Week Eight - 21st April

Presentation Strategies

Tutorial Tasks
During the tutorial we were asked to view this website Laura Guertin's "Online resources for how to prepare and deliver a presentation" : http://www.personal.psu.edu/uxg3/blogs/undergraduateresearch/2008/02/online-resources-for-how-to-pr.html and list five top strategies to deliver a top-notch presentation.

Five Top Strategies

1. Speak Clearly and use volume to your advantage
   
2. Speak well paced and don't speak too fast or slow
   
3. Use the right tone to emphasise


4. Repetition on important words


5. Give eye contact to your audience
   

We were then asked to construct a PowerPoint presentation on our ideas on how to give a low impact presentation.

Click to enlarge screen shots of presentation

Lecture
During the lecture we learnt the following important points when presenting a PowerPoint:

• Do not overcrowd your slides and only dot point the most important key words
• Don't write out your whole speech and use complementary colours
• Keep animations simple and don't over use effects
• Use clear fonts and remember to use spell check
• Be specific and have a certain structure - Use Subtitles / titles
• Engage your audience and make sure you rehearse beforehand
• Use eye-contact and don't directly read off the slides
• Don't have anything too distracting!

You also have to make sure that during presentations you are:

• Engaging
• Using compelling data
• Using relevant information
• Creating an impact on the viewers

Resource - PowerPoint Tutorial
We had to view the PowerPoint tutorial resource in case you didn't already know how to use PowerPoint and it gave you a step by step guide on how to use PowerPoint. It would be very useful for beginners and children, for their first time learning how to use it.