In rare cases — such as when you are facing a hostile audience, you might want to start out by emphasizing where you agree with your audience, and then carefully working your way towards your most divisive, most daring claims.
Set a timer, and deliver your speech to a willing co-worker or family member, your pet fish, or the bathroom mirror.
My students are often surprised at how hard it is to fill up 3 minutes for an informal practice speech early in the term, and how hard it is to fit everything they want to say into a 10-minute formal speech later in the term.
Once you have the right amount of content, make a video recording of yourself practicing. If you plan to show a video clip, or ad-lib an explanation of a diagram, or load a website, or pass out paper handouts, or saw an assistant in half, actually do it while the camera is rolling, so that you know exactly how much time it takes.
Time it out.
If you know your conclusion takes you 90 seconds to deliver, make sure to start your conclusion when you have at least 90 seconds left.
At several key points during your speech, maybe while you are playing a video or while the audience is taking in a complex image, glance at the clock and check to see — are you on track?
If you notice you’re starting Section 3 60 seconds later than you had intended, try to make up for time by rushing through your second example in section 3 and cutting the third example in section 4, so that you still have the full 90 seconds at the end to deliver that powerful conclusion.
I once sat through a four-hour training session, during which this was all I could see of the instructor.
Go ahead and write your whole speech out so you can read robotically if you blank out, but you should practice your speech so you know it well enough that you can glance up from your notes and look at your audience as you speak.
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Pay attention to the audience, and they will pay attention to you.
Don’t try to recite from memory . If you spend your energy worrying about what you’re supposed to say next, you won’t be able to pay attention to whether the audience can hear you, or whether the overhead projections are focused.
Preparation : Set up before the audience files into their seats. If you have scheduled a presentation for a class, don’t sit in your seat like a lump while your professor calls the roll and hands out papers. Few things are more boring than watching a presenter log into the computer, fiddle with the video data projector, hunt around for the light switches, etc.
Introduction : As the audience files into their seats, have a title card displayed on the screen — or at least write your name and the title of your talk on the whiteboard. In a formal setting, usually a moderator will usually introduce you, so you won’t need to repeat everything the moderator says. Avoid canned introductions like “Principal Burch, members of the faculty, and fellow students, we are gathered here today…”
Hashtag : If it’s likely that many people in your audience use the same social media network, consider encouraging them to post their thoughts there. When you introduce yourself, give your social media handle and suggest a hashtag.
Handouts : Consider distributing handouts that present the basic facts (names, dates, timelines) and your main points. You can keep the conclusion just slightly mysterious, if you don’t want to give everything away immediately, but the idea is to free the audience from the feeling that they have to write everything down themselves. (Note: Simply printing up all the overhead slides wastes a lot of paper.)
Grabber : Grab the attention of your audience with a startling fact or claim, an inspiring quotation, or a revealing anecdote. This is not the time to try out your nightclub act; the “grabber” is not just comic relief, it also helps you set up the problem that you are going to address. If the audience will be diverse and general, you can use the “grabber” as a metaphor, helping the audience see why the topic is so important to you, and how it might be important to them, too. If your audience shares your technical specialty, and thus needs no special introduction to the topic, feel free simply to state your purpose without much to-do; but bear in mind that even technical audiences don’t want to be bored.
Road Map : Once you have established the problem or the main point of your talk, let the audience know how you are going to get to a solution. You might put up a series of questions on a slide, then as your talk progresses, proceed to answer each one. You might break each question down into a series of smaller questions, and answer each one of these in turn. Each time you finish a subsection, return to the road map, to help your audience keep track of where you have been and where you are going.
Conclusion : To give your presentation closure, return to the “grabber”, and extend it, modify it, or otherwise use it to help drive home your main point. Recap your main points, and demonstrate how they all fit together into a thought that the audience members can take with them.
Don’t read word-for-word with your nose buried in a stack of papers . If you bother to show up to hear a person speak, how do you feel when the speaker mumbles through page after page of written text? Do you feel you should have just asked for a copy of the paper in the mail?
