Advanced · Communication and productivity · module 151 of 155
Creating presentations and stories with AI
Build a presentation around one key message, with AI helping with structure and slides, and you guarding the facts and images.
After this lesson
You set the goal, audience and key message, let AI suggest a structure and slides, and check facts, images and timing.
In view · Step by step
A presentation built on one message
Who is listening, and what they need to remember, in one sentence.
One message per slide, figures from your source and images you have the rights to.
Practise out loud, time yourself and check which message sticks.
Part 1 of 3 · Audience and key sentence
Your preference for less movement is on. Choose each part yourself.
Start with audience and key message
A good presentation does not start with slides, but with the question: who is listening, what do they already know, and what should they do or remember afterwards? Sum up your key message in one sentence. AI can help to sharpen that sentence and suggest a structure, for example problem, approach and a question to the audience (lesson 41). Give the audience, the length and the context, otherwise you get a generic presentation that speaks to no one.
Slides with facts from your source
Let AI suggest a title and a few keywords for each slide, based on your source. Check every figure, every date and every quote: a polished slide can contain an invented percentage (lessons 35 and 103). One message per slide and little text work better than crowded slides. Show charts honestly, with source and period (lesson 137). Use images whose rights you know, and label AI images as illustrations (lesson 122).
Practise and ask for feedback
A presentation comes alive through the way you deliver it. Practise out loud and time yourself. You can ask AI to come up with possible questions from the audience, or to make your explanation simpler for a particular target group. Let a colleague look at the presentation: which message sticks afterwards? If it does not match your key sentence, adjust the structure. Where appropriate, mention that you used AI in the preparation (lesson 129).
New practice example
From explanation to a usable result.
A presentation starts with the audience and the key message. AI helps with the structure; you keep watch over facts, images and time.
Fictional practice situationFictional: a neighbourhood committee proposes a play street to the municipal council. The first AI version has twelve slides, with general text about the importance of play and a photo of a street in another city.
View a possible solution
This is how it can be done
Key message: “We are asking for a trial with a play street on Wednesday afternoons in the Lindestraat, from April to June.” Six slides: the request, the street, the residents’ support with signatures, safety, the trial period and the evaluation. The photo of the other city has been replaced with their own photo of the Lindestraat.
Why this works
The slides now follow one concrete request to the municipal council. Their own images and their own figures make the proposal credible.
Make it slightly more difficult
Which question from a council member would you find the hardest? Prepare a two-sentence answer to it.
Extra practice, at your own pace. You do not need to submit anything. This does not count towards an automatic assessment.
Your workplace · learning by doing
Make something. See what changes.
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Read the answer, change one thing, and compare.
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Why this approach works
The slides now follow one concrete request to the municipal council. Their own images and their own figures make the proposal credible.
A step further
Which question from a council member would you find the hardest? Prepare a two-sentence answer to it.
Try & discover · no obligation
Put the steps in a workable order
Move the steps with the arrows. Check whether each step has its necessary input and control.
What does a step depend on?
- Set the audience, length and goal must precede Write the key message in one sentence
- Write the key message in one sentence must precede Have a structure suggested
- Have a structure suggested must precede Make slides with facts from your source
- Make slides with facts from your source must precede Check figures, images and rights
- Check figures, images and rights must precede Practise out loud and ask for feedback
Move a step and then check the sequence. The arrows also work with your keyboard.
This model checks dependencies, not duration, capacity, or actual execution. With multiple agents, the human decision remains a separate step.
This trial works locally with fictitious data and does not count towards your lesson completion. It starts anew with a new lesson or reload.
A prompt to get you started
Help me prepare a ten-minute presentation for the parents’ council of a fictional school. Topic: a trial of a new approach to homework. Audience: parents without a background in education. Key message: [fill in one sentence]. Suggest a structure with at most seven slides, with a title and three keywords per slide. Do not use figures I did not give; mark where I need to fill in my own data. Also come up with three questions parents might ask.
Apply it
A colleague used AI to make a presentation for the executive committee. The slides look professional, but she cannot explain where three figures come from.
Which approach best fits this situation?
- Give the presentation; nobody will ask about the source.
- Find the source of every figure and delete or replace anything you cannot back up, before the presentation is given.
- Add “source: AI” at the bottom of the slides.
With JavaScript, you can check your approach and receive immediate feedback.
Test your insight
AI suggests a slide with the figure “80% less stress among pupils”. You did not give that figure. What do you do?
- Leave it, because it supports your message.
- Remove it, or replace it with a figure from a source you can check yourself.
- Round the figure to “almost all pupils”.
Extra practice
Prepare a short presentation on a topic from your work. First write your key message in one sentence, let AI suggest a structure and check every figure against your source.
Key message: “The new approach to homework gives children more calm on weekdays, and we want to evaluate it together after three months.” Structure: why we are changing something, what changes, a sample week, what we measure and what we ask of parents. AI suggested a slide with “80% less stress”; I had not given that figure, so it was removed. Expected question: “What if my child still needs extra practice?”
