Week Eight in Accessing Knowledge!

25/4/08

Lecture Overview
This weeks lecture was all about presentation strategies. This lecture focused mainly on powerpoint presentations, and using them in oral presentation, that will be needed for our other classes. A powerpoint presentation must include an introduction, body and conclusion. The power point presentation is a very useful tool as it provides the connection between the speech and written works, it also supports and backs up your wordings. The advantages of combining a power point presentation with your oral presentation is that your audience will connect and understand your point of view more clearer and easier, this is because people respond and take more in when combining as many senses as possible, and when using these two types of presentations together your audience are using their visuals, hearing and reading senses. In your presentation you should include the following features:

• Use the strategy KISS (keep it simple stupid).

• Dont use distractive coulours or images that will distract your audience.


• Use animation effects consistently.


• Dont use sounds.


• Dont use irrelevant graphics.

But the most important features that structure a good presentation is having an introduction, body and conclusion.

Tutorial Activities

Activity One:

For activity one we were required to visit the website http://www.personal.psu.edu/uxg3/blogs/undergraduateresearch/2008/02/online-resources-for-how-to-pr.html which was all about "Online resources for how to prepare and deliver a presentation".

After visiting this site we had to look over the site and make a top five list of strategies to create a good presentation.

List of strategies to help you deliver a top notch presentation:

1. Practice, Practice, Practice!!!


2. Use audio/visual aids to enhance your presentation.


3. Speak clearly and learn to pause.


4. Make eye contact and interact with your audience.


5. Structure your speech with an introduction, body and conclusion.

Activity Two:

• For activity two we were required to construct a power point presentation on 'how to give a low impact powerpoint presentation'.

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Reading Summary:

How do give a bad presentation: When preparing a presentation there are many things that you need to take into consideration to avoid a bad presentation. However points that cause a bad presentation are:

• To just wing it.
• Start out weak.
• To think that your speech is either all about you or your boss, instead of focusing of the facts about the topic.
• Substitute facts for opinions.
• Wander off topic and abandon your objective.
• Ignore the environment and declare your own time zone.
• Finish weak.