Thursday, May 22, 2008

WEEK 8

Week 8

Lecture Summary

In this week’s lecture we discussed oral presentations. This was a very important and useful topic. Helen also talked about what we will get assessed on while making a power point presentation. During the lecture we also watched a video that gave us some very good tips for a successful presentation. After looking at the video we ranked good presentation tips. However, we discussed how we can create an effective presentation.

Self contained presentation

  • Webpage
  • CD-Rom and

  • Video

Writing presentation

  • Essay
  • Paper

Stand and deliver

  • Oral presentation


    Tutorial Summary

    After look at Laura Guerin’s “online resource for how to prepare and deliver a presentation” At : www.personal.psu.edu/uxg3/blogs/undergraduateresearch/2008/02/online-resources-for-howpr.html
    I used this method and some other methods that is presented in our UPC lecture notes to make a top five strategies to help and get some tips on doing a presentation:

    1) Do not over load the slides with notes
    2) check the spelling and grammar
    3) use kiss: keep it simple
    4) use facts and figures appropriately
    5) Practice and prepare


    Task 2
    In the second task we had to complete a power Point presentation of six slides showing how to make a power point presentation. It was to contain a title slide and introductory slide, at least three “body” Slides and finally graphics and at least one animation effect that improve the presentation.

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