'presentation skills' is about how to plan and arrange your matter

1. Prof. Khodave D. K
M.A., M. Ed. SET (English, Education)
Shardabai Pawar Mahila Mahavidyalaya,
Shardanagar
Presentation Skill

2. Purpose of Presentation
 Training
 Teaching and Learning
 Informing
 Assessment
 Advocacy/ Persuasion

3. Benefits of Presentations
 Student-centred participation in their learning
 Developing new knowledge and different
perspectives on a topic
 Practice in a known environment/ situation
 Increasing confidence to speak and present in
front of an audience
 Improving marks/ grades
 Developing wide range of communication and
presentation skill
 An exchange of roles and perspectives from
audience to presenter

4. What are effective presentations?
 Careful planning and preparation
 Good time management
 Relevant and interesting content
 Clear structure
 Good communication skills
 Appropriate use of technologies
 Clear support documents
 Suitable audience participation

5. Careful planning preparation
 Searching content matter online and offline
 Use of libraries for reviewing relevant resources
 Discussions with academicians to develop new
knowledge
 Contact with and visit to organizations
 Interviews with experts
 Developing experiments and analyzing results

6. Good time management
 Listing all the tasks to be completed before the
date of presentation
 Placing these tasks in an order of priority
 Allocating the time needed
 Checking your progress regularly
 Reallocating the remaining time

7. Relevant and interesting content
 Decide what to include and what to leave out
 Choose examples to provide interest and improve
understanding
 Provide links to further sources of information

8. Clear structure
 Divide the content into suitable sections
 Brief introduction
 Organized middle
 Effective and cumulative conclusion

9. Good communication skills
 Verbal Communication - Pronunciation
 Use of language
 Visual Communication
 Non Verbal Communication
 Body language
 Gesture and posture
 Voice modulation
 Eye contact

10. Appropriate use of technology
 Technology should be ‘the servant’ and not ‘the
master’
 Use it as integral part of presentation rather than
add-on feature
 It should improve what you have to coomunicate
so that the audience gains better understanding

11. Clear supporting documents
 Hand outs
 Print outs
 Lecture notes
 Any other proofs or documents needed

12. Suitable audience participation
 Asking questions
 Discussions
 Activity/ energizer
 Interactive mode instead of one way teaching
 Helps to understand whether the students are
getting the content

13. Open session