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Title: Giving Presentations


1
Giving Presentations
  • Professor Lawrence A. Rowe
  • as interpreted by James Lin
  • CS160 Spring 99
  • March 29, 1999

2
Outline
  • Creating your presentation
  • Laying out your slides
  • Structuring your presentation
  • Practicing your presentation
  • Presenting
  • Other challenges

3
Creating your presentation
  • Use presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint (most prevalent)
  • Lotus Freelance Graphics
  • Harvard Graphics
  • Concentrate on content
  • Dont spend too much time futzing with colors and
    fonts (especially for presentations in this
    class)
  • But dont make it ugly either

4
Laying out your slides
  • One major concept per slide
  • Use relatively few words on slide
  • Limit to only two levels major and minor points
  • Start major headings with verbbe active!
  • Have only four to five major points
  • Magic rule about 1 minute per slide
  • Some slides (screen shots) may take less time

5
Laying out your slides (contd)
  • If you need more room
  • Reduce space between lines
  • Make fonts smaller
  • Safest bet just use another slide
  • Use sans-serif font for title
  • Use either serif or sans-serif font for body
  • No more than 2 fonts
  • Next example slide in professors style

6
Title (Arial Black, 38 point)
  • Major point (Garamond, 32 point)
  • Minor point (Garamond Italic, 24 point)
  • Another major point
  • Minor point
  • Another minor point

7
Structuring your presentation
  • Title slide
  • Outline slide
  • Important to let audience know where you are
    going
  • Detail slides
  • Sometimes, outline slide between each major
    concept, highlighting the next concept to be
    discussed
  • Summary slide

8
Practicing your presentation
  • Why practice?
  • Make sure you are within time limit
  • Reduce stage fright
  • Decide what you need to say before the real thing
  • Practice two or three times in front of other
    people
  • Get critiques from friends and teammates
  • Time yourself

9
Presenting
  • Speak to the audience, not to the screen
  • Make good eye contact
  • Dont stare in any one direction
  • Look at many people
  • Speak clearlydont mumble

10
Other challenges
  • Live demonstrations
  • Only works if you test your demo 13 milliseconds
    before the real demo.
  • Be careful big risk, but big positive impact if
    it works
  • Using multimedia clips
  • May require special software
  • Make sure software is installed and working well
    before presentation

11
Summary
  • Practice, practice, practice, practice, practice,
    practice, practice, practice, practice, practice,
    practice, practice, practice, practice, practice,
    practice, practice, practice, practice, practice,
    practice, practice, practice, practice, practice,
    practice, practice, practice, practice, practice,
    practice, practice, practice, practice, practice,
    and practice!
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