PUBLIC SPEAKING & VISUAL AIDSProfessor Castillo

Abdelmalek Essaadi University Department of English

Fall 2017

QUESTION OF THE DAY

➤ Think of what you consider a good presentation. What made it “good?”

PRESENTATIONS

➤ When do you give presentations?

➤ Why do you give presentations?

➤ Types of Presentations?

PREPARING YOUR PRESENTATION

➤ Audience – who are you presenting to?

➤ Children? Peers? Professionals? A potential employer?

➤ Content – what do you want your audience to remember?

➤ What are your main points?

➤ Language

➤ How formal is the presentation?

➤ Are there words related to your topic the audience might not understand?

ORGANIZING YOUR PRESENTATION

➤ Organize your presentation like you would a piece of writing

➤ Make an outline

➤ Share that outline with the audience at the beginning so they know what to expect

➤ Keeps your presentation clear and easy to follow

➤ Presentations have the same structure as essays: a beginning, middle, and an end.

➤ Make sure one topic leads to the next and use transitions to help things move smoothly

PREPARING YOUR PRESENTATION

➤ Don’t memorize!

➤ Instead, say your presentation out loud or in your mind and write down some key phrases and sentences

➤ Create cue cards for your reference

➤ Put bullet points of main points or things that are hard to remember

➤ Don’t write out everything or you will end up just reading your presentation

➤ Practice!

➤ Practice!

➤ Practice!

➤ Practice your presentation at least 3 times even if you are alone

Use visuals to enhance your visual message, not distract from it…

THE PURPOSE OF VISUAL AIDS: Making it all more interesting for your audience...

USING VISUAL AIDS

➤ Use words, sentences, symbols, graphs, charts, symbols, pictures, etc.

➤ Support your message – use them for a reason

➤ Focus on one idea per visual

➤ Set the tone with the use of colors and images

➤ Make sure they are legible to the most distant viewer

➤ Use colors that complement each other

➤ ex. No yellow on white

➤ Support your ideas and the flow of your presentation

➤ Change backgrounds to change pace

➤ Change backgrounds to introduce a new topic

TYPES OF VISUAL AIDS

➤ PowerPoints

➤ Whiteboard/Blackboard

➤ Paper & Poster

➤ Maps, photographs, drawings, diagrams, graphs, charts, text visuals

➤ “Realia”

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➤ Your body/self

➤ assistants/other people in the room

➤ Objects

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➤ Audio/ Video

TROUBLESHOOTING AND PLANNING FOR THE WORST CASE SCENARIO IS KEY WHEN DEALING WITH TECHNOLOGY

POWERPOINT GUIDELINES

➤ You don’t want to write in sentences on your PowerPoint slides. You don’t want to write out everything you are going to say on each slide. You don’t want to have one giant paragraph that you are just going to read off your slide when it comes up because it is hard to follow and you will lose your listeners before you even get halfway through it because they will be trying to read the slide that you are reading to them and they will not be paying attention to what you are saying.

POWERPOINT GUIDELINES

➤ Use 18 point font or larger on a Power Point

➤ Limit the number of words per line (6 or 7 maximum)

➤ Choose your font carefully

➤ Fonts tell the listeners something about you:

➤ Times New Roman is formal.

➤ Zapfino writing is hard to read

POWERPOINT GUIDELINES

➤ Keep everything simple:

➤ Colors

➤ Animations

➤ Transitions

➤ Sound

➤ Content

➤ Pictures

➤ Keep your slides consistent

➤ Use the same fonts and colors

➤ Use the same size text

GUIDELINES CONTINUED

➤ Use Spell Check!

➤ Go to “Tools” at the top of your screen and then select “Spelling”

➤ Particularly helpful if English is not your first language…

➤ REMEMBER: You don’t have to use PowerPoint!

➤ It’s a good tool sometimes, not always.

GIVING YOUR PRESENTATION

➤ Don’t rely on your slides or your notecards!

➤ Interact with your audience

➤ Ask questions

➤ Give time at the end for them to ask you questions

➤ Make eye contact

➤ Speak loudly and clearly

➤ Don’t speak too slowly or quickly

➤ Change the loudness and pace of your voice throughout

➤ Don’t talk in monotone

GIVING YOUR PRESENTATION

➤ Be confident

➤ Move around (but not too much)

➤ Don’t get tripped up on small grammar errors or “umms”

GOOD PRESENTATION GUIDELINES

➤ Organize -

➤ Provide structure and framework to your presentation (an outline)

➤ Illustrate -

➤ Help listeners visualize – tell a story using visuals and charts

➤ Repeat -

➤ Help the audience remember the main ideas by repeating them (audiences only listen 25-50% of the time)

VIDEO

Will Stephen: “How to Sound Smart in Your TEDX Talk”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S0FDjFBj8o

VIDEO

➤ What do we notice from the video?

➤ What presentation skills does Will Stephen use?

➤ How does he portray his message?

LISTENING

➤ Listening is an active skill

➤ The three basic steps to listening are:

➤ Hearing

➤ Understanding

➤ Judging

HEARING➤ Catching what the speaker is saying

➤ Being able to repeat the facts

UNDERSTANDING

➤ Taking what you have heard and understanding it in your own way

➤ Thinking about what it means

JUDGING

➤ Evaluate what you have understood

➤ Think about if what you understood make sense

➤ Ask more questions

LISTENING STRATEGIES

➤ Listen for the main ideas

➤ Give your full attention to who is speaking

➤ Look at them

➤ Sit up straight

➤ Nod or smile to show that you are following along

➤ Ask questions and give feedback

➤ Take notes

PRESENTATION

➤ As you watch, listen.

➤ Hear, Understand, Judge

➤ Take notes and ask questions

➤ Ask, who is the audience for this presentation?

➤ Think about how well this presentation uses

➤ Language

➤ Visuals

➤ Presentation Skills

PRESENTATION

➤ Aziza Chaouni – “How I Brought a River, and My City, Back to Life”

➤ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4UFlldZuKk

HOMEWORK:

➤ Watch 3 TedTalk videos (of your choice) on YouTube. Analyze them using what we learned today. I will post a few examples on my website to help guide you.

➤ QUESTIONS TO ASK:

➤ What made it interesting or boring?

➤ What visual aids, if any, did the presenter use?

➤ What makes the presenter effective?