7. Tay Rail Bridge Looking to Dundee / Ross 2085
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9610484@N05/1120947616/
8. Preparation
• Think about what you want to
achieve
–Educate and inform
• Purpose
–Why and what
• Audience
–Who and where
9. Preparation
• Know your subject
• Develop a theme
• List the key concepts and points to
convey
• Begin to think about ways of
illustrating the key points
10. Building Blocks / nazly
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nazly/5502884394/
12. And in the beginning…
Maltesers were created
and all was well in the
world…
13. Structure: opening
• Introduce problem to be addressed
and context
• State purpose, scope and main
message
• Give outline of presentation
14. Structure: main body
• Create an outline or storyboard
• Break up with each section making a
key point
• Present incrementally, concisely and
in logical order
• Illustrate with clear examples and
visual aids
15. Newport-on-Tay, and the Tay Road Bridge/widdowquinn
http://www.flickr.com/photos/widdowquinn/3326035503/ [
it’s all about the flow
16. Structure: concluding
• Must have a clear end to talk
• Brief and simple summary of main points
• Reinforce the main message
• Put in context of the “big picture”
17. Hand technique
• Who you are
• What the point is
• What the upshot is
• Your organisation that your
married to
• How does it affect the little guy
18. Preparation: quick summary
• Know your audience
• Consider your topic and the key points
• Give your presentation structure
• Don’t overload with too much
information
20. • overload the slide with tonnes of information,
it can be off putting both for you as a
presenter to remember what the gist of the
slide is and also for your audience to read it
all!
Don’t…
21. Nice clear (obvious heading)
• Bullets to make each point
• Sans serif font (possibly a personal
preference)!
• Large font (easy to read from a
distance)
• White space
35. Production: quick summary
• Consider font sizes & layout of text
• Don’t go OTT with transition &
animation
• Use images, charts & film to bring
your slides to life
• Experiment with other tools for
presentations
36. Performance
• Don’t lose audience
• Keep audience informed about
what you are doing and why?
• Summarise points you would like
them to go away with
• Use positive language
37. Delivery
Winging it
+ sounds natural
-has much room for
error
Speaking from slides
+ ensures organization
+ allows eye contact
+ allows improvising
-some room for error
Memorising a speech
+ allows eye contact
-difficult for long speeches
-no room for improvising
Reading From a Text
+ ensures precision
-does not sound natural
-no room for improvising
-hinders eye contact
38. Performance
• Nerves
• Be prepared
• Rehearse
• Structured presentation
• Memorise openings & endings
• Smile, breathe deeply, slow down
and pause
39. How to give a bad talk
• Thou shalt not be neat
• Thou shalt not waste space
• Thou shalt cover thy naked slides
• Thou shalt not write large
• Thou shalt not use colour
• Thou shalt not illustrate
• Thou shalt not make eye contact
• Thou shalt not skip slides in a long talk
• Thou shalt not practice!
41. “The success of your
presentation will be
judged not by the
knowledge you send but
by what the listener
receives.” - Lily Walters
Editor's Notes
So what I’ve done is look at 3 main areas to consider for presentation
I’ll talk about preparation and the process of preparing for your presentation
tools can help you in preparing, performing and producing your presentation.
This was
For creating your presentation and producing the material that you want to use in your presentation
The actual slide and content
Try your best not to overload the slide with tonnes of information, it can be off putting both for you as a presenter to remember what the gist of the slide is and also for your audience to read it all
Layout
The layout of the slides should be simple and uncluttered. If you wish, there can be a single title line,
and/or a small graphic of some sort. Otherwise, the slide area should be available for your text. Do not
extend your text area to the very edges of the slide.
Colours
The wrong choice of text and background colours can make your presentation virtually unreadable.
White background with black text is probably the most common mistake presenters make. A white
background will generate a very strong light on the screen and in that light, even a bold black text, will
almost disappear.
Generally, a dark background with light text is recommended. Avoid other combinations and always
avoid white backgrounds.
Picture files can be very large and files of excessive size can affect the performance of your computer
and the proper running of your presentation. We recommend the use of .JPG (JPEG Files Interchange
Format) files when inserting pictures. Try to keep
the pictures as small as possible (less than 100kB is
recommended). Insert pictures as embedded objects, not as linked files.
Finding images for your presentation within an online environment has become relatively easy over the last decade.
https://docs.google.com/presentation
Tikitoki Create beautiful timelines
Tiki-Toki is web-based software for creating beautiful interactive timelines that you can share on the internet.
sliderocketOnline Presentation Software & Tools - SlideRocket offers you the ability to ... Easily integrate content from free p
public web resources like Flickr or YouTube and
http://visual.ly/ data visualisations
And once you've created your presentation there are online networks to share it on too, your organisation may already have a presence on slideshare but it’s an excellent way to learn more about topics you’ve presented on and get ideas for presentations you may create in the future
There are so many different ways to aid your performance
Some people write out cards with pertinent points related to each of their slides
Some people prefer to write out a whole script from beginning to end
I usually print off the slide with my notes included
Even accomplished public speakers feel nervous before talks and adrenalin does actually helps you focus your mind
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Be well prepared:
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Rehearse with friends or colleagues, the action of talking through your presentation out loud can really help calm you prior to the big day, practising in front of colleagues can also help you iron out any bits that you’re not comfortable with or get suggestions how you can animate a point
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Make sure presentation is well structured as we spoke about earlier this can help you organise your presentation and create a logical flow to stuff
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Arrive and set up early
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During presentation:
The 2 most common places you can trip yourself up during a presentation is beginning and ending, if it helps you should memorise these, you may have given a great presentation but if it trails off at the end with no definite that is what people will remember.
Smile, breath deeply, slow down and pause
Good talks motivate audience to investigate further and that’s what you want to achieve
So if someone leaves your talk with just one idea or piece of information, then consider your talk a success.
It’s not talent that helps you develop your public speaking but skills and practice.
