1. TBA Please sit at tables with students not from your program
Training Workshop for the Three-Minute Thesis Competition
F. Jay Breyer & Christine Kelly
TBA
Please sit at tables with students not from your program

2. Official Welcome
and Brief Introductions

3. Training Session Agenda
Competition Review
Outline Suggestions for Three-minute Narration
Static Slide Options for Narration
Work to storyboard your narration
Present those ideas to your student colleagues & receive feedback
Develop tentative ideas for a static slide
Present those ideas to your student colleagues
Tables report the types of Suggestions for Improvement that were given as critiques for students at their tables

4. Objectives At the end of this session you should have:
A proposed slide you want to have showing during your presentation
An outline of your presentation

5. Competition Review Each student will have two static slides:
A cover slide:
Research Title, Student Name, Program/Department, and Fordham University, Bronx, NY
(This first slide is shown as each speaker is introduced.)
A static content page -
Text or Graphics
(This second slide is shown during the narration.)
Each student will have three minutes to introduce, explain in a compelling fashion their research and its significance to a non-specialist audience.

6. Rules
See the handout

7. Judging Criteria
Comprehension & Content: Did the presentation help the audience understand the research? Was the thesis topic and its significance communicated in language appropriate to an intelligent but non-specialist audience?
Engagement & Communication: Did the oration make the audience want to know more? Did the speaker have sufficient stage presence, eye contact and vocal range; maintain a steady pace, and have a confident stance?

8. Slide Types Emblematic Single photograph/illustration/drawing
Photograph/illustration with some text (e.g., a quote)
Contrasting photographs/Illustrations
Process
screen divided into two, three or four sections with arrows showing process

9. Suggested Outline Introduction
Rhetorical question followed by background for context - tell a story
1st point - Research question - Why it’s important
2nd point - Methodology - Treatment - Conditions
3rd point - Results - no more than three
Conclusion
Significance of research

10. Some Examples Financial Education
Uses Dickens to talk about the gap between knowing what to do and doing it in Financial lives - Slide: Illustration with Text
Psychology
Risk taking in males - Slide: Illustration using Trivial Pursuit
Humanities - Education
Selecting advanced mathematics courses in high school - Slide: illustration and text as slide
Biochemistry
Uses bananas to talk about Parkinson’s disease - Slide: Process

11. Some Mistakes Notice the use of filler sounds in the presentation
Moves around the stage to the point of distraction
The speaker never refers to the overhead slide

12. Work in Teams Using the Student Worksheet (20 minutes)
Fill out your name, presentation title
Your slide description and Why it helps
Fill out your presentation outline
Five paragraph format
Then describe your topic, slides, and presentation to your Teammates - (15 Minutes - Five for each team member.)
Teammates make written comments
About slide, Comprehension & Content & Significance
Teams present results of criticisms and comments to all in summary form (Use Comment Form)

13. Presentation Hints What counts against you?
False starts (e.g., repeating a word)
use of filler words (e.g., ummm, you know?, OK? “Like”)
Best way to prepare?
Practice
Record yourself and view the recording

14. TBA Please Complete the Evaluation Form and
let us know how to improve this training session. Thank you.
Jay & Christine
TBA