Week 3- Presentation Strategies

Lecture
The lecture was mainly focused on how to present your work verbally in oral presentation. We focused on three types of presentations: Self-contained presentations, written presentations and oral presentations. The main point that was gathered was that a visual message is not a enough on its own. The audience will remember 10% of what they see, 25% of what see and hear, 40% of what they see, hear and write down and 60% of what they experience interactively.
There were four steps that in the lecture the lecturer wanted to cover. They were that we would structure our presentation correctly, preparation for a presentation, use audio/visual tools in your presentation, and audience involvement.
The three main areas in a structured presentation is a introduction, body and conclusion. With the introduction you really would want to engage the audience early and with a joke or statement to introduce your topic or thesis. The body covers the main areas of the topic and the connective devices to want your saying. Final with the conclusion you want to re-assert/reinforce the thesis and review the main points. Then concluding with a effective closing.

If your going to use visual/audio effects in your presentation make them professional and useful to your thesis. Test all your video and audio effects to see if they work (before your presentation). The most and common presentation program is MS PowerPoint, which is a really easy but effective tool for any oral presentation.





Workshop -
We began to design a six slide presentation on a topic or on ourselves. The presentation was done on MS PowerPoint and would need a introduction, body and conclusion. We also needed to come up with 5 strategies to help layout a well presented oral.

Here are my 5 strategies:

Plan: Plan and find your topic, gather information and articles on your topic start writing notes. Structure: Structure out your presentation using the three main areas in a presentation which are the introduction, body, and conclusion.
Practise: Once you have structured and designed your presentation begin to run through the presentation and practise it by yourself or in front of friends and family.
Use visual aids: Visual aids is a huge tool to equipping you the attention of the class and engaging on something visual and not just your voice.
Conclude: Summarise your statement or debate. Revise the main points again and conclude firmly.

Workshop MS PowerPoint presentation task :















Readings:
Oral Presentation Advice- The reading gave you an overview of what to think about when writing and presenting a oral. Thinking about the audience and rhetorical goals were a few of the areas that was covered. The Reading showed 3 different outlines of a structured presentation. The first on was a generic conference talk which is a great outline for a talk with a well planned out structure. The talk is based around the PowerPoint and each PowerPoint goes for about 2 mins, so there is about a dozen for a 2o min talk. The next stlye of talk is the academic interview talk which is alot different to a conference talk. The goal of a interview talk is too get a job, where a conference talk is getting people interested in your paper or work. The last group is other talks, which is for any other talk but using the same structure as the other groups. It also had a area on how to give a bad talk. Very interesting information that could help any level and form of talk.