When you present, make every effort to include your audience; after all, they are the reason you are speaking in the first place.
If you do feel that you must write out your speech word-for-word, you should be familiar enough with it that you don’t need to look at the paper all the time. (And hold the page up when you glance at it, rather than bending down to look at it.)
Your slides should present an (not just the bare framework) of your talk. If you begin with a slide that lists a series of topics or questions, your audience will expect the rest of your talk to work through that list in more detail (just as this web page began with a list of tips, then followed up with details about each tip.) If each page throws up more lists, your talk will seem random. Larry Lessig (an ethicist, open-source culture activist, and politician) has developed a very sparse PowerPoint style that assists his spoken voice. His slides sometimes contain just a single word, and he times the slides so that the written words (and occasional images) emphasize the spoken words. (See: |
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A slide that simply presents the bare structure of your talk is pointless. Rather than a slide labeled “Introduction,” ask a question that actually introduces some idea. Rather than a slide labeled “Case Study 1,” give a startling fact from the case study. |
Cluttered and wordy slides can be overwhelming. | |
People can read faster than you can speak, so don’t bore the audience by reading a slide full of text word-for-word. By the time you get to the end of the slide, we will already probably be liking cat pictures on Instagram. |
Spinning and bouncing text impresses nobody (and fools nobody). The people in your audience probably see dozens of slide shows every month. They want to evaluate your ideas. Proving that you can select a cool transition from a drop-down list is not going to earn you any points or win you a contract. |
To help pace yourself, at the top of each page of your notes, write down what time it should be ; as you turn each page, you can glance at the clock and see whether you are on track.
(The first time I gave this advice to a technical writing class, I mimed the action of “looking at the clock” — and noticed that I was running ten minutes behind, eating into time that I had promised to a student for an in-class testing session. That was a rather humbling experience!)
See the “preparation” section above. If you have already practiced your speech and timed out the various sections, you’ll know whether you are running long. If you are, don’t talk faster — cut something that you already marked out as optional.
Decide in advance which examples, which anecdotes, which subsections you can drop, without damaging the whole presentation.
I was at a conference in 1998 where the first speaker talked for 40 minutes — double her allotted time. (Why the moderator allowed this is a mystery to me.)
The benefits include:
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Is that the topic you were assigned? Are you taking a public speaking class, a child development class, a class in writing personal memoirs, or are you learning English as a second language? I don’t know how your instructor will evaluate your work, so I am not sure how to help.
You might find it useful to look at this handout on writing personal essays. http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/creative1/personal-essays/
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i have a question i am supposed to give a speech but it has to have a power point or a drama thing the only problem is that i can’t have a power point because it won’t work into my speech and neither will a drama thing what should i do?
I suggest you talk to whoever set up the requirement for a slideshow/drama component. Maybe there is some flexibility, or maybe you’ll find a way to work that component into your speech.
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I have to do a presentation about “Importance of learning English”. There are 6 people in my group including myself. The presentation has to be exactly 8 minutes. We can’t use PowerPoint. Can you give us any unique, memorable and creative idea?
What are some lessons or life experiences that you find unique and memorable? I’d probably do a play, with a character who gets into trouble because he/she doesn’t know English, and then has a chance to correct those problems by demonstrating how learning English can fix the problems.
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This may help: http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/creative1/showing/
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In the course of your career as a scientist, you will be asked to give brief presentations -- to colleagues, lab groups, and in other venues. We have put together a series of short videos to help you organize and deliver a crisp 10-15 minute scientific presentation.
First is a two part set of videos that walks you through organizing a presentation.
Part 1 - Creating an Introduction for a 10-15 Minute Scientfic Presentation
Part 2 - Creating the Body of a 10-15 Minute Presentation: Design/Methods; Data Results, Conclusions
Two additional videos should prove useful:
Designing PowerPoint Slides for a Scientific Presentation walks you through the key principles in designing powerful, easy to read slides.
Delivering a Presentation provides tips and approaches to help you put your best foot forward when you stand up in front of a group.
