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Presentation Skills

The document provides guidance on preparing and delivering effective presentations. It discusses careful planning, understanding the audience, managing time, using relevant and clear content, incorporating technologies and interactivity appropriately. Preparing visual aids and handouts is also covered, emphasizing readability, visibility and direct relevance to the topic. Individual presentations are defined as showing one's own knowledge, while group presentations involve sharing work and drawing on members' abilities, with both approaches having advantages and disadvantages. Prompts, note cards and PowerPoint are presented as options. The document concludes with a presentation checklist.

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Presentation Skills

The document provides guidance on preparing and delivering effective presentations. It discusses careful planning, understanding the audience, managing time, using relevant and clear content, incorporating technologies and interactivity appropriately. Preparing visual aids and handouts is also covered, emphasizing readability, visibility and direct relevance to the topic. Individual presentations are defined as showing one's own knowledge, while group presentations involve sharing work and drawing on members' abilities, with both approaches having advantages and disadvantages. Prompts, note cards and PowerPoint are presented as options. The document concludes with a presentation checklist.

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Presentation Skills

Preparing to Present
Knowledge Check
Activity:

Write down everything that you think you need to know about creating and delivering
a presentation
Presentation Skills
The aim of this presentation is to cover:

Preparing to PowerPoint Presentation


Present Presentations Delivery

Interactivity and Audiovisual


Prompts Audience Aids and
Participation Handouts
What do we mean by an effective presentation?

An effective An effective An effective


presentation is presentation allows presentation is
interesting and useful you to meet your enjoyable and
objectives memorable
Preparing to Present
How to create an effective presentation

- Careful planning and preparation


- Good time management
- Relevant and interesting content
- Clear structure
- Good communication skills
- Appropriate use of technologies
- Clear supporting documentation
- Suitable audience participation

(Chivers and Shoolbred, 2007, p.20-21)


Preparing to Present
Careful planning and preparation

What is the reason for the presentation?


What are the aims and objectives of the presentation?
Who are the audience?
How much time have you got?
What resources do you need to present?
When do you want questions?

Is it assessed?
How interactive will it be?
What are you planning in terms of audience participation?
Preparing to Present
Good Time Management
Planning and Preparation Presentation Delivery

Researching your topic 'It is usually better to deliver less content at


a reasonable pace, then too much content
Learning and understanding any new faster' (Chivers and Shoolbred, 2007, p.22)
knowledge
Consider time spend on audio-visual aids and
Creating your presentation handouts, as well as time for audience
participation
Creating any audio-visual aids or handouts
Remember that if you overrun you maybe asked
Rehearsal time to stop even if you have not finished presenting

Time to edit Rehearsing and editing/expanding


information is key
Using PowerPoint

Select a theme
Consider layout
Use a clear font
Have a consistent style
Use titles, headings, subheadings and
paragraphs where applicable
Presentation Delivery

The Self-fulling
Prophecy

Pygmalion
Golem Effect
Effect
Presentation Delivery

Individual Presentation Group Presentation

Can you define the presentation type?

What do you think are the main similarities and differences


between the two?

What do you think the main advantages and disadvantages are?


Presentation Delivery
Individual Presentation Group Presentation
Show your knowledge Share the work load / One member of the
group is left to do all the work
Grow in confidence
Draw on each members abilities / One member
Gain new skills of the group takes over

Variety in speaker – keeps the audience


engaged / Members of the group shy away
from talking

Display good team work / Shows poor team


work
Prompts

PowerPoint
Supplementary Note
Note
Notes Cards
Option
Audio-visual Aids and Handouts
"Human beings tend to remember what they see more readily than what they hear" (Van Emden
and Becker, 2004, p.34)

Audio-visual Aids and Handout Check List


Consider the following in relation to the readability of your audio-visual aids and handouts

- Visibility Can your audio-visual aids and handouts be easily seen?

- Font Size and Style Is the font clear and easy to read?

- Language Have you used language which is easily understandable or subject specific?

- Visuals Do the visuals used illustrate the same point as your text?

- Background Is the background too distracting? Does it make the text difficult to read?
Audio-visual Aids and Handouts
Visibility: "Everyone in the audience must be able to see everything you show" (Van Emden
and Becker, 2004, p.38)

To Consider:

Do you have enough handouts for the audience? – Are they a suitable
size? Are images printed in colour?

Can the projection be seen from all areas of the room? - Do you need to
change the lighting? Can the seating arrangement be changed?

Can the audio be heard easily? - This could be your voice or a


video/sound clip used
Audio-visual Aids and Handouts
Examples of Audio-visual Aids and Handouts
supplementary

Paper
Flip Chart Videos
Handouts

Black or
Props or Projected
White
Artefacts Presentation
Boards
Audio-visual Aids and Handouts
-Difficult to read font -Clear and easy to read font
-Overly complex use of language – not to -Easy to understand language – to the
the point point
-Image does not directly relate to the topic -Image relates directly to topic
-Busy background -Subtle background

How to bake a an item of soft How to bake a cake


sweet food made from a mixture of
flour, fat, eggs, sugar, and other
ingredients, baked and sometimes
iced or decorated.

Image 1 Image 2
Interactivity and Audience Participation
How will you involve your audience?

At what point will you involve your audience?

Activity:

Write down all the ways that interactivity and audience participation have been used within this
presentation so far

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Presentation Check List
Have you rehearsed your presentation? Have you checked that your presentation runs
to the time allotted?
Have you given your presentation a trial run to
a friend or colleague? Have you prepared any prompts?
Have you checked your facts?
Have you prepared any visual aids that you
Have you done a grammar/spelling check? may need?​

Have you thought about where to breathe?


Presentation Skills
The aims of this presentation were to cover:

Preparing to PowerPoint Presentation


Present Presentations Delivery

Interactivity and Audiovisual


Prompts Audience Aids and
Participation Handouts
References
Chivers, B. and Shoolbred, M. (2007) A student's guide to presentations; making your
presentation count. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications. (Sage essential study skills).

Dale, E. (1969) Audiovisual Methods in Teaching. NY: Dryden Press.

McCarthy, P. and Hatcher, C. (2002) Presentation skills; the essential guide for students. London:
Sage.

Schon, D. (1991) The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think In Action. Basic Books.

Van Emden, J. and Becker, L. (2004) Presentation skills for students. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan.

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