LFS:Workshops/Next Level Presenting
Your presentation style
- What are your strengths
- What are your weaknesses?
- What tools do you like to use?
- Powerpoint, Keynote, Prezi, freestyle
- Why we use wiki
Planning your presentation
Hook & storyline
- The value of the hook. What makes a good one?
- A whole collection of hooks: U21 3MT 2015 videos
- Creating a beginning, middle & end
3 Minute Thesis guidelines
- What is the 3 Minute Thesis
- Text, if used, should be ≥24 pt font (Calibri or Arial)
- Use public domain or your own image(s)
- Get written (email is fine) permission for all other image use
Anticipating your audience
- Gauging the level of the audience
- What do they care about?
- How do I adjust my talk to present to them?
- What am I hoping to convey?
- What do I need to define?
- Are there key concepts that need to be repeated?
Remote & Group work
- Find a moderator/back channel
- Work in breaks to check chat for questions
- Test out AV
- Talk through any AV issues or processes, narrate what you’re doing
- Check how you look and sound on screen
- virtual background
Presenting in a Group
- Find a moderator/back channel
- The moderator is like a director
- Have one person with stable connection has the presentation, “slide jockey”
- Backup options for materials
- Avoid distractions, delegate
- Build capacity in your team, with specific tasks
Design principles and aesthetics
- How many words on the slide?
- What font when?
- Cluttered vs. simple? Any tips?
Pecha Kucha
- Importance of visual continuity
- Using your own photos or sourcing other people's photos
- Original imagery
- Clip art / stock photography can take away from your presentation
Copyright, images and figures
- What can I use in my presentation (in class and out)?
- What can I use if the conference wants to post my presentation?
- What about if I am being recorded?
- Finding Images
- Specific questions? UBC's Copyright office
- Resolution of images?
- What is the right size for projecting? For printing?
- Playing movies. Are there issues?
- Playing a youtube clip.
- Playing a movie on someone else's computer
- Audio output. Can the conference accommodate audio?
Value of practicing
- What to do when something goes wrong?
- Printing out your notes
- Have an intro ready to go
- Is there anything I can do about my nervous habits?
- Timing & pacing
Good Habits
- Getting ready
- Vocal exercises
- The value of power poses
- Repeat the questions
- Was it a "really great question"?
- Have slides ready for sharing slideshare, twitter & posting email address
A/V setup
- Displays
- VGA, DVI, USB-C & HDMI (TMI?)
- Practice
- Fitting it all in on the screen
Post talk opportunities
- Where do I go next with this talk?
- What can be reused?
- Remote presentations
- Youtube
- Camtasia to record lectures
- Slideshare
- Other technologies
- Social media
What do I present if I don't have perfect data (or any data)?
- Present on the goal, rather than the results
What is the future of presentations?
- Infographics
- Remote Lectures
- Visualisations
- Screencasts
Going Beyond
- Figure Making Course
- Flowing Data
- Points of View - Nature Methods
- Resonate
- Presentation Zen
- Visual Analytics (viva-viva)
- ESRI Storymaps
- Tableau
- Brewers Pallettes
- Our Follow on Workshop (first presented Sep 14, 2016)