The document provides guidance for effective presentation skills. It discusses identifying the audience and their needs, developing a clear central idea or "big idea" in one sentence, telling a story with visuals rather than text, rehearsing but acting spontaneous, leaving space in slides for emphasis, and being brave rather than perfect. The goal is to engage the audience and address what they hope to gain.

1. Presentation literacy
Skills for effective communication
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Monica Bulger, Oxford Internet Ins9tute
July 11, 2011

2. why present?

3. are presentations simply
information transfer?

4. consider the human element

5. consider the human element
audience + presenter

6. understand audience needs & expectations
from Richard Mayer’s Multimedia Learning (2001)

7. first, who is your audience?

8. it’s you

9. why are you here?
what do you hope to gain from
the next two weeks?

10. audience: what are they passionate about?
what motivates them, keeps them up at night?
how can your presentation address their needs?
from Nancy Duarte’s slide:ology (2008)

12. Purpose for presentation at SDP:
...feedback from experts on work
...address questions/challenging areas
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...interdisciplinary discussion
...areas of mutual interest and/or mutual
challenge

13. persuade
inform
advocate
clarify
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test
Purpose confirm
challenge
question
experiment
practice

14. what do you hope to gain from presenting?
from Nancy Duarte’s slide:ology (2008)

15. before they leave the room, what do you want
your audience to know?

16. preparation: clear enough understanding to
effectively communicate idea to others

17. BIG
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idea
from Carmine Gallo’s The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs (2009)
& Nancy Duarte’s slide:ology (2008)

18. one sentence describing
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your research

19. spend 5 minutes developing your
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big idea and be prepared to share
with another student

20. what surprised you in your
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discussions?

21. critical directions vs.
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disciplinary detours

22. tell TITLE
a story
from Nancy Duarte’s Reasonate (2010)

23. stories are how we make
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sense of the world

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what is your story?

25. toughest challenge of
interdisciplinary dialogue:
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address the
so what?
of your research

26. Think differently: not what
the data has to say, but
what you have to say
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about the data
from Nancy Duarte’s slide:ology (2008)

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Think
visually Text
Text
Text
Text
from Richard Mayer’s
Multimedia Learning (2001)

28. Draw viewer’s attention to key points
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from Garr Reynold’s Presentation Zen (2007)

29. Draw viewer’s attention to key points
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from Garr Reynold’s Presentation Zen (2007)

30. Delivery

31. Ted commandments:
...rehearse, but act spontaneous
...provide revelations
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...show vulnerability
...don’t be tedious
...change the world
...don’t use bullet points

32. sustaining attention:
the importance of spare words
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and blank screens
from Richard Mayer’s Multimedia Learning (2001)

33. STAR moment
from Nancy Duarte’s slide:ology (2008)

34. have a plan for what to do if
you get nervous or forget

35. strategic Q & A
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36. words toTITLE
remember:
thank you
I don’t know

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ask a colleague to take notes
during Q & A

38. “ This is not the time to be perfect:
be brave.
--Victoria Nash