Presentation Skills

Presentation Skills CS 160 Section With your TA, Wai-ling Ho-Ching

Motivation     

Design Meetings Presentations for Management Conference Presentations Presentations for this class Teaching section – one day this could be you! 2

Motivation 

People will judge you and your ideas based on your ability to communicate! 

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7/93 % Rule

In school: Evaluation is mostly paperbased Out there: It’s the reverse… The Good News: These skills can be practiced 3

Overview

(Voice, body, visuals, content)

Friends, Romans, countrymen LEND me your ears….

Julius’ Eulogy •Who •Friends •Romans •Countrymen •What •Lend ears 4

Body   

Stance Dress Facial Expression Pleasant grin

Clean-cut, pleasant dress

Firmly planted feet, square with shoulders 5

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Stance Dress Facial Expression

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Gestures

Aim here for optimal gesticulation

Avoid The “Flipper” Zone 6

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 Gestures Stance  Eye contact Dress Facial Expression The 4 Quadrant Method

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Voice “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; ”

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Voice “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; ” •

Voice projection

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Voice “Friends, Romans, countrymen, LEND me your ears; I come to BURY Caesar, NOT to PRAISE him. The EVIL that men do lives AFTER them; ” • • • • •

Voice projection Meaningful Pauses Pitch Consonants, Vowels Speak S L O W L Y …. 10

Visuals   

Whiteboard Handouts Powerpoint

Friends, Romans, countrymen LEND me your ears….

Julius’ Eulogy •Who •Friends •Romans •Countrymen •What •Lend ears 11

Visuals 

Use diagrams when possible   

Communication (easier to understand, more potent) Spatial memory Impact (less cognitive, more visceral)

Elements of Dynamic Delivery   

55% Body Language 38% Voice 7% Content

Elements of Dynamic Delivery 55% Body Language

7% Content 38% Voice

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Visuals 

Picture how your slides will look when blown up and projected    

Font sizes Image resolution Size of text on screenshots Room lighting

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Practice Do a dress rehearsal. Try to simulate the real thing. Many things can go wrong:  On your own laptop 

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The room 

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Video output from the computer, sound output, volume, proper lighting, noise

Using a computer other than your own 

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Power save mode, laptops auto-sleeping during presentations

Powerpoint replaces bullets and fonts with random ones, demos stop working (see below)

Demos   

Failing because they required the network, Internet, a particular version of an OS, random dll’s that are missing, video card settings… Files disappearing Just plain crashing

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Practice!!

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Evaluation 

What has been good? 

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What has been bad? What would you like to do our our remaining sections? 

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choice of activities, topics, style of teaching, grading, more structure, less structure in section, section material too “fluffy”?

Ideas: CHI Videos, HCI Research, Other HCI topics, more discussion of homework, discussion of lecture material, groupware, assistive technologies

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