Week Three Using computers-Presentation strategies 24/8/07

There are a few different types of presentations some of these are a written presentation such as an essay report or paper, self contained presentation on a CD-ROM, video or web page and a oral presentation where you stand in front of a class and do a speech about what you have written. At university you will be asked to give a number of these. There are three points to a speech introduction, body and conclusion. In the intro there are six main components attention getter's, the thesis, audience adaption, credibility statement, preview and transition to the body. The body has the main ideas and references to outside research so your pretty much putting out your argument to the audience. The conclusion reasserts and reinforces the thesis and leaves the reader with the most important ides to remember. When giving a speech on average the audience will only absorb the first 8 minutes so it is important to try and get the audiences attention as much as possible and to have a clearly structures speech as not to confuse them.

When using audiovisual, make sure your information is clear and concise and in reasonably large font so that if people are sitting far away they can still see. If using a projector make sure there is one at the venue. Rehearse your presentation so you know whats coming up next and you don't get confused. Make sure you keep a back up of your working properly in case something goes wrong. Try out your presentation at the venue before hand to make sure everything is working properly. When using power point don't just read what is on the slides make it interesting use the slides as a summary of what you have talked about. Don't use crazy pictures that don't go with what you are talking about keep your theme consistent throughout the presentation.

My top five ways of giving a good presentation are getting your audience involved by asking them questions to keep them listening, use props as examples, make eye contact with the audience, don't be afraid to ad. lib. and most importantly rehearse your presentation so that it doesn't come out in a jumbled mess.