ICT for Development Presentation Assignment

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ICT for DevelopmentPresentation Assignment

• Tim Unwin

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The assignment

• An oral presentation of 10-15 minutes
• On any aspect of ICT4D that is not assessed in
  another way, thus excluding
• Web-site
• Annotated bibliography
• Counts 10 of overall assessment
• Peer assessment is part of the assignment
• Sign up subject topics on list
• Outside my office
• Designed to help with revision
• This is not meant to be a huge task

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Peer assessment

• Value of peer assessment
• Enables you really to appreciate the marking
  criteria
• Encourages student involvement
• Enhances group cohesion
• Treats assessment as part of learning
• Encourages you to evaluate your own performances
  more carefully
• Marking schedule
• Need to fill in recommended grades and give
  reasons
• Can highlight aspects of the grade descriptions

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The Departments criteria

• Presentations should
• Address the topic
• Have clear structure
• Use a range of relevant sources
• Include relevant analysis
• Be clearly audible
• Use visual aids well
• Be appropriately paced and to time
• Have a good eye contact and body language
• Encourage audience involvement

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Presentation skills

• Why presentations?
• You must understand their strengths and
  weaknesses
• Key skills
• Using as many senses as possible to reinforce
  understanding
• The importance of preparation and planning
• Video clip

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Tims media trainingTV News London

• Strengths
• Pleasant clear voice
• Fluent and confident in own agenda
• Thoughtful and knowledgeable
• Lively and enthusiastic
• Smart and businesslike
• Good eye contact with camera in down the line
  TV interview

• Points to Watch
• Needs to pace himself and not speed up
• Needs to retain eyes on the camera so as not to
  distract audience
• Must always put main points at the start of an
  interview
• never work up to big points on radio and TV
• Needs to work on some general messages he can
  always use
• Find concise illustrations

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Why presentations

• Why do people give presentations?
• Strengths
• Inspirational
• Getting across key messages
• Up-to-date
• Use of multimedia
• Learning through all the senses
• Opportunity for interaction
• Weaknesses
• Not good for conveying lots of information
• Many different kinds of presentation!

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Presentation skills (i)

• First impressions
• Try to appear confident
• Be positive
• Never apologise!
• Dress
• Be appropriate for the occasion
• What image do you want to convey?
• What do you feel comfortable in?
• Eye contact
• Very important
• Encourages the audience to feel involved

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Presentation skills (ii)

• Structure of presentation
• Ensure that the audience knows where you are
  going
• They must know what your aims are
• Delivery pace
• Not too fast, not too slow
• Practice makes perfect
• Voice modulation
• Avoid a boring monotonous tone
• Deliberately change style
• Remember that audiences concentration span is
  limited!

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Presentation skills (iii)

• Encourage audience involvement
• Can be simply through use of visual aids
• Or get them to ask questions
• Or ask them questions
• Timing
• Never over-run
• Run through in advance
• Know the material you can cut out if necessary

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Presentation skills (iv)

• Above all be enthusiastic
• It is your presentation
• You know more about it than they do
• Convey your passion for what you are talking
  about
• If you are bored, rest assured that the audience
  will be too!
• The old three-fold aphorism
• Say what you are going to say
• Say it
• Say what you said

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Preparation and planning (i)

• Prepare a presentation well in advance
• Always run through your presentation beforehand -
  to check timing
• Note where you are going to use illustrations
• Know the room where you will be performing
• And how everything works
• Choreograph your performance
• Use two columns content and choreography

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Preparation and planning (ii)

• Incorporate a variety of media
• The spoken word
• The dominant mode
• Computer (PowerPoint) presentation
• Can be useful, but not everyone likes them
• Transparency overheads
• As a general rule, never less than 18 pt.
• Visual slides
• Can really bring things to life, but avoid if
  poor quality
• Handouts
• Essential for loads of information
• Exhibits

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Concluding thoughts

• Dont worry if you are nervous
• A bit of adrenalin is a good thing
• The more you practise the better you will get!
• Developing expertise at this key skill throughout
  the degree programme
• We are all among friends
• Be supportive
• And positively critical