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Effective Presentations

iClicker Question

I am comfortable giving presentations.

• A. Strongly agree
• B. Agree
• C. Don’t agree or disagree
• D. Disagree
• E. Strongly disagree

Workspace 1

• Describe an opening scene to a movie

that really caught your attention?

• Why did it catch your attention?

Strong story questions…

• Create audience engagement
• Why is this happening?
• What’s going to happen next?
• Who will win?
• Will he/she find what they’re looking for?
• Work best if:
• The goal is clear
• The solution isn’t obvious or predictable
• The consequences are serious or interesting

Strong presentation questions…

• Within the first few minutes, the audience

will either know, or be interested in finding

• ut:
• Why does this presentation matter?
• What am I going to find out that I didn’t know before?
• How much attention and effort will I have to invest?

Overview

• Presentation rationale and strategies
• Whys
• Hows
• Don’ts
• Dos

Whys

Cognitive processing

• Meerkats (and most living creatures)

are genetically programmed to pay attention to what’s different

• Survival skill
• Message: Food? Friend? Predator? Will

this be on the test?

• Evidence: Change in sound, smell, visual

field, knowledge state…

• Anything new or unexpected is

automatically interesting

Understand attention patterns

Too little input = boredom, drifting Too much input =

• verload, filtering

me hey chick sent me high eee

• Mihaly

Csikszentmihalyi

• One model of

human information processing

• Optimal balance

between challenge and ability

• Deep, effortless

engagement

• Time flies by

iClicker Question

If a presentation has low complexity and I am highly skilled at the topic, I will likely be in a state of _____.

• A. Flow
• B. Anxiety
• C. Relaxation
• D. Boredom
• E. Apathy

iClicker Question

If a presentation has high complexity and I am highly skilled at the topic, I will likely be in a state of _____.

• A. Flow
• B. Anxiety
• C. Relaxation
• D. Boredom
• E. Apathy

iClicker Question

If a presentation has low complexity and I have low skill in a topic, I will likely be in a state of _____.

• A. Flow
• B. Anxiety
• C. Relaxation
• D. Boredom
• E. Apathy

iClicker Question

If a presentation has high complexity and I have low skill in a topic, I will likely be in a state of _____.

• A. Flow
• B. Anxiety
• C. Relaxation
• D. Boredom
• E. Apathy

Practice problems

• What is typically seen as interesting?
• What happens if you have too little or

too much input?

• Can you describe the different states by

Csikszentmihalyi?

Hows

Presentation structures

• Journalistic (inverted

pyramid)

• Resolution first

(headline), details later, usually in descending importance

• Dramatic
• Question first, details in

ascending importance, resolution near last

Presentation structures

• Scientific
• Introduction, background, methods, analysis,

conclusion, future

Introduction Background Methods Analysis Conclusion Future

To create engagement…

• 1. Tell us: Your topic, and

why it’s important

• 2. Show us: Back up your

claims in a visual, structured way, with info we don’t already know

• 3. Suggest: Implications,

unanswered questions

Workspace 2

• I will read 10 words. Please do not take

notes on the words. I will say “recall”. At this time, do your best to write the 10 words in order in workspace 2.

Primacy/recency effect

• Primacy effect: people tend to remember

the first item in a sequence

• Recency effect: people also tend to

remember the last thing they heard

• Information is best remembered early

and late in a presentation

iClicker Question

If my presentation begins with a resolution followed by important details and background information, which presentation style am I using?

• A. Journalistic
• B. Scientific
• C. Dramatic
• D. Flow
• E. None of the above

iClicker Question

To give my audience the best chance of remembering content from my presentation, I included important points at the end of my

• presentation. What effect I am focusing on with

my audience?

• A. Primacy
• B. Recency

Practice problems

• Can you name and describe three

different presentation structures?

• Describe how you can create

engagement?

• What is the primacy and recency effect?

How does this impact presentations?

Don’ts

Don’t TMI: Info overload

Learn about a new family of technologies that will have great consequences for practice in your field

• nce it becomes widely available. By a "family" I mean a broad category of technologies such as

nanotechnology or grid computing around which new institutions of research and application are forming, rather than a single invention that may or may not build a critical mass of acceptance. In general, build yourself an intelligence system for learning what new research is in the pipeline, so that you can formulate the issues that will become important once the new methods become practical. If you're not interested in technologies, then try government policies instead. Government policies have an immense and generally non-obvious impact on society, thus creating opportunities for people who are aware of them. Keep yourself apprised, therefore, of the pipeline of new policies that fall even remotely within your field of competence, including seemingly small and obscure ones whose significance no one else recognizes, and identify the ones whose impacts are going to be issues for your field. Phil Agre, Networking on the Network

Don’t prioritize your creativity

• ver your audience’s

understanding

• People will totally remember my

green on salmon slides!!

• Yeah, maybe with NINJAS too
• And rainbow text
• Wait, what was this slide about?

Don’t abuse tools to gain attention

• I will only use animations to highlight very

important points, or not at all

• I’m having tacos for lunch!

Dos

Do: Let the audience come to you

Like whispers, small inputs encourage closer attention…

…just make sure what you’re whispering is worth paying attention to!

Do: More visuals, less text

• Visuals are the meal,

text is the seasoning

• Let people absorb

visuals on their own, then look to you or the text to clarify

Do: Use proven design techniques

• Rule of thirds: Add visual

interest by placing important images or information at the four points where the lines on a 3X3 grid intersect…

Do: Be creative

• The creator of this slide at least made an

effort to present information attractively

Do: Experiment with structure

• Pecha Kucha
• 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide
• Slides advance automatically
• Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8XUmvS IAv0

Do: Present as a team

• Humans + technology = teammates
• Let each member do what they do best
• Humans: interpret info, communicate

importance and enthusiasm

• Tech: organize and visualize info

Presentation secrets of Steve Jobs

• 1. Create memorable moments
• 2. Humanize numbers
• 3. Think visually
• 4. Create Twitter-friendly headlines
• 5. Practice
• 6. Have fun

Paraphrased from Carmine Gallo, cultofmac.com

Practice problems

• How can you get the audience to pay close

attention to what you are saying?

• How do text and visuals impact the audience?

How should you expect them to use each?

• How does the rule of thirds work in regards to

pictures?

• What is the Pecha Kucha presentation format?
• How do humans and technology work together to

make an effective presentation?

• List a few takeaways based on the presentation

secrets from Steve Jobs.

On-line lecture

• Learn about the technical components of

presentations

• Modalities
• Finding visuals (expanding search skills)
• Visual design

Pecha Kucha EC

• We will have a pecha kucha presentation night in

the open labs.

• 10 pts based on the following criteria:
• 9 slides with automatic transitions (20 seconds per

slide)

• Technology-based topic (either expanding on a

lecture or the impact of technology on your major with real world examples)

• Presenter explains concepts in terms a lay audience

is able to understand

• Good visual design
• The speaker and the presentation match seamlessly

and complement one another. (includes attire)

iClicker Question

I learned a lot about delivering presentations.

• A. Strongly agree
• B. Agree
• C. Don’t agree or disagree
• D. Disagree
• E. Strongly disagree