Week 8

Task 1- Observe Several Websites on Making a Good Presentation:

I went onto “Online resources for how to prepare and deliver a presentation” by Laura Guertin and looked at the different resources that were present. They included:

How to make a great talk, by the American Association of Plant Biologists.

Oral presentations, by Lynchburg College.

Oral presentation advice, and how to give a bad presentation, by Mark Hill (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

How to give better presentations, by James Hayes-Bohanan (Bridgewater State College).

Preparing an oral presentation, by Jeffrey Radel (University of Kansas Medical Center).

The Top Five List of Strategies to Help Deliver a Good Presentation Include:

1. Keep each slide simple, and brief
2. Use as little text on slide as possible
3. Make a speech and not read off the presentation slides.
4. Make sure your ideas and points are clear and valid
5. Understand and know your topic.

Task 2 – Construction of a Low Impact Presentation:

I created a low impact PowerPoint presentation with all the faults that should be made for a bad presentation as asked by including:

Title slide:

Introductory slide:

3 ‘Main body’ slides:

Summary slide:

Reference slide:

Graphics and 2 animation effect that enhance the presentation:

Lecture:

This week’s lecture consisted of presentation techniques where the class satarted with a video of a person presenting a PowerPoint presentation and putting across all the bad techniques of presenting it. The methods that were spoken of in the lecture include: structuring, preparing your presentation, using Microsoft Word and getting the audience involved.


Tutorial:

Our tutorial this week involved our tutor going through several options in PowerPoint to show the class the different features that were available so we could complete our task.

Readings of the Week:

How to give a bad presentation by David A. Patterson describes ten steps in which you should follow to create a bad presentation, under each point it is given a bit more description. This webpage is for students to open their eyes up when giving a presentation. It was from the circa of 1983 so the information seems to still be relevant, it could have been written yesterday as it still is applicable.

10 ways to give a bad presentation by Guest Contributor speaks of ten steps in how to create a bad presentation. I feel that this website was not as efficient as David A. Patterson writing as his was straight to the point whereas this one seems to be rambling on. Though this article was written quite recently for the internet but the other was not originally for the internet.

How not to give a presentation by Richard Smith gives four points on how to give a bad presentation which include:

Preparing for a bad presentation
Aids to a bad presentation
Delivering your bad presentation
Winding down

PowerPoint Tutorial by http://www.actden.com/pp2003/ gives help on working with PowerPoint, creating slides, adding images, creating animation, adding sounds, rehearsing for presenting a PowerPoint and several other areas.