Presentation Skills

Useful for tutors as well as students, whenever you present information via speech or audio-visual means. General help on some key issues behind good talks, lectures, seminar inputs, interviews.
Tutor-led work or self-directed student study, in three parts. A mixture of handouts, overhead transparencies/slides (OTs) and guidance sheets.

Presentation Skills 1
Some general ideas on making presentations

Exercise 1:   
Body vs Brain    Is presentation about the body or the brain?

Exercise 2:   
Prompting    Techniques for making a passage connect & flow.

Exercise 3:   
Breaking Stones    Improving stodgy or woolly passages.
OT:     
The Power of Prompts    Simple example, showing how key a 'prompt' can be.

 

Presentation Skills 2
Designing OTs: the dos and don'ts


Handout:   
(a) Overall considerations in making a presentation. Speaker + audience.

Handout:   
(b) Designing an overhead/handout. The 4 Ls: Load, Look, Layout, Learning.

OTs:     
(c) Some examples of OTs:   
# 1   Awful!
# 2   Better? How much so?
# 3   Effect of removing 'visual cues'
# 4   Effect of paring things down
# 5   A good overhead transparency?

OT:     
(d) A note on proofing.

 

Presentation Skills 3
Voice, Body and Breath

Handout:   
Preparing to speak. Being still. Habits. Relaxation. Dealing with nerves! Rehearsals.

 

Seminars on Presentation

Instructions:  
Seminar A    Producing OTs     
Practise making a good transparency, using suitable course texts (group work).

Instructions:  
Seminar B    'Holding the Thought'   
Working (in pairs) on your oral delivery.
About 1 hour to do both. Suitable source texts needed (eg via tutor).

 

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