 How do you give a presentation? Prepared by R. Milian

Your teacher announces, “ You will give a presentation.”

Your reaction

Fear takes over

I’ve never done one

Start sweating

World is coming to an end

Stop

Relax

Help is on the way

First, forget what people have told you about a presentation

Why?  Everything you have been told is wrong

What a presentation is not  Pictures that have been copied and pasted to slides  Reading slides to the audience  Adding funny animations to make the presentation interesting  Bore the audience with so much information that you put them to sleep

What a presentation is …  Giving the audience an interesting idea you want them to know about in an engaging manner  You present the information to the audience, but you do not read it  You take the audience into an adventure in order to convince them or inform them  It is almost like a show

1 st Step Begin writing what you know about your topic  To get ideas  To have a starting point

Putting ideas on paper Ideas flow easily when you write

2 nd rule Research your topic

Research deeply

Take you in different directions

It’s ok

Step 3 filter your idea Main idea

I’ve got it

Step 4 organize your idea like an essay

Beginning  Introduce your idea A Story B Important fact

Middle  Support your idea  Give reasons

Conclusion  Summarize your main idea

Mistake #1 Creating presentation without first writing the essay

Mistake #2 Looks for the images that will go on the slides

Mistake #3 Presentation has no organization

Advice  A presentation is created from the bottom up  It is not created from the top down

Bottom up approach  Bottom up  Presentation  Practice  Organize  Essay  Filter idea  Research idea  Write

Top down  Go to computer  Use Powerpoint  Get pictures  Present

Project  Create a presentation following Milian’s guide  You get to select your topic ( science, history, art, music)  It will be an informational presentation  It will take from 3-5 minutes

What you need  Computer/internet/printer/ ink  Powerpoint/ Keynote  Library card  Motivation  Creativity

Why do I have to do this?  College  Professional career  Life skill