Reaching out to the community Advice for an effective presentation Lisa Jensen & Shangmei Hou

Planning & preparing an interactive presentation Tips for public speaking

Adult education learning principles Autonomous and self-directed Acknowledges experience and knowledge in the room Goal oriented Relevant Practical Demonstrates respect Knowles, 1970

Preparing an interactive presentation Give yourself time to plan Explore various options for delivery Test/pilot if you can Make yourself a guide/outline Practice Time yourself

Find a community audience Through WCHRI Stakeholders Other interested people Leverage your work for different audiences (i.e. methods vs topic) Your personal goals Outside the box…

Engage that audience Know your audience and tailor your presentation Consider a two-way dialogue Allow them to connect your work to their lives Keep it clear and focused Take advantage of multiple ways to explore concepts

Focus your topic Doesn’t need to Shouldn’t be everything you’ve ever done Have a SOCO (Single Overriding Communication Objective) Obvious structure to help people follow along and connect the dots A series of presentations? A snapshot? A summary? An overview? NOT YOUR ENTIRE THESIS

Technical concepts Review your language + key terms What are critical concepts? How can you say it more simply? Will pictures/diagrams/graphs/infographics help with understanding? Paraphrase/metaphor Use examples Clearly define terms when used

I love talking, but… Be a facilitator Explore adding: Video Activities Lists Games Quizzes Questions Discussion groups

Community Presentations Take some chances! PLAN and PREPARE Focus on your audience Seek out opportunities to practice Find your own presentation style Have fun!

Planning & organizing an interactive presentation Tips for public speaking

Public speaking Before your speech During your speech PowerPoints

Structure your presentation Tell them what you’re going to say Tell them Tell them what you’ve said For the entire presentation as well as individual points

Opening Body Conclusion The sandwich Opening Body Conclusion

Opening Introduce topic, hypothesis & relevance List supporting points Establish connection

Tell a story Ask a question Statistics Images A memorable opening Tell a story Ask a question Statistics Images

Dengue virus in the blood https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-09-global-consortium-rewrites-cartography-dengue.html

Supporting point #1 ………………………….#2 ………………………….#3 Body Experiment #1 Objective Method Data Supporting point #1 ………………………….#2 ………………………….#3

Conclusion Recap main points Summarize core message Call-to-action or future directions

Public speaking Before your speech During your speech PowerPoints

Enunciate clearly Don't speak too fast Control nervousness Remember to: Enunciate clearly Don't speak too fast Control nervousness

How to reduce nervousness It can be controlled Avoid the little bad habits Practice, practice, practice

Listen to yourself Pause Practice Avoid filler words Listen to yourself Pause Practice

Use vocal variety: the V3Ps Volume Pitch Pace Pause

Use vocal variety: the V3Ps Volume Pitch Pace Pause

Use vocal variety: the V3Ps Volume Pitch Pace Pause SLOW FAST

Use vocal variety: the V3Ps Volume Pitch Pace Pause

Body language Eye contact Put verbs in to action Move around stage Control mannerisms

Public speaking Before your speech During your speech PowerPoints

Show only what you will talk about First of all… Show only what you will talk about

Visible size Be consistent Use emphasis appropriately Keep text simple Font Visible size Be consistent Use emphasis appropriately Keep text simple

Text Use image or graphs Initially, dengue was endemic in Latin Americas, South-East Asia, Western Pacific and Africa More recently, it has spread to the U.S. and European nations Currently, more than 100 countries have dengue transmission where it causes ~96 million cases of dengue clinical manifestations annually

When you present… Face the audience Synchronize slides with your messages Use a pointer Effective animations

Animation: bad example It is important to remember not to use too many words on powerpoint slides It is also important to remember the transition slides/messages Do not speak too fast otherwise you will lose your audience Humor can be used as long as it is appropriate

No treatment Treatment Subject Subject Since Pex19 is essential for peroxisome biogenesis, we then rationalized that the reduction in Pex19 induced by virus infection could be accompany by changes in peroxisome numbers. To address this, we infected cells with DENV or WNV and then quantify the average numbers of peroxisomes in each cell using super resolution microscopy. Showing here is a mock-infectd cell and a cell infected with DENV after 48h. The disbursed white spots here represent peroxisomes. In the infecte cells, an reduction of peroxisome can be observed. Subject Subject

Describing technical stuff… Diagram, graph, image Keep it simple Use animation

Acknowledge Statements Logos

Acknowledgement Our PhD research has been funded by the generous support of the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation through the Women and Children’s Health Research Institute (WCHRI).

Public speaking Before: structure your speech (the sandwich) During: avoid jargons, use body languages, vocal variety PowerPoints: keep text simple, use effective animations, describe diagrams and graphs Acknowledgement

Thank you! Our PhD research has been funded by the generous support of the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation through the Women and Children’s Health Research Institute.