1. Presentation Tips

2. At the Beginning... Introduce yourselves and your topic

3. DO: ●Prepare, practice ●Engage with your audience ●Be present (mentally and physically) ●Make additional comments, if relevant ●BE ON TIME

4. DO: ●Use bullets! ●They’re useful for info bytes ●Key info, names, dates etc.

5. ABSOLUTELY DO NOT ●Write out full-length paragraphs because they’re really long and people will stop reading them about a third of the way through and they’re bulky and look terrible on a presentation and they’re boring unless they have a punchline which is rare dorsal fin hockey puck monkey monkey underpants

6. Do: Make Eye Contact

7. DON’T: ●STRICTLY READ OFF OF YOUR SLIDES ●Look down at a script ●Have a script ●Stare into space when it’s not your turn ●Be unsure of what you’re talking about

8. Do Use images They provide visual interest as well as visual information

9. DON’T: Go overboard. This ain’t cute. And this is too hard to read.

10. Don’t Make presentations so long that you have to speed through slides Make presentations so short you average 1 slide per 6 minutes

11. Further Tips and Advice You will flub a line/word You will gesticulate more than normal Your voice will do weird things You may lose the thread of what you were talking about Roll with it

12. At the End Thank the audience Be prepared to answer questions Don’t end with “Ummm… So that’s it.”