Wednesday, March 16, 2011

8 Ways To Give a Good Presentation

Energy- Most of us prefer to watch a presentation where the speaker is clearly making an effort to connect with the audience. Energy comes out a vocal variety, gestures, and facial expressions helping you show passion and gain positive listener response. Energy is also a great mask effectively covering up nervousness and other distractions.




Eye Contact- maintain eye contact with individual audience members long enough to complete you thought (3-5 seconds), rather than shifting your gaze from side to side.



Hand Gestures- use natural movements of your arms, hands and body to emphasize your mainpoints. Aviod actions such as crossing arms or putting your hands on your hips.



Facial Expressions- Use smiles, frowns, and other varied expressions to keep your audience engaged. Take tips from stage actors: the bigger the audience the bigger your expressions.



Movement- walk around the stage! Please don't stand still. It isn't natural for humans to be statues.



Nonwords- "like, ummmm...., uhhh" it shows the audience that you did not practice.



Speaking pace/volume- not to fast, not to slow....speak as clear as you can



Pauses- no longer than 5 seconds. think about dramatic pauses to gain the audience’s attention.


Each category you will be scored with stars, one - four, four being Outstanding and one needing improvement.

The total assignment will be a total of 1000 points, 200 for the presentation 200 for your brochure, 200 for your poster, 200 for your gameboard,  200 for your persuasiveness.

Turn in 6 page packet on Explorer Unit

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