Seminar Presentation

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Seminar Presentation

• Preparing
• Presenting

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Presenting

• Background
• Purpose know why
• Audience know who
• Location and Equipment see/try it out

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Preparing

• Content Delivery
• Content what you will tell the audience
• PLUS
• Delivery how they will best
• - understand
• - remember

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Preparing Content

• Do not over-estimate
• Do not speed up, or apologise for lack of time
• Be prepared to cut during delivery
• Introduction and Conclusion are of
  disproportionate importance

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Preparing content

• Depending upon purpose and audience...
• - formal to informal?
• - example to principle?
• - narrative/anecdote/human interest
• Plus usual features of relevance coherence

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Preparing content

• Structure
• Introduction context preview
• Main discussion body
• Conclusion

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Delivery 3 key strategies

• Never present a seminar with talk alone
• Never read your presentation
• use your slides/OHTs as prompts
• Rehearse aloud

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Delivery variety

• 1) Speaking
• 2) Body
• 3) Visuals
• 4) Activities

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Delivery (1) Speaking

• Speak to the audience, not the screen
• Get feedback on volume speed (NB)
• ditto for voice quality pitch
• Use variety
• Use pauses
• Breathe

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Delivery (2) Body

• Move - lectern?
• Move - hands/arms?
• Face smile?
• Posture open/closed?
• Be yourself, but sometimes yourself

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Delivery (3) Visuals

• Pictures
• Tables, graphs careful
• Whiteboard/Document Projector/OHP
• PowerPoint
• - PPt is not the content, it is the vehicle
• - summarises/illustrates main points
• back-up

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Delivery (4) Activities

• for audience
• - spontaneous or reflective? eg....
• - open or closed questions? eg....
• - completed solo or in pairs?
• - feed back to presenter or not?

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Delivery summarised

• I hear and I forget
• I see and I remember
• I do and I learn.
• Prepare and practise
• Always use visuals
• Be yourself
• Breathe

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PART 2 questions from the floor

• Are these really questions? Or comment?
• Temptation (1) - making your answer too long
• Temptation (2) - responding with a different
  point which you had omitted earlier
• Temptation (3) - perceiving a question as an
  attack

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Good questions...

• thank you
• b) repeat/paraphrase the question
• c) respond briefly
• d) dont worry if the questioner does not appear
  to respond

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Tricky questions...

• a) thank you
• b) repeat/paraphrase the question
• c) ask questioner to clarify ....
• d) Thats an interesting comment/point... I
  would like to consider it more fully later.
• e) Thats an interesting point... Would anyone
  like to comment?

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Handling questions

• If several people are trying to ask a question at
  the same time ....?
• If a questioner is taking too long ....?

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ELSSA Centre

• Law Drop-in Workshops
• Ross Forman 2007