THIS SESSION IS FULL!!!

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• THIS SESSION IS FULL!!!
• PLEASE MOVE TO THE CENTER OF YOUR ROW
• PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE ANY EMPTY SEATS BETWEEN YOU
  AND YOUR NEIGHBOR

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• PLEASE COMPLETE THE PRE-SURVEY
• (The green form)
• Keep the pencil for the remainder
• of the day!

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Vic Lechtenberg

• Acting Executive Vice President for
• Academic Affairs and Provost

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David Nelson

• Associate Director,
• Center for Instructional Excellence

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Chantal Levesque-Bristol

• Director, Center for Instructional Excellence
• Professor, Educational Studies

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Presentation Techniques
Dr. Pete Bill Director of Veterinary
Technology College of Veterinary Medicine
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Preparing and Organizing
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Before you give your presentation

• Set CLEAR goals (objectives) for what you want to
  accomplish
• Give an overview at the beginning of your
  presentation
• Keep your presentation focused on these goals
• These goals constitute your summary points also!

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Before you give your presentation

• Organize your lecture
• Using an outline helps
• Go from simple to complex
• Move from concrete to abstract
• If you have tangents, always bring it back to
  your main points

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The Delivery
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During your presentation

• Utilize Attention techniques initially
• Pose a question
• Do a demonstration
• Raise a moral or ethical concern
• Describe a situation or scenario

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During your presentation

• Intersperse Attention techniques during
  presentation
• Change pace or inflection
• Use the well-placed pause
• Switch modes of presentation (e.g., 2 minute buzz
  session)

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Use of Humor

• Thin line between being humorous
  and being offensive, sarcastic,
  condescending, or politically incorrect.
• Dont use politics, religion, ethical
  issues as topics for humor.
• Its safe to use yourself as a foil
• Self-deprecating humor is okay as long as you
  dont appear to be wanting pity
• Dont wait for laughter to your humor keep
  right on going!

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Other Tips

• Get out from behind the lectern
• Get familiar with the microphone
• Change direction of your voice
  (increases attentiveness)
• Use hand motions to punctuate key points, but
  dont wave, gesture randomly
• Make eye contact with the audience
• Smile, be sincere, be enthusiastic but dont be
  phony

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Using Media
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Rules to remember

1. Media doesnt teach, you do
2. Media should not distract attention from where
   you want the students to focus
3. Select a medium with which you are comfortable
   (chalk board is okay!)
4. When in doubt, keep it simple so your message is
   not lost

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Fonts

• No more than 2 font styles per presentation
  please!
• Avoid wild and crazy fonts (same for bullets)

Times New Roman
Arial Narrow Font
Arial Font
Arial Font Bold
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Fonts Size

• 16 pt. lowercase
• 18 pt. lowercase
• 20 pt. lowercase
• 22 pt. lowercase
• 24 pt. lowercase
• 28 pt. lowercase
• 32 pt. lowercase
• 36 pt. lowercase
• 40 pt. lowercase
• 44 pt. lowercase

Body of text
Titles
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Font Color Background Color

• Provide appropriate contrast between font and
  background using color and brightness

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Background Patterns
Avoid patterns! Changes in background color or
white/dark background can cause loss of contrast!
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Background Patterns
Avoid patterns! Changes in background color or
white/dark background can cause loss of contrast!
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Background Patterns
Avoid patterns! Changes in background color or
white/dark background can cause loss of contrast!
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Use of Pictures

1. Make sure the picture is relevant to your
   presentation
2. Realize the cute or humorous pictures will
   shift the attention of your audience

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Use of Pictures

1. Make sure the picture is relevant to your
   presentation
2. Realize the cute or humorous pictures will
   shift the attention of your audience
3. Detailed photograph or image versus simple diagram

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Expert
Novice
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Animations, Slide Transitions, Sounds

• Often used because they are fun
• Too often are distracting
• Repeated use becomes annoying
• First time hear sound interesting
• Second time hear it okay
• Third time really annoying

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Animations can be effective in helping pace the
audience

1. Point 1
2. Point 2
3. Point 3

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Use a Wireless mouse

• Logitech Presenter

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• white screen

black screen
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Remember

• No one knows what you
  are intending to do or say
  so you have freedom to
  improvise
• Or, if you screw up and leave something out, no
  one is going to know
• EVERYONE gets nervous before speaking
  EVERYONE!! Its normal!
• Good preparation decreases anxiety.

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David Nelson
Creating an Optimal Learning Environment

• Associate Director,
• Center for Instructional Excellence

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CREATING AN OPTIMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

• TO DO IT, YOU HAVE TO
• know the mandates
• use the guidelines

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SPECIFIED MANDATES
CREATING AN OPTIMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

• DISABILITIES
• HARRASSMENT / DISCRIMINATION
• PRIVACY

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DISABILITIES
CREATING AN OPTIMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

• Mandate Section 504, Rehabilitation Act of 1973
  Title II of the Americans with Disabilities
  Act, 1990
• Prohibits discrimination based on disabilities,
  i.e., denial of academic adjustments.

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DISABILITIES
CREATING AN OPTIMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

• Public entity shall make reasonable
  modifications.. unless it can demonstrate that
  the modifications would fundamentally alter the
  nature of the service, program or activity.

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DISABILITIES
CREATING AN OPTIMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

• Guidelines
• Making reasonable accommodations does not mean
  giving unfair advantage to some
• Treating all students the same is not necessarily
  treating them fairly
• Fair means leveling the playing field, so that
  students have an equal opportunity to learn.

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CAMPUS CONNECTIONS
CREATING AN OPTIMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

• Center for Instructional Excellence Website
  http//www.purdue.edu/cie
• Office of Dean of Students Disability Resource
  Center Website http//www.purdue.edu/ODOS

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DISCRIMINATION
CREATING AN OPTIMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

• Mandates Title VI Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Title IX Education Amendments of 1972
• Prohibit discrimination based on sex, race,
  color, national origin, sexual orientation,
  marital status, age, parenting status, pregnancy,
  campus team membership, etc.

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DISCRIMINATION
CREATING AN OPTIMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

• Guidelines
• Dont create or condone a sexually, racially,
  etc. hostile environment
• Remember that harassment is a form of
  discrimination

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DISCRIMINATION
CREATING AN OPTIMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

• Be knowledgeable with examples
• unwanted Sexual, etc., gestures, touches and
  advances
• Racial, etc., stories and dirty jokes
• Sexually, racially, etc., explicit drawings,
  posters, written materials
• Allowing age, sexuality, etc., explicit classroom
  comments

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DISCRIMINATION PREVENTION
CREATING AN OPTIMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

• Know what it is
• Ask respected colleagues when unsure
• Dont do it
• Dont allow it
• Take action against it once it occurs

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RIGHT TO PRIVACY
CREATING AN OPTIMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

• Mandate Family Educational Rights and Privacy
  Act (FERPA) of 1974
• Protects the privacy of student education records
• It is the right of students to have restricted,
  the disclosure of personally identifiable
  educational records

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RIGHT TO PRIVACY
CREATING AN OPTIMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

• Guidelines
• Do not use student names, e-mail addresses, or
  SSNs when posting grades
• Do not transmit confidential information over
  email
• Do not draw attention to individual grades

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MANDATES SUMMARIZED
CREATING AN OPTIMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

• DISABILITIES
• HARRASSMENT / DISCRIMINATION
• PRIVACY

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CREATING AN OPTIMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
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