Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Week 3

Main points in lecture

  • There are three types of presentations and they are Self Contained Presentation, Written Presentation and Stand and Deliver.
  • Visual message is not enough on its own. Audiences will remember 10% of what they see, 25% of what they hear, 40% of what they see, hear and write down and 60% of what they experience interactively.
  • Structuring your presentation, most informative speeches have three parts: introduction, body and conclusion.
  • As a speaker, you should aim to create a clear stucture for your speech.
  • structuring your presentation.
  • Introduction there are six components of an effective introduction: Attention Getters, Thesis Statement, Audience Adaption, Credibility Statement, Preview, and Transition to the body.
  • Body, strategic organisation helps increase the clarity and effectiveness of your speech; Main Ideas, Organisational Patterns, Connective Devices and References to Outside Research.
  • conclusion should be breif and tight, but is has a few specific tasks to accomplish: Re-assert/Reinforce the thesis, Review the Main Points and Close Effectively.
  • Before giving the presentation make sure that all the equipment works like slides.
  • MS power piont, use the kiss principle (keep it simple stupid)

Workshop

In this work shop we had to create a power point presentaion.

Five points to what i gained

  • knowlege of working and using the tools in power point.
  • How to structure a presentaion.
  • The power point presentaion just highlights what is said in the speech.
  • Graphs and pictures help explain whats int the presentaion.

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