week three blog entry

Week Three


Lecture Summary



The outline of week threes lecture was on oral presentataion and how to be prepared and confident. We learnt techniques that would teach us how to act more confident and interesting when we are presenting a speech. We learnt how to attract the audiences attention by speaking clearly and acting confident even though we may not be. The interaction between you and the audience makes that speech more appealing and the audience is more likely to enjoy it. The lecture also discussed the liklyhood of the technology not working on the day of the oral presentation and to never rely on technology and to always have a back up such as a print out of your work.



Workshop


In the workshop the weekly blog entry was explained as we had to make up a power point presentation on anything we desired to write about. It had to include a title slide, Introduction, 3 main bodies and a summary slide. It also had to incluse graphic photos and animations to make the slides more interesting.







Reading One


This weeks reading included advice on oral presentations, how to give a well presented on and how not to. The section on how not to give a good presentation included the 'Ten commandments'. These commandments were one's that somebody would do if they did't want a good presentation.


Some of these included:


I. Thou shalt not be neat.


V. Thou shalt not write large.


VI. Thou shalt not use colour.


VII. Thou shalt not make eye contact.


X. Thou shalt not practice.



The section on preparing a well presented presentation stated to address the audience and to practise your speech in public. It also gave an outline on what was included in a power point presenation to perform well. It stated how many minutes each area of your speech should include.



For example:


Title /author/affiliation (1 slide)


Outline (1 slide)


Result (4-6 slides)


There was an extra section on academic interview talks. This included how many minutes a certain section of a interview should include i.e. Take a 20 minutes conference talk


Save 5 minutes for questioning.