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How do you give a presentation?

Prepared byR. Milian

Your teacher announces,“ You will give a presentation.”

Your reaction

Fear takes over

I’ve never done one

Start sweating

World is coming to an end

Stop

Relax

Help is on the way

First, forget what people have told you about a

presentation

Why?

Everything you have been told is wrong

What a presentation is not

Pictures that have been copied and pasted to slides

Reading slides to the audience

Adding funny animations to make the presentation interesting

Bore the audience with so much information that you put them to sleep

What a presentation is …

Giving the audience an interesting idea you want them to know about in an engaging manner

You present the information to the audience, but you do not read it

You take the audience into an adventure in order to convince them or inform them

It is almost like a show

1st Step Begin writing what you know about your topic

To get ideas

To have a starting point

Putting ideas on paper

Ideas flow easily when you write

2nd rule Research your topic

Research deeply

Take you in different directions

It’s ok

Step 3 filter your idea

Main idea

I’ve got it

Step 4 organize your idea like an essay

Beginning

Introduce your idea

A Story

B Important fact

Middle

Support your idea

Give reasons

Conclusion

Summarize your main idea

Mistake #1

Creating presentation without first writing the essay

Mistake #2

Looks for the images that will go on the slides

Mistake #3

Presentation has no organization

Advice

A presentation is created from the bottom up

It is not created from the top down

Bottom up approach

Bottom up

Presentation

Practice

Organize

Essay

Filter idea

Research idea

Write

Top down

Go to computer

Use Powerpoint

Get pictures

Present

Project

Create a presentation following Milian’s guide

You get to select your topic ( science, history, art, music)

It will be an informational presentation

It will take from 3-5 minutes

What you need

Computer/internet/printer/ ink

Powerpoint/ Keynote

Library card

Motivation

Creativity

Why do I have to do this?

College

Professional career

Life skill