Other resources include:
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KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION (President and CEO: Fumiyuki Kanai, Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan) will sponsor the 85th JSAP Autumn Meeting 2024. This meeting will take place in hybrid format, at Toki Messe and two other venues in Niigata, Japan and online, over five days from Monday, September 16 to Friday, September 20.
Originating from the journal Oyo Buturi (Applied Physics), first published in 1932, the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) is an academic society connecting science and physics with engineering and the industry. JSAP has been actively engaging in academic activities, working on different front-line issues and interdisciplinary subjects in different periods which come up in areas common to engineering and physics, such as semiconductors, optical and quantum electronics, and new materials.
Four groups from KOKUSAI ELECTRIC and its joint research partners will give oral presentations.
Toshiya Hirai, Manabu Kano (1. KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, 2. Kyoto University) | ||
Tomoya Nagahashi, Yuki Yoshimoto, Hajime Karasawa (1. KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION) | ||
Yuki Yoshimoto, Wen-Hsin Chang, Toshifumi Irisawa, Tatsuro Maeda (1. AIST, 2. KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION) | ||
Wenjin Zhang, Hiroshi Nakajo, Soma Aoki, Yuto Urano, Takahiko Endo, Yusuke Nakanishi, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Toshiaki Kato, Ryo Kitaura, Yasumitsu Miyata (1. Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2. Tohoku University, 3. Tohoku University AIMR , 4. KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, 5. NIMS) |
Monday, September 16 – Friday, September 20, 2024
Toki Messe, two other venues, and online
The 85th JSAP Autumn Meeting 2024Official Website
Under the corporate slogan "Technology & Tai-wa for Tomorrow," we will pursue economic, environmental, and social values from both business and ESG (resolving environmental and social issues and strengthening governance) aspects, with the aim of contributing to the achievement of SDGs and realizing a sustainable society and our group’s sustainable development.
With dr. jessica o'hara, more details about your recorded oral presentation.
Creating a Voice Thread Recording
To create your video, go to the Voice Thread sidebar on Canvas for your section. You can “Go to VT Home” as one of the sidebar options once inside Voice Thread. If you click ‘browse,” you can view tutorials. You can create your video by hitting “Add your own” or simply “create.” Remember to first upload all of your assets (PowerPoints, links, etc) and then arrange them as you see fit. Then, using the “comment” function available as a semi-circle near the bottom in the middle of the screen, select the video camera option, and record yourself delivering your speech. Make sure you save and share to your section when you are satisfied with the video you have created.
RECORDING YOUR VIDEO Stand up or sit tall so that the top half of your body can clearly be seen. We want to see you gesture. Choose a flattering angle to record yourself and make sure the lighting is decent. Be sure there are no distracting sounds or visuals in the room. Speak at a good volume and be sure to look at the green light on your laptop. Use printed out or hand written notes. Don’t try to read off the computer screen. You will look super creepy and strange. It doesn’t work! Vary your vocal performance (tone, volume, speed).
Do it all in one take (but of course you can save your best–or best versions!)
What if Voice Thread glitches for you? Use Zoom:
WHAT SHOULD GO ON YOUR SLIDE(S)? The less text, the better. Using a single slide is helpful for analyzing artifacts with visual elements (remember “This is the Enemy” speech). Screen-shot slides can help with an analysis of videos (consider the iPhone commercial analysis) Speeches as artifacts with slides of direct quotes are particularly effective Try to keep you slides uncluttered and mostly visual. You don’t want the slides to merely be a written version of what you are saying.
Speech citation practices:
Each image used should have an attribution somewhere on or near the image/slide, like this: “Source: RCL.” or “Source: personal photo.”
Use Oral Citation and Attribution to give credit to your artifact creator and any outside sources you use in your speech. E.g. “According to the World Wildlife Fund’s 2o21 Annual Report, …”
On its own slide at the end, include an MLA Works Cited page. Format your artifact as a Works Cited entry and other outside sources you orally cited in your speech.
Civic Artifact Speech Goals and Criteria for Evaluation
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