TBA Please sit at tables with students not from your program Training Workshop for the Three-Minute Thesis Competition F. Jay Breyer & Christine Kelly TBA Please sit at tables with students not from your program

Official Welcome and Brief Introductions

Training Session Agenda Competition Review Outline Suggestions for Three-minute Narration Static Slide Options for Narration Work to storyboard your narration Present those ideas to your student colleagues & receive feedback Develop tentative ideas for a static slide Present those ideas to your student colleagues Tables report the types of Suggestions for Improvement that were given as critiques for students at their tables

Objectives At the end of this session you should have: A proposed slide you want to have showing during your presentation An outline of your presentation

Competition Review Each student will have two static slides: A cover slide: Research Title, Student Name, Program/Department, and Fordham University, Bronx, NY (This first slide is shown as each speaker is introduced.) A static content page - Text or Graphics (This second slide is shown during the narration.) Each student will have three minutes to introduce, explain in a compelling fashion their research and its significance to a non-specialist audience.

Rules See the handout

Judging Criteria Comprehension & Content: Did the presentation help the audience understand the research? Was the thesis topic and its significance communicated in language appropriate to an intelligent but non-specialist audience? Engagement & Communication: Did the oration make the audience want to know more? Did the speaker have sufficient stage presence, eye contact and vocal range; maintain a steady pace, and have a confident stance?

Slide Types Emblematic Single photograph/illustration/drawing Photograph/illustration with some text (e.g., a quote) Contrasting photographs/Illustrations Process screen divided into two, three or four sections with arrows showing process

Suggested Outline Introduction Rhetorical question followed by background for context - tell a story 1st point - Research question - Why it’s important 2nd point - Methodology - Treatment - Conditions 3rd point - Results - no more than three Conclusion Significance of research

Some Examples Financial Education Uses Dickens to talk about the gap between knowing what to do and doing it in Financial lives - Slide: Illustration with Text https://vimeo.com/185899028 Psychology Risk taking in males - Slide: Illustration using Trivial Pursuit https://vimeo.com/215110083 Humanities - Education Selecting advanced mathematics courses in high school - Slide: illustration and text as slide https://vimeo.com/233778229 Biochemistry Uses bananas to talk about Parkinson’s disease - Slide: Process https://vimeo.com/61598974

Some Mistakes Notice the use of filler sounds in the presentation https://vimeo.com/188071014 Moves around the stage to the point of distraction https://vimeo.com/album/4557713/video/215110092 The speaker never refers to the overhead slide https://vimeo.com/61599047

Work in Teams Using the Student Worksheet (20 minutes) Fill out your name, presentation title Your slide description and Why it helps Fill out your presentation outline Five paragraph format Then describe your topic, slides, and presentation to your Teammates - (15 Minutes - Five for each team member.) Teammates make written comments About slide, Comprehension & Content & Significance Teams present results of criticisms and comments to all in summary form (Use Comment Form)

Presentation Hints What counts against you? False starts (e.g., repeating a word) use of filler words (e.g., ummm, you know?, OK? “Like”) Best way to prepare? Practice Record yourself and view the recording

TBA Please Complete the Evaluation Form and let us know how to improve this training session. Thank you. Jay & Christine TBA