Oral Presentation

2021

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 Administrative Stuff

• Assignment 4 – Oral presentation

• Sign up sheet for individual presentation will be posted in the
coming days
• Look for announcement in our course shell
• Make sure your topic is not the same as someone else, so sign
up early.
• Rubric for oral presentation posted

Please sign up as soon as possible

 Class Agenda
• Types of oral presentations.
• Parts of oral presentation.
• Types of visual aids.
• Rehearsal
• Words to avoid
• Microphones/lighting
• Team based presentations
• Videos

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What types of oral presentation do you
know of?

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 Types of Oral Presentations

• Workshops, seminars, and training sessions

• Staff meetings
• Talks given to clubs, organizations, and societies
• Sales presentations
• Speeches
• Oral reports or briefings (one-to-one)

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 Audience and Situation Analysis
• Consider the following elements about your
audience:
– Why are they there?
– What is the attitude towards the subject ?
– What is your role or relationship to the audience?
– Does the audience have a prior knowledge of the topic?
– What is the demographic make up?

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 Three Parts to a Presentation
• Your presentation should include three to five key ideas
• Introduction
– Identify yourself and your credibility.
– Grab audiences' attention. • Bridge
– Preview the main points.
– Open with a unique fact or a question. • Objective
• Body • Pre-test
– Explain, persuade, and inform • Participation
the audience.
• Post-test
• Conclusion
– Summarize your main material. • Summary
– Restate the main ideas.
– Put forth a challenge or “call to action.”

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 Types of Visual Aids

• Chalkboard, Whiteboard, Blank Flip Charts

– Advantage:
• Small audience <30
– Disadvantages:
• Difficult and messy
• You could end up speaking into the board/chart

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 Types of Visual Aids
• Prepared Flip Charts and Posters
– Advantages:
• Good for complex information
• Medium audience <50
– Disadvantages
• Low tech
• Often looks unprofessional
• Can’t add to it

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 Types of Visual Aids

• Videos, Films, Models, and Samples

– Advantages:
• Reinforce ideas/concepts
• Easy to demonstrate and manipulate
– Disadvantage:
• Can easily take over focus

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 Types of Visual Aids

• Handouts
– Distribute before or after but not during
• Multimedia and Computer Visuals
– Slideshow
– Paper
– Transparencies/35mm slides

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 Tips for PowerPoint

• Use templates.
• Keep the slides simple.
• Use titles.
• Create an “agenda” slide.
• Use transitions and animations sparingly.
• Provide paper copies (for editing and handouts).
• Rehearse.
 Death by PowerPoint

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpvgfmEU2Ck

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 Delivery Methods

• Manuscript
– Maintain eye contact with the audience.
– The manuscript should be written with large
font, double spaced, and stapled (?) so that
it is easy to refer to and easy to keep
organized.

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 Rehearsing

• Practice (out loud, on location, with aids).

• Review your timing.
• Master the material.
• Record yourself (audio or video).
• Get to know your setting and equipment.
• Use stress reduction techniques and visualization
techniques to relax.

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 At the Presentation

• Don’t use long sentences and big words.

• Don’t use slang or bad grammar.
• Don’t use “um,” “ah,” or “like.”
• Don’t shout.
• Don’t speed up just to finish.
• Don’t stand rigidly.
• Don’t just stop talking and walk away at the end.
• Don’t rock back and forth

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Avoid the following “filler” or overused words
• like
• whatever
• and stuff
• the A-list:
– actually,
– awesome,
– amazing,
– absolutely
• so....and so....and so
• to be honest
• to be clear
• basically
• totally
• um, uh
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 Vocal fry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_LmC-ynqGM

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 Microphones/Lighting
• Get better audio than video
• Avoid omni-directional mic
• Frequency Response – How low a mic can pic up
sound. Lower the better for bass (look for 40Hz)
• Sound Pressure Level (SPL) – How loud can the mic
pick up sound. 120db SPL is a good starting point
(higher the better)
• If recording, do it in a small room or place a bowl
around the mic
• Use as much (natural) light as possible for video
• Make sure your background is simple/clean
• Center yourself and be in the upper half of video
• Look into the camera
• MAKE SURE EVERYTHING WORKS!!!
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 Team-Based Presentations
• Pros and Cons
– Pro: enhances scope and complexity
– Pro: less stress
– Con: requires extra coordination and planning
• Tips
– Make sure everyone knows what the goal is
– Establish ground rules.
– Create plans, timetables, and leaders.
– Practice, practice, practice

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 Improving Team Based Presentation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHZYqKdZ7PA
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 Video
• Public speaking
– Look for anything distracting
• Public speaking mistakes

Source: http://www.ehow.com/video_4959559_public-speaking-tips-delivering-great.html

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