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Developing your presenting skills
Penny Robertson, Jisc RSC ScotlandTAFLIN - 02 May, 2013
“There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.” - Mark Twain
Don’t…
Scream / Muskva http://www.flickr.com/photos/muskva/110503301/
preparation
production…main tool store / clintjcl
http://www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/
performance
Tay Rail Bridge Looking to Dundee / Ross 2085 http://www.flickr.com/photos/9610484@N05/1120947616/
Preparation
• Think about what you want to achieve–Educate and inform
• Purpose–Why and what
• Audience–Who and where
Preparation
• Know your subject
• Develop a theme
• List the key concepts and points to convey
• Begin to think about ways of illustrating the key points
Building Blocks / nazly http://www.flickr.com/photos/nazly/5502884394/
Preparation: structure• Opening
– Tell them what you are going to tell them
• Body
– Tell them
• Summary
– Tell them what you told them
And in the beginning…
Librarians created the card catalogue system and all was well in the
world…
Structure: opening
• Introduce problem to be addressed and context
• State purpose, scope and main message
• Give outline of presentation
Structure: main body
• Create an outline or storyboard
• Break up with each section making a key point
• Present incrementally, concisely and in logical order
• Illustrate with clear examples and visual aids
Newport-on-Tay, and the Tay Road Bridge/widdowquinn http://www.flickr.com/photos/widdowquinn/3326035503/ [
it’s all about the flow
Structure: concluding
•Must have a clear end to talk
•Brief and simple summary of main points
•Reinforce the main message
•Put in context of the “big picture”
Hand technique
• Who you are• What the point is• What the upshot is• Your organisation that your
married to• How does it affect the little guy
Preparation: quick summary
• Know your audience• Consider your topic and the key points• Give your presentation structure–Beginning–Middle–End
• Don’t overload with too much information
Production
•What’s on the slide•Pictures & video•Tools
• Dundee College’s digitisation diaries: an investigation into the feasibility, benefits and issues of digitising materials for FE.
• Until academic year 2012-13, Dundee College’s library team had never before been asked to digitise materials. The initial request prompted a study into the feasibility of the library undertaking digitisation requests for three key reasons: to improve services available to users; to promote and assist in the use of materials on the VLE and to achieve better value for money under the current CLA Licence.
• Over the last year, Dundee College has seen many changes. The five campus estate slimmed down to two large campuses, Kingsway and Gardyne, and there were numerous systems and IT developments. One of the developments was the implementation of Moodle, replacing Blackboard, as the College’s VLE.
Don’t…
Nice clear (obvious heading)
• Bullet to make each point• Sans serif font (possibly a personal
preference)!• Large font (easy to read from a
distance)• White space
Think about your colour schemes…
DON’T
USE
TOO MANY
Transitions&
Animations
Visual aids•Charts and tables•Images•Moving image/videos
Visual Aids
Images
Simpsons Boat/herzgogbr http://www.flickr.com/photos/herzogbr/2912789717/
• Use flickr for finding images
• Choose advanced search
• Choose Creative Commons Licensed option
• Always attribute images you use
www.flickr.com/search/advanced
http://creativecommons.org/
Moving image/videos
Tools I• More to life than PowerPoint…• Prezi• Keynote• Google docs• Sliderocket• Tiki toki• visual.ly• Slideshare
Tools II Tablet apps for presenting:
•Sliderocket (also android)•Preziviewer•Ideaflight•Xavier Presentation•SlideGrabber•Mighty Meeting (android only)
Production: quick summary
• Consider font sizes & layout of text• Don’t go OTT with transition &
animation• Use images, charts & film to bring
your slides to life• Experiment with other tools for
presentations
Performance• Don’t lose audience• Keep audience informed about
what you are doing and why?• Summarise points you would like
them to go away with• Use positive language
DeliveryWinging it
+ sounds natural-has much room for error
Speaking from slides + insures organization+ allows eye contact+ allows improvising-some room for error
Memorising a speech+ allows eye contact-difficult for long speeches-no room for improvising
Reading From a Text + ensures precision-does not sound natural-no room for improvising-hinders eye contact
Performance
• Nerves• Be prepared• Rehearse• Structured presentation• Memorise openings & endings• Smile, breathe deeply, slow down and
pause
How to give a bad talk• Thou shalt not be neat • Thou shalt not waste space • Thou shalt cover thy naked slides • Thou shalt not write large • Thou shalt not use colour • Thou shalt not illustrate • Thou shalt not make eye contact • Thou shalt not skip slides in a long talk • Thou shalt not practice!
In summary…
“The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.” - Lily Walters
Thanks for listening!
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