WEEK 8

LECTURE:

Today's lecture was all about how to give a good presentation, it was also about how to give a BAD presentation. Because we are brought up in a technoligy based generation, people seem to go a bit crazy when it comes to given a presentation and using technoligy to back it up. therefore the lecture gave us notes on bad presentations. for example, dont use different fonts for each slide, this is not professional, it makes it look immature, same with using different colour design. pick one and stick to it. Deffinatly dont use the animation sounds etc. Make sure you dont clutter your slides, a cluttered slide jsut makes it look like you dont know what your talking about so you have put everything onto the slide.

The lecture went on to explain more tips on how to give a good presentation. to keep us interested their was a video of a stand up comedian, talking about presentations on powerpoint. this was entertaining and caught our attension, it made us realise how much people overuse slide shows.

As a group, we then discussed what the top 10 most important things we should know about using powerpoint effectively.

At the end we jsut summed up teh important factors that were discussed in the lecture. we all agreed that now we had a better understanding of what was expected of us in our oral presentation.

This week's tutorial, is all about Presentations!! Because we have a presentation to give in a couple of weeks, we are to give 5 handy tips, on how to give a good presentation.

we used this website to help us with our presentation:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/uxg3/blogs/undergraduateresearch/2008/02/online-resources-for-how-to-pr.html

Here are five handy tips!

1. Practise- this is one of the more important tips i extracted from this link: http://webhost.bridgew.edu/jhayesboh/NOT13TH/presentations.HTM

i think this is one of the most important tips, if you have rehearsed what you want to say, your point will come accross to the audeince more effectively.

2. Speak clearly: Make sure you speak loud, and clear. There is nothign worse than listening to a speaker, who is mumbling under their breath. so make sure your head is up, your not jsut reading off notes all teh time, and your loud, so the audience stays in tune.

3. Respect your Audience: do not simplify your information TO much, if you act like the audience is dumb, you will not gain respect. of course you must have a target audience, and change your presentation to suit the audience.

4. Have a Main theme: Try and base your presentation on one main theme. this idea was extracted from this link: http://lasi.lynchburg.edu/benson_k/public/writing/oral.html

make sure that you branch off the idea, but keep comming back to the initial idea.

5. Be Prepared: The worst thing for a presentation, is when you are not prepared at all. make sure you research your topic from all angles (expecially if questions are allowed to be asked following your speach). a well researched speech, is a good speech.

Our second task for today's workshop was to construct a powerpoint slide show, using our ideas on how to give a presentation. we were to include screen shots of each completed slide:

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