Presentation Strategies, Week 3, 14th August

Lecture week 3 presentation strategies types of presentations Self Contained

• web-page
• CD-ROM
• video

Written

• essay
• paper

Stand and Deliver

• oral presentation

your audience will remember

• 10% of what they see
• 25% of what they see and hear
• 40% of what they see, hear and write down
• 60% of what they experience interactively

make sure sure your presentation contains an introduction, body and conclusion.

In the introduction use attention getters such as rhetorical questions, quotes or a story.

the thesis statement is the purpose of your speech what you hope to achieve.

State your qualifications to reassure your audience that you are a credible source.

preview that main points of the speech.

then use transition words to start with the main body.

remember the introduction sets the tone it should be solid and clear!

in the body include main ideas, distribute time to the most important.

share the load if working in a group.

connective devices are used to flow between ideas.

source citations make you credible.

In the conclusion re-assert and reinforce the thesis

review the main points.

close effectively- strongly, statements that reinforce goals of the thesis persuade the audience the speech was worthwhile.

KISS

keep it simple stupid!

• use audio and visual aids to enhance your speech not over power it.
• rehearse your talk
• always backup your work
• power point is ideal for visual aids(choose subtle background and easily read font. Don't use lots of animations or sounds)
• ask questions that encourage the audience to think for themselves
• make eye contact
• pitch your presentation accordingly
• involve audience

workshop

Construct a power point

use MS Power point

1. choose a slide layout
2. choose background colour from the format menu and click background.
3. write headings and sub-headings
4. followed by the main points
5. write a conclusion
6. and images to enhance presentation by using google and pasting them on to the slide
7. to add animations click slide show, custom animation. Followed by entrance, exit or enhance.
8. keep the animations consistent.

READINGS

ORALS

Oral Communication is different from written communication

Listeners have one chance to hear your talk and can't "re-read" when they get confused. In many situations, they have or will hear several talks on the same day. Being clear is particularly important if the audience can't ask questions during the talk. There are two well-know ways to communicate your points effectively. The first is to K.I.S.S. (keep it simple stupid). Focus on getting one to three key points across. Think about how much you remember from a talk last week. Second, repeat key insights: tell them what you're going to tell them (Forecast), tell them, and tell them what you told them (Summary).

Think about your audience

Most audiences should be addressed in layers: some are experts in your sub-area, some are experts in the general area, and others know little or nothing. Who is most important to you? Can you still leave others with something? For example, pitch the body to experts, but make the forecast and summary accessible to all.

Think about your rhetorical goals

For conference talks, for example, I recommend two rhetorical goals: leave your audience with a clear picture of the gist of your contribution, and make them want to read your paper. Your presentation should not replace your paper, but rather whet the audience appetite for it. Thus, it is commonly useful to allude to information in the paper that can't be covered adequately in the presentation. Below I consider goals for academic interview talks and class presentations. Practice in public

It is hard distilling work down to 20 or 30 minutes.

Prepare

Power point

What is PowerPoint

allows its user to create a slide show presentation all the tools you will need to create a great PowerPoint show are in the toolbar.

Creating slides

Open the PowerPoint program. PowerPoint automatically opens a new presentation. A new title slide will appear for you to work with.

The New window will appear. Click Blank Presentation, and the Slide Layout window appears. It allows you to apply a slide layout. Click in the Title text box. A thick gray border appears around the text box indicating that it is selected. Type a title. Click the Subtitle text box and type a subtitle.

Making changes

use the tool bar to adjust size of font, boxes, colour

Adding images and charts

1. Go to the Insert menu, click Picture, then select Clip Art. 2. The Clip Art window appears on the right side of your screen. 3. Type "cartoons" in the search box and click Go. 4. Click an image to select it. 6. Click the arrow and select Insert. The cartoon image is inserted on your slide.

To insert your own images from a file.

1 Click the Insert menu, point to Picture, and then click From File. The Insert Picture dialog box will appear. 2. In the Look in box, find the drive and folder where the artwork is located. 3. In the File name box, enter the name of the file. Then click the Insert button.

Adding motion

There are two ways to switch to Slide Sorter View: Click the Slide Sorter View button in the lower left corner of the PowerPoint window. Or, you can click the View menu, then click Slide Sorter.

Adding sound

1. In Slide View, select the animated object you want to add the sound effect to by clicking it. 2. Click the Slide Show menu, then click Custom Animation. The Custom Animation task pane will appear. 3. Select the animation effect. Then click the arrow and from the drop-down menu, choose Effect Options. The Effect Options dialog box will appear.

Timing rehearsing

make sure you practice your talk with the slide show finished.