Presentation

What is the aim of the presentation? You need to give a presentation to a non-specialist audience explaining your project and your findings or conclusions You should review your own performance and learning as part of your presentation You have 15 minutes to include a 5 minute question and answer session

Example: what was wrong with this 4 minute presentation? HINT: they came up with 17 errors: can you spot them all?

Which learning objective is mostly gained via the presentation? Answer:

AO4 Review and communicate Assessment Criteria Evidence (highest mark band) LO7 Make a presentation of findings and conclusions by selecting and using a range of communication skills Makes an authoritative presentation of the findings and conclusions, showing extensive knowledge of the project with detailed responses to questions LO4 Understand and apply the principles of evaluation and review in relation to the planned outcome and own learning and performance Understands the principles of evaluation by comprehensively evaluating the planned outcome against objectives. Effectively reviews own learning and performance throughout the project process Responds with maturity in a dialogue during the question and answer session

Your slides should not be too wordy You need to submit your slides at the end of the presentation You may wish to annotate your slides You should include a copy of your script as well

You need to Plan, Prepare and Practise Four stages of planning your presentation Content – plan what you want to say. It should be relevant to the title, interesting and the slides should follow on from each other Visual aids – they should be easy to read, relevant and interesting Pace/voice – people need to be able to hear you, you need to stick to the time limit Body language – you should smile and look at the audience You need to Plan, Prepare and Practise

You have a lot of flexibility about what you can focus on. You should: Try to make it interesting Give a flavour of your project Explain why you chose your topic or question Explain what you found out in terms of main issues/arguments and the conclusion you reached on your question.

Self-reflection in evaluation You should: You must show self-reflection in evaluation of the project i.e. what went well in terms of planning, methods, research, write up ? What didn’t? what would you do differently if you were starting again/doing a comparable university research project? What overall have you learned from doing the project? (in terms of skills, not content)

Run through the presentation with a friend or family member Homework Create your slides Run through the presentation with a friend or family member Produce an annotated copy of your slides Produce a copy of your script Make sure that you have evaluated your project and described any new skills you learnt.