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Presentation Skills: Crash Course Radek Pel anek Really Brief - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Presentation Skills: Crash Course Radek Pel anek Really Brief - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Presentation Skills: Crash Course Radek Pel anek Really Brief Version Have something to say and say it clearly. Bit Longer Version How to Give an Academic Talk (P. N. Edwards) http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtotalk.pdf Presentation
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Bit Longer Version
How to Give an Academic Talk (P. N. Edwards) http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtotalk.pdf
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Presentation Skills
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- verall organization
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delivery: verbal, non-verbal
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slides
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Overall Organization
- ne main message
talk is linear, “one-way” humans have limited working memory (magic number 7) use concrete examples from concrete to abstract
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Preparation Hint: Mind Maps
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Timing
timing
hard important very common problem (e.g., thesis defence)
practice basic guess: 1-3 minutes per slide
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Delivery
speaking: loudly clearly facing audience right speed vary the pitch eye contact appropirate gesticulation beware:
“body language” hands
this is not easy – don’t be unnecessarily depressed by your mistakes
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Slides
good design is nice, but content is more important limited time for preparation of presentation rather than tuning design: content, practice, ...
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Few Basic Rules Concerning Slides That You MUST Always Obey
Do not put too much text on the slide. Otherwise the listeners will not listen, but read and thus they will get lost. Use large font – you will not be able to put too much text then.
Do not use whole sentences. Just brief points.
Sub-items should be logical and coherent. Pictures only relevant.
Colors should be used adequately. Be creative in content, not in design.
Do not read from slides!!! DO NOT USE unnecessarily large letters and different fonts. Nem´ ıchejte zbyteˇ cnˇ e ruzn´ e jazyky. Pay atentin to typos, gramattical erors and slang.
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Slides: Some Tips
large, sans-serif font contrasting colors simple design no crazy visual effects think twice about the “overview” slide note: “educational” slides from lectures are often not good example try to avoid bullet lists...
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