{"id":3014,"date":"2018-08-10T08:20:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T14:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2018-08-10T08:20:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T14:20:14","slug":"resource-of-the-week-compass-on-how-to-build-better-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/2018\/08\/10\/resource-of-the-week-compass-on-how-to-build-better-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource of the Week: COMPASS on &#8220;How to Build Better Presentations&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.compassscicomm.org\/single-post\/2018\/05\/21\/How-To-Build-Better-Presentations\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3015 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/06\/Capture-5-300x201.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/06\/Capture-5-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/06\/Capture-5-1024x686.png 1024w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/06\/Capture-5-768x514.png 768w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/06\/Capture-5.png 1090w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image: screenshot from the article<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.compassscicomm.org\">COMPASS<\/a>\u2018s mission is: \u201cto help scientists effectively share their knowledge in the public discourse and decision-making. We provide practical support for scientists to engage without compromising the accuracy of their science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the trainings they offer, they also suggest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.compassscicomm.org\/tools-resources\">resources<\/a>, such as this list of suggestions on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.compassscicomm.org\/single-post\/2018\/05\/21\/How-To-Build-Better-Presentations\">How To: Build Better Presentations<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As with any #scicomm, there are a range of opinions, and when you run into conflicting advice, it\u2019s worth having a look at a broad array of sources to make a decision. The COMPASS better presentations post we linked to above (in this post), suggests using dark backgrounds. Note that we posted last week about not using light text on dark backgrounds, in order to ensure your web pages and presentations are visually accessible to all audience members. We recommend you refresh on that if you\u2019re weighing what kind of backgrounds to use for your next web project or presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: screenshot from the article COMPASS\u2018s mission is: \u201cto help scientists effectively share their knowledge in the public discourse and decision-making. We provide practical support for scientists to engage without compromising the accuracy of their science.\u201d In addition to the trainings they offer, they also suggest resources, such as this list of suggestions on \u201cHow To: Build Better Presentations.\u201d As&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5470,"featured_media":3015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15,16],"tags":[108,113,114,115,120],"class_list":["post-3014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-blog-scicomm-by-scientists","category-resource-of-the-week","category-resources","tag-presentation-tips","tag-resource","tag-resource-of-the-week","tag-resources-2","tag-scicomm-by-scientists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}