Week 8, here we go again.

Week Eight

Evolution of the figure 8

Interesting?

This week’s lecture explained the different aspects of a good presentation. As we are currently doing speeches in another one of our units this is very beneficial.

Presentations

- Make the information relevant and important.

- Connect with the audience (know your audience)

- Have a passion for the topic (if you are bored the audience will be bored).

- Generate energy and draw attention towards yourself (make them look at you)

- Convince the audience (your ideas are the right ones)

- Use hooks, give the audience something to remember you by

- Involve the audience, worksheets, props or questions

- Use quick catch sentences

- Rehearse, know your equipment and have back ups

- Keep it simple, less is more

A speech still has to consist of an Introduction, Main Body and Conclusion, just like any essay. You also may be required to have references.

Tutorial

http://lasi.lynchburg.edu/benson_k/public/writing/oral.html

My Top Five List of Strategies to Delivering a Presentation

1. Speak with your audience in mind, if you are speaking to a general audience, you can define your terms and give more background information. If you are speaking to a specialized audience, you would spend more time expanding the information in you topic.
2. Know the level of expertise of the audience, use language suited to their level of knowledge/intelligence.
3. On PowerPoint slides minimize text, do not have more than one item or sentence on a slide.
4. Relax take your time an audience would rather hear a calm talk with limited information than a speech with lots of information spoken quickly.
5. Know your speech, rehearse, rehearse, rehearse and rehearse.

Here is one I prepared earlier;

I already knew how to use PowerPoint so I did not need any assistance with that. I had already created this PowerPoint slide for another unit, so I did not have to start at nothing. But as I had the opportunity to explain and expand on the slides in my speech, which I do not get here so I have to added extra text from my speech.

Well that’s me done, read me soon.

References

A. M. (2007).Fun Facts and Trivia. Retrieved May20, 2008, from

http://www.funfacts.com.au/facts-on-the-number-8/