Presentation Development and Improving Presentation Skills Using iFlipTips

Good presentation skills are crucial. We use them in our careers and our personal lives, and utilize these skills even when we might not realize it. Developing your onsite and online (webinar) presentation skills can have a positive impact on many different areas of your life and, for that reason; it’s beneficial to improve your presentation skills, even if public speaking isn’t a key part of your job role right now.

iFlipTips is a study and training app for iPad and iPhone that revolutionizes the way we deliver and absorb information. As well as being an invaluable tool for students of all subjects, iFlipTips can also help you when you’re teaching yourself new skills. The app avoids the traditional text-based learning style, and instead focuses on providing you with a variety of tools to help you create flashcards that increase your learning speed and help you retain and recall more information in less time.

The iFlipTips app is divided into two sections: iTips-Ideas cards and iFlipCards. Each card contains four different formats: text, image, audio, and video, so you can record and store information using different mediums. When studying and improving your presentation skills, you can use these different formats to learn new skills more efficiently.

If you’re working to improve your presentation skills, the best place to start is to evaluate where you are at the moment. iFlipTips helps you do this, as you can record yourself giving a staged or real presentation using the audio and video functions. Doing this can help you identify and improve aspects of your presentation, such as your body language and tone of voice.

The ability to record videos and audio clips means you can also capture snippets of public speakers and presenters you admire, and use the recordings to compare their style to your own practice sessions. Watching other successful public speakers, you can identify what you enjoy about their delivery, and attempt to reproduce that in your own presentations.

As you develop your skills, recording yourself can also help you prepare for live public speaking engagements. Thorough preparation helps you gain confidence in your ability to give an engaging and interesting presentation. Practice is the key to success, and using the iFlipTips video function, you can simulate what it feels like to have a live audience.

The text function can help you make key notes about presenting skills, for example that you should never start with an apology unless you’ve made an error, and that you should always credit the source of quotes you use. By saving these “notes” in ordered folders, you can easily refer back to them later to remind yourself of key messages and tips.

As well as helping you improve your presentation skills, you can also use iFlipTips to keep you on track during presentations. Use iTips-Ideas cards to outline the structure of your presentation, and record key quotes and facts you want to remember in the text box. If you want to, you can also share your notes with others via email, Facebook or Twitter directly through the app.

If you plan to include a question and answer session at the end of a presentation, the iFlipCards can help you prepare. Create a separate “question” card for each question you anticipate being asked, and then create an ideal response on the “answer” card. Avoid memory blanks and feelings of panic, and instead enjoy confidence in knowing that you’ve prepared as thoroughly as you can.

iFlipTips  newest additions is called iFlipTipsPro and has a iFlipTips Calendar and multicolor notepads/iDoodleGrams called iFlipPads are perfect ways to adhere to a schedule and manipulate pictures and images for a variety of note uses.  The ideas tool is useful for organizing and tracking notes, and other academic related activities. Use it to organize contacts of people you meet during your study or research, reminders or just creative drawings which can be shared via Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter or email.

 

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Physical Therapy Study Using iFlipTips

Physical Therapy is a competitive field, and you have to prove yourself to win a place on a course, let alone succeed in a career in this field. When the stakes are high, you need to find a way to raise your game and ensure you are learning as efficiently and thoroughly as you can. iFlipTips is a new note-taking app that helps you break large topics down into convenient bite-sized pieces, making them easy to remember and, more importantly, fun to study.

iFlipTips uses a combination of text notes, audio recordings, video and images to help you achieve faster recall and increased retention, while cutting down the amount of time you have to spend studying. The app is divided into two sections, which aid your learning in different ways.

 

iTips-Ideas cards help you build your knowledge and understanding of a subject. Once you’re ready to test what you know, you can create a set of iFlipCards, which contain a ‘question’ side, and an ‘answer’ side. This can help you identify gaps in your knowledge before you hand in an assignment or take an exam, and is a valuable tool in a competitive environment. The combination of iTips-Ideas cards and iFlipCards can help you prepare for important events like the National Physical Therapy Examination. (

 

 

Both iTips-Ideas cards and iFlipCards allow you to make notes using text, images, audio and video. Not only does this give you faster recall of information, but it means the app also caters for different learning styles. Whether you find it easiest to learn by reading, watching, doing or hearing, the iFlipTips app gives you the opportunity to explore which learning style suits you best, and each different medium can be used for different purposes.

The integrated camera function can be helpful for taking pictures of anatomy diagrams, or nutrition charts. You can use the audio recorder to record lectures, ensuring you don’t miss out on any valuable information. When you start doing clinical internships, the video function could be useful to help you see how you interact with patients, although you will need to check the clinic’s confidentiality policy before recording your sessions.

Physical Therapy is a dense, complex subject, and you can use the folder system to organize your notes into different categories. You might want to create folders based on major areas of Physical Therapy, such as anatomy, pharmacology, and nutrition. You can also create separate folders for continuing professional development notes, making a new folder for each CPD course you take.

Even when you graduate, iFlipTips can still help you in your developing your career. Creating a separate folder for each patient, you can create a new ‘flashcard’ per visit, documenting symptoms and treatment using any of the four mediums that are appropriate. Filing patient notes in this manner means you can access them easily at a later date, and keep a simple yet effective record of the patient’s ailments and treatment.