This document provides guidance on public speaking and creating effective multimedia presentations. It discusses that public speaking involves speaking in front of others, which scares many people. To prepare, one should figure out the thesis, structure, and content before practicing their presentation out loud multiple times. When presenting, one should know their topic and audience well, find an engaging hook, stay on topic, avoid repetition, and project confidence. The document also provides tips for multimedia presentations, such as keeping a consistent background design, using sufficient color contrast, adding animation sparingly, making text and images large and easy to see, limiting wordiness, and including relevant images.

1. experiential learning 9th grade: the communication process

2. What is public speaking?
 Public speaking is anytime you have to speak
in public!
 Speaking in public scares more Americans
than going to the dentist, falling, or death!
 This presentation will give you public
speaking basics and help you realize some
good multimedia presentation skills at the
same time.

3. Fears…

4. Before the presentation…
 Preparation is key!
 Figure out a thesis for your
paper.
 Write down the structure
for your presentation.
 Introduction, body, and
conclusion.
Read it out loud.
Edit your writing.
Read it out loud again.
Put it into your
presentation.
 Practice again.
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5. Basics of Public Speaking
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Know your topic
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Know your audience
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If you try to do what your friends would do, you will mess up. Just be yourself and you
will feel the most comfortable!
Stay on point
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A hook is an interesting, funny, or creative beginning to your presentation. The first 30
seconds of a presentation are very important, so a good hook will keep your audience
focused.
Be yourself
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What do they find funny? What are they interested in? What would they like to hear
about your topic?
Find a hook
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Your are the expert of the topic you have chosen.
Nobody in the room knows more than you so make sure that you know it thoroughly so
you can teach others.
Do not discuss topics that are not important to your presentation. They will distract
your audience and you will lose your focus.
Do not repeat yourself
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Do not repeat yourself.  Repeating a point more than a few times sounds as if you do
not have anything else to say. So avoid repetition.

6. Confidence
•Project a calm, confident
tone while speaking.
•You are the expert on the
topic, so you have nothing
to worry about!
•Audience members can
tell when you are nervous
or do not know what you
are talking about.
•Confidence can be gained
through good preparation
and effective practicing.

7. Tips
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Attitude is everything!
Preparation is key
Confidence comes with practice
Refer to sources correctly
 You will need to have outside sources for your information in the
presentation. Make sure to know how to pronounce names and the
author’s main idea correctly.
 First 30 seconds are the most important!
 This is the hook.
 If you have a creative, witty, or interesting introduction, you can hold
the audience’s attention for the rest of the presentation.
 Strong conclusion
 Just like the introduction, have a strong message the audience can
take away from your presentation.
 Avoid just repeating your introduction and your thesis statement.
 Action statements make good conclusions.

8. Now… Presentation basics
You have just worked your way through a
multimedia presentation. Now you are going to
learn how to construct a multimedia presentation!

9. First, a tutorial.
 There are 6 tips for all
multimedia
presentations. Before
you can start that,
however, you should
become familiar with
how the presentation
program works. If you
are new to the
program, please click
here.

10. 6 Power point tips
1. Have consistent slide
backgrounds.
2. Contrast helps people
see your presentation.
3. Animation adds some
flavor.
4. Make it large!
5. Too many words turns
your audience off.
6. Images are important!

11. Consistency
 Having a consistent
background adds to your
presentation.
 An easy way to distract
your audience is by
having your slide
background constantly
change.
 You want to seem in
charge of your
presentation, so keep
the design simple and
consistent.

12. Contrast
 Contrast is when two
colors are put next to each
other which are very
different from one
another.
 For example green and
blue or black and white.
 Look at the boxes to the
right. Which one is easier
to view?
 The greater the contrast,
the better your audience
will be able to read your
slide.
Can you read
me now?
Can you read
me now?

13. Animation
 Animation can assist in a
Too many words?
Animation can help
improve a slide!
Too many words?
Animation can help
improve a slide!
given situation, but too
much can distract.
 Animation can be for an
image or letters in a slide
or between slides.
 There are two types of
animation to the left;
which one is more
distracting?
 Use animation to give
some flavor to a slide
that is a little flat.

14. Large…
Notice that in this slide everything is large and easy to see. Making your
words and pictures large is very important when working with power
point!

15. Wordy Slides…
 Multimedia presentations are
visual tools. It is not a good tool
to use if you have too much to say.
 So keep your words to a
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minimum.
This slide has quite a few words,
some may say too many.
They are easy to read, however,
because they are large enough.
Also, the addition of the fish
animation adds to the slide.
A multimedia presentation is not a
chance for you to write a paper. It
is a chance to give a summary of
the main points of a paper.
Use bullet points to break up the
writing.

16. Images…
 Images are important to
a multimedia
presentation, so do not
shy away from clip art,
images, or artistic
designs to show off your
text.
 The slide at right has an
image, a box around the
words, and a strong
background.
 The overall effect is very
professional and
pleasing to the eye.

17. Congratulations and good luck! Hope your presentation goes well!