1. Making presentations Good design and planning does wonders but - practice makes perfect!

2. Analyze your audience - limit your topic accordingly Determine your primary purpose - the main point you want to get across Select effective supporting information Choose an appropriate pattern of organization Prepare an outline - keep it brief, main points/supporting points only

3. Analyze your audience –Expertise –Hierarchical position (pupil or principal?) –Age –Educational level –Occupation –Attitudes - positive, negative, or neutral to your message

4. Select the appropriate visual aids Overheads (text, pictures, tables, graphs etc.) Slides (PowerPoint) Flip charts Chalkboard Handouts (remember PowerPoint notes!) Use three dimensional objects

5. Computer screen projections Powerpoint with TV or beamer Use URLs (make web pages)

6. PowerPoint Use to make transparencies Use it to make slide/PowerPoint presentations Save as QuickTime animations Save as web(html) presentations Produce PowerPoint notes Add sound effects-narrative-music Animations

7. Slide notes

8. Screenshot - choose slide type

9. Standard mistakes? 1.- 2.- 3.- 4.-

10. Good or bad?

11. Whether slide or transparency- less is better Text - font 20- 22 or larger 32 or 44 for titles Light backgrounds for transparencies,dark text Dark for onscreen documents (light text) Do not clutter pages with too much information/changes/items Use the minimum number of foils/slides

12. Whether slide or transparency- less is better (Slide color scheme) Text - font 20- 22 or larger 32 or 44 for titles Light backgrounds for transparencies,dark text Dark for onscreen documents (light text) Do not clutter pages with too much information/changes/items Use the minimum number of foils/slides

13. Visual aids - Picture 1 Clip art

14. Visual aids- Picture 2 Pictures (high detail - can be turned into a drawing which focuses on key aspects) www.Corbis.com

15. Drawing - line drawing Pick out key detail

16. Hierarchical line drawing Show develop- ment

17. Blow-up Show detail

18. Graphs Line graphs Bar graphs Pie diagrams Tables Flow charts

19. Making graphs in Excel

20. Tables - accurate, information laden, require interpretation

21. Use flow charts for hierachies or processes

22. Use line or bar charts for comparison/ development over time

24. Use pie charts to show shares/percentages (max. 5 items)

25. Visual aids-evaluation

26. Use appropriate structure Good news (direct plan) –Best news or main idea –Explanation All necessary info –Positive friendly ending Bad new plan (indirect plan) –Buffer –Explanation with necessary information –Decision –Positive/friendly close

27. Persuasive - (used for selling etc.) A ttention I nterest D ecision A ction

28. Practice makes perfect Look your audience - remember body language Devise ways to reiterate your most important goals (try to vary) Create smooth transitions between sections Familiarize yourself with the equipment you will be using Prepare yourself for questions Develop your own speaking style - and let your enthusiasm show!

29. Practice really makes perfect!! If you read from a manuscript - use a lively intonation - but I wouldn’t recommend reading :-( Prepare a suitable introduction –A catchy question –Suitable background knowledge –Definitions –What the issue is

30. Rehearse, get feedback, and do it again! Prepare a closing summary Attention increases towards the end (say you are ending off!) the last words are remembered best of all Get feedback from friends/an instructor/expert, revise it, and do it again

31. PowerPoint Is available in the ubiqituous Microsoft Office Need a computer, scanner, picture editor, beamer/TV Makes “good” transparencies Make slide shows/beamer presentation Large text, graphs, pictures, tables, Animations, sounds But - you make the presentation - be professional!

32. A not-quite-so-professional presentation