Making a Presentation

This presentation is very short. Just a few ideas.

This presentation is to give you a few tips about giving a presentation.

Chris Jennings - PageToScreen

Simple Rules:

• Speak slowly
• Speak loudly
• Introduce yourself
  • first slide with your name on it

Don’t:

• Look at the projected screen
• Hide behind the hardware
• Rush
• Apologize
• Mumble

Make sure to:

• Prepare
• as much as possible
• do research
• Rehearse
  • This will foster confidence
• Create notes for yourself
  • and possibly for your audience
• but don’t read from a text
• Smile!

Perform:

• With enthusiasm
  • be passionate
• Be confident
  • It helps to have prepared
• Sound knowledgeable
  • Research your idea

The technology:

• Test your presentation
  • make sure the thing works
  • try on a different computer from your own
  • keep it simple
  • take a backup!
• Use multimedia
  • only if you need to!
  • don’t try to compete with audio
• Don’t use ‘rare’ fonts
  • unless you present from your own computer

Slides:

• Create a structure
  • Use ‘outlining’ as a way to develop ideas
• More slides / less content on each
• Bullet points are headings
• Pace the slide sequence
  • Less than 2 minutes on each slide
• Not too much detail!
• Check the speling!

On the slides:

• Introduce the idea
  • ‘This is what this is going to be about’
• Use graphics to illustrate your points
  • Make the slide look good
• Finish with a summary
  • Define the idea with a title

Your presence:

• Look at the audience
  • Try to make eye contact with everyone
  • Smile
• avoid getting in the way of the screen
  • Set things up so you can be to one side
• Don’t fidget
  • Only touch the mouse or keyboard when you need to
• Don’t move around too much 

Most important:

• Introduce the talk
• Do the talk
  • Don’t go over time
• Finish with a summary