Thanks to everyone for coming along so well prepared today for the practice presentations. And thanks for your evaluations at the end – although many of you were very hard on yourself I think. Anyway, I’ve put together some general points about strengths and things to work on. Not all of them will apply to everyone, but some will be relevant to you …
Strengths of practice presentations
In-depth knowledge of topics
Good introductions
Great use of a preview slide (list of topics that you will talk about)
Some excellent use of visual aids/pictures
Some folk got the right balance of text and images
Tone – sounding interested/passionate about topic
Things to work on …
Open up body and eyes to whole audience and avoid directing presentation to screen/board
As a general rule, the less text the better
Watch out for clashes in text colour and images underneath
Be careful with timings of animation
Explain and talk about images and graphics
Think about recapping or summing up – your last couple of slides …
Since everyone produced a PowerPoint, then obviously everyone did plan their presentation. However, some folk, in their written evaluation admitted that they could have planned a bit more. Nothing beats standing up at home and going through the whole thing – particularly if you can get someone whose opinion you trust to sit through it and make some, helpful, comments at the end.
Again, thanks for your work today. I, for one, learned a lot.
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