months (The Verge.)

• Meeting minutes exceeded 2 trillion in April 2020 (Cloud Wars)

• With an increase of 21% compared to the end of 2020, Zoom reached 12.92 million monthly users in February 2020 (CNBC)

• As of March 22, daily active users of Zoom up 378% from a year earlier.

• Daily active users of Zoom in the UK reached a peak of over 770 thousand in mid May 2020 (Statista.)

Given these statistics, how do we make the most of this growing part of our daily lives. These pages explore ways we can be creative in presenting on Zoom. They are not exhaustive, they won’t make your presentation like Netflix and they don’t overcome the barrier that screens are not as good as human contact.

However, we hope they will get your creative juices going and help you present in different ways via Zoom.

Andy mentioned during the video the work of the fantastic David JP Phillips. You can find his ‘Death by Powerpoint Presentation’ here.

Andy also mentioned Zoom’s Lighting Guide which you can find here.

Programmes and tools to help you

During the session we suggested a wealth of different tools and programmes you can experiment with. Why not try the following.

Presentations

• Prezi

• SlideDog

• Visme

Digital Whiteboards

• Microsoft Whiteboard

• Miro

Group Mindmapping

• LucidChart

• Mindmaster

Polling and Questions

• Poll Everywhere

• Slido