WEEK EIGHT

25.04.08

PRESENTATION STRATEGIES

Lecture
Today's Lecture was all about learning how to present an effective oral presentation using helpful presentation strategies. The power point slides also gave tips on how to do so.

First I learnt there are different types of presentations. These are:

SELF CONTAINED PRESENTATIONS

• CD ROM
  Web-page
  Video
  
• WRITTEN PRESENTATIONS
  Essay
  Paper
  
• STAND AND DELIVER
  Oral Presentations
  

I also learnt that its very important when making a PowerPoint presentation to choose a subtle back ground, don't use a lot of animation, don't use sound effects and also never use irrelevant graphics.


Tutorial
Today's tutorial class focused on making a PowerPoint presentation.


Task1.
After looking at the web site: http://www.personal.psu.edu/uxg3/blogs/undergraduateresearch/2008/02/online-resources-for-how-to-pr.html
I made a list of the top five strategies for making an effective PowerPoint presentation. These are:

• Start the presentation with an interesting topic and end with a BANG
• Know your audience
• Keep the PowerPoint slides simple
• Define the problem and state the central question, then indicate the importance of what was done or state what was found
• Believe in the presentation
  

Task 2.
These following slides are my example of a PowerPoint presentation that is simple and effective. The slide includes top notch tips on how to make PowerPoint slides.

Readings.
The first was called Presentation Helper. It focused on how to give bad presentations, with giving examples of what NOT to do.
These points were set out like the 10 commandments.
Some examples of these were:

• Thou shalt not waste space
• Thou shalt not write large
• Thou shalt not use colour
  

The second reading was continuing on with how to give a bad presentation. Some examples of these were:

• DON’T just wing it
• DON’T abandon your objective