Studying with Technology Presentation Skills

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Studying with Technology Presentation Skills

• By
• Ian Cole
• Lecturer in Information Communication Technology

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Before we start.

• Please turn off your
• mobile phone

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Presentation Skills
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Session Overview

• Principles of Presentation Skills.

• Tell you audience a little bit about yourself and
  what you are going to talk about

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Why When do we Present?

• Giving a talk
• Explain a report.
• Patient Review.
• Briefing a group.
• Conducting training.
• Obtaining a job.

• Team leading.
• Problem solving.
• Running a meeting.
• Using the phone.
• Making a speech.
• Interviews.

The only way to discover the limits of the
possible is to go beyond them to the
impossible Arthur C Clark
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Principles of Presenting

• Decide on presentation style.
• Identify suitable presentation aids.
• If youre worrying about the technology its in
  the way.
• Be Yourself
• Dress appropriately for the presentation.
• Make yourself heard.
• Keep what you say simple.
• Expect to be nervous
• Take deep breaths.
• Question Yourself
• Before blaming the audience.

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Principles of Presenting

• Preparation
• Be organised and know what your going to say.
• Watch out for speling misstakes errors on
  presentation material
• Watch your use of jargon.
• Rehearse time the presentation.
• Research the audience.
• Who am I talking to.
• Judge audience knowledge.
• Audience expectations.
• Numbers attending.
• Who talks before me.

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Principles of Presenting

• Tell em what youre going to tell em
• Tell em
• Tell em what youve told em
• Or
• think of your presentation as a story with a
  beginning, a middle an end.

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Common Obstacles

• Visual Aids
• Written Notes
• Body Language
• Waffle
• Dont!!! Keep it simple and clear.
• The Room
• Equipment
• The Audience

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Presentation Equipment

• Black/White Boards.
• Flipchart (paper).
• Overhead projector (OHP).
• Slide projector.
• Television, Video DVD players.
• Digital Projection (for use with a computer or
  video).
• Digital / Active Whiteboards.

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PowerPoint Tips (Cleland, 2001 Holzl, 1997)
A mix of sizes, bullets colours

• Use a font that is readable (this is Tahoma).
• Consider the size of the room when choosing font
  size.
• More then 200 seats
• Headings 42 point Main text 36 point.
• Less then 200 seats
• Headings 36 point Main text 28 point.
• Less then 50 seats
• Headings 32 point Main text 24 point.
• FOR MAXIMUM EFFECT CHOOSE PREDOMINANTLY LOWER
  CASE LETTERS.

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PowerPoint Tips (Cleland, 2001 Holzl, 1997)
Too much text with a mix of fonts
Arial pt24

• Preview the effect of your chosen colours
• Be consistent have no more than 4 regions of
  colour
• Text colour should complement and be
  distinguishable from
• background colour
• Bright colors project energy.
• Pastels are more delicate than bright colors.
• Reds, oranges are "hot".
• Blues, greens are "cool".
• Choose pictures and clipart that enhance your
  message.
• Know what version of Powerpoint is on the machine
  where you will be doing the presentation.
• Always have a back-up transparencies, handouts,
  web-site.
• Practice! Practice! Practice.

Tahoma pt20
Book Antiqua pt24
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Presentation Skills Check List

• Seek feedback on presentations
• To present better you have to
• Believe you can do it.
• Want to make it happen.
• Work at it.
• Keep developing your presentations.
• Look at what works and what doesnt.
• Improve through training, reading and presenting.
• Obtain support.

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Presentation Delivery

• Speak clearly. Don't shout or whisper - judge the
  acoustics of the room.
• Don't rush, or talk deliberately slowly. Be
  natural - although not conversational.
• Deliberately pause at key points - this has the
  effect of emphasising the importance of a
  particular point you are making.
• Avoid jokes - always disastrous unless you are a
  natural expert  
• To make the presentation interesting, change your
  delivery, but not to obviously, eg speed, pitch
  of voice
• Use your hands to emphasise points but don't
  indulge in to much hand waving. People can, over
  time, develop irritating habits. Ask colleagues
  occasionally what they think of your style.
• Look at the audience as much as possible, but
  don't fix on an individual - it can be
  intimidating. Pitch your presentation towards the
  back of the audience, especially in larger rooms.
  
• Don't face the display screen behind you and talk
  to it.
• Other annoying habits include
• Standing in a position where you obscure the
  screen. In fact, positively check for anyone in
  the audience who may be disadvantaged and try to
  accommodate them.
• Muttering over a transparency on the OHP
  projector plate an not realising that you are
  blocking the projection of the image. It is
  preferable to point to the screen than the foil
  on the OHP (apart from the fact that you will
  probably dazzle yourself with the brightness of
  the projector)
• Avoid moving about too much. Pacing up and down
  can unnerve the audience, although some animation
  is desirable.
• Keep an eye on the audience's body language. Know
  when to stop and also when to cut out a piece of
  the presentation.
• http//lorien.ncl.ac.uk/ming/dept/Tips/present/com
  ms.htm

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Make it Interesting

• I do not object to people looking at their
  watches when I am speaking but I strongly object
  when they start shaking them to make certain they
  are still going
• Lord Birkett.

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PowerPoint

• Brief notes, bullet talking points.
• Make presentations available on-line
• What are the advantages of using PowerPoint?
• What are the disadvantages?
• https//cit.jmu.edu/ddls/resources/effectiveppt.as
  p

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Homework

• Create a PowerPoint Presentation as per workbook
  (deadline 25th Nov 08).
• You will need to deliver a 10 minute presentation
  about a piece of technology on 9th Dec
• Decide the topic of your presentation by next
  week.