Planning your presentation

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Planning your presentation

• Know your limits
• what is the level of audience?
• how much time do you have?
• what is your presentation goal?
• Do your homework
• research background info as much as possible
• other papers cited by main article
• review articles
• web sites
• define new words
• define new techniques

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Planning your presentation

• Decide your approach
• what do you really want audience to learn?
• how much background will they need?
• how do you want to lead them to the conclusion?
• Gather your materials
• background info
• outline
• figures - choose save from online article
• software

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Using PowerPoint

• launch PowerPoint
• choose a title slide layout
• set up slide Masters
• View menu gt Master gt
• choose a background design
• Format menu gt Slide Design
• customize fonts and other elements
• add any desired permanent graphics
• choose another slide layout Insert gt New Slide
• begin inputting text

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Using PowerPoint

• use PowerPoint drawing tools to make illustrations

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Using PowerPoint

• insert figures saved from article

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Using PowerPoint

• insert other images from web sources or scans
• Google image search
• be careful of file size
• modify image by using PowerPoint tools that crop
  or rotate, adjust color or contrast, etc.
• for more extreme modification of image, use a
  graphics program (PhotoShop, etc.)

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Using PowerPoint

• animation is the power in PowerPoint
• note that if there is a lot of text
• your audience will spend all their time
• reading it rather than listening to you
• by using animation, you can control
• what they focus upon

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Using PowerPoint

• Important tips
• animate your presentation for maximum effect
• use your own words as much as possible
• keep text sparse
• use color to highlight key text
• dont crowd slides
• a picture is worth a million words
• label images

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Using PowerPoint

• typical outline for a presentation based on
  research article
• title
• the research question
• what audience needs to know about the system
• experiment 1
• the question being investigated
• the technique used
• the results
• what it all means
• experiment 2.etc.
• my conclusions
• future research into this topic

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Doing the presentation

• practice your talk
• print out the slides
• have outlined notes or notecards
• practice looking at audience - not screen - while
  speaking
• time your presentation (leave time for QA)
• check PowerPoint version in actual classroom
  computer
• is the text legible?
• do the images have impact?
• is the slide over-crowded?
• do the animations work?
• would it make sense to the audience?
• do you conclude with a take-home lesson?