Presentation Skills and Learning

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Staging a Noteworthy
Presentation
Pennsylvania Staff Development CouncilFall
Institute October 19, 2006
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Framing Your Workshop
What is the content?
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Is the agenda workable?
Agenda Welcome Activity 1 Activity
2 Break Activity 3
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What activities are appropriate?
How should they be organized?
How much time will each activity require?
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Is there a balance of processing, transitions,
and interactions?
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Remember! We are modeling the model!
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Honing Your Skills

• Expand range of verbal / nonverbal skills
• Design effective visuals
• Understand your adult learners better
• Plan for your adult learners effectively

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Four Levels of Learning

• Affirming what you already know and do
• Learning a skill for immediate implementation
• Understanding a new skill and the need for
  practice before implementation
• Appreciating what is humanly possible

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Workshop Logistics

• Facilities
• Fire Exits
• Rest Rooms
• Refreshments
• Breaks
• Cell Phones
• Manner Mode!
• Signals
• Visual
• Auditory

Modeling the Model
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Use a Countdown Timer
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Todays Purpose Polishing your skills

• To enhance your credibility as a facilitator
• To anticipate, monitor, and adjust throughout the
  presentation
• To get psychological permission to be in charge
  and to deal with issues

Todays Purpose
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Introductions

• Name and job with students
• A personal or professional dream
• Talk with your partner.
• Partner introduces you to the whole group.
• Listen for commonalities andconnections.

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Processing Partners

• Find one partner for each slot.
• Find partners who are not at your table.
• Find different partners for each slot.
• Adult Learning ____________________
• Design Principles___________________
• Facilitation Skills___________________

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Meet with your Design Principles Partner.

• Generate a statement about the similarities and
  differences in this group.
• Be prepared to share your statement with the
  entire group.

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Lets examine how you

• Focus energy
• Focus attention
• Manage transitions

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Meet with your Adult Learning partner and share
something you do to

• Focus attention
• Focus energy
• Manage transitions

Something I like to do
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Credible Voice Purpose

• Attention shifting
• Direction giving
• Amplifying important content

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Credible Voice Elements

• Narrow range of modulation
• Head still
• Lean slightly back
• Chin tilt for relationship
• Drop chin at end

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Approachable Voice Purpose

• Relationship
• Creating psychological safety
• Paraphrasing
• Inquiring
• Stimulating responses

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Approachable Voice Elements

• Wider range of modulation
• Eye contact
• Head bounce
• Lean forward

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Choosing your Voice
Credible or Approachable
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As your mother once told you

• Its not what you say its how you say it!

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How Do You Say It?

• Kinesthetic
• Movement and Body Language
• Pauses and Stillness
• Verbal
• Information Delivery
• Visual
• Combination of images with actions

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Putting the 3 Together
Visual
Verbal
Kinesthetic
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Meet with your Facilitation Skills partner and
share something you want to

• Remember
• Do differently
• Share with a colleague

Something I will
Modeling the Model
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We Learn

• 10 of what we read
• 20 of what we hear
• 30 of what we see
• 50 of what we see and hear
• 70 of what we discuss
• 80 of what we experience
• 95 of what we teach
• -William Glasser

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We Learn

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10 of what we read
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20 of what we hear
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30 of what we see
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50 of what we see and hear
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70 of what we discuss
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80 of what we experience
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95 of what we teach
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Visual Literacy

• How doyou
• see the world?

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A Closer Look at Principles of Design

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Many of the examples used in this presentation
come from this wonderful book by Robin Williams!
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Basic Design Principles

• Contrast
• Repetition
• Alignment
• Proximity

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Contrasting Typography

• Serif Letters have feet
• Easier to read best for body text
• e.g. Times and Palatino
• Sans Serif No feet at the end
• Use for titles, subtitles, and headings
• e.g. Arial, Comic Sans, Tahoma

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Contrasting CASES

• CAPITAL LETTERS
• Upper and Lower Cases

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• THE PAONMNEAHL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID
• AOCCDRNIG TO A RSCHEEACHR AT CMABRIGDE 
  UINERVTISY, IT DEOSN'T MTTAER IN WAHT OREDR THE
  LTTEERS IN A WROD ARE THE OLNY IPRMOATNT TIHNG
  IS TAHT THE FRIST AND LSAT LTTEER BE IN THE
  RGHIT PCLAE. THE RSET CAN BE A TAOTL MSES AND YOU
  CAN SITLL RAED IT WOUTHIT A PORBELM. TIHS IS
  BCUSEAE THE HUAMN MNID DEOS NOT RAED ERVEY LTETER
  BY ISTLEF, BUT THE WROD AS A WLOHE. AMZANIG HUH?
  YAEH, AND I AWLYAS THOUGHT SLPELING WAS
  IPMORANTT!

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• The Phaonmneal Pweor of the Hmuan Mnid
• Aoccdrnig to a rscheeachr at Cmabrigde 
  Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the
  ltteers in a wrod are the olny iprmoatnt tihng
  is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the
  rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you
  can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is
  bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter
  by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
  Yaeh, and I awlyas thought slpeling was
  ipmorantt!

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Crossing the Corpus Callosum

• cat
• dog
• ACCORDING
• according

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Contrasting Fonts
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Fonts and Placement
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Using Contrast

• Lets look at some examples from newsletters
  and flyers!

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Contrast
is one of the most effective ways to add visual
interest to a page.
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Contrast and Placement
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Turn the page to landscape view
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and add some topics as bold questions!
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Alignment and Know How!
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Alignment and Placement
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CRAP Visual Organization
Group related items to reduce clutter and provide
reader with an organized structure.
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Putting It All Together

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Is this really C.R.A.P.?
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Think Outside the Box!
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Basic Design Principles Lets Recap

• Contrast
• Repetition
• Alignment
• Proximity

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Meet with your Design Principles Partner and Share

• One thing that you want to do differently.
• OR
• One thing that you plan to share with a
  colleague.

Something I intend to do differently
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Andragogy

• With your Adult Learning partner, process how
  we have honored this precept
• 1. Adults need movement.

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Andragogy

• With your Adult Learning partner, process how
  we have honored this precept
• 2. Adults bring experience and a wealth of
  knowledge.

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Andragogy

• With your Adult Learning partner, process how we
  have honored this precept
• 3. Adults are goal-oriented and seek practical
  application.

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Closure

• Write yourself a letter including
• what you will use in your next presentation.
• what you will do in the next weeks.
• what you will do in the next months.
• what you want to remember.
• what you will share with a colleague.
• what you want to investigate further.