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

2. Planning & preparing an interactive presentation
Tips for public speaking

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

4. 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

5. 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…

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

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

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

11. Planning & organizing an interactive presentation
Tips for public speaking

12. Public speaking
Before your speech
During your speech
PowerPoints

13. 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

14. Opening Body Conclusion
The sandwich
Opening
Body
Conclusion

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

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

17. Dengue virus in the blood

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

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

20. Public speaking
Before your speech
During your speech
PowerPoints

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

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

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

24. Use vocal variety: the V3Ps
Volume
Pitch
Pace
Pause

25. Use vocal variety: the V3Ps
Volume
Pitch
Pace
Pause

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

27. Use vocal variety: the V3Ps
Volume
Pitch
Pace
Pause

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

29. Public speaking
Before your speech
During your speech
PowerPoints

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

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

33. 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

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

35. 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

36. 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

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

38. Acknowledge
Statements
Logos

39. 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).

40. 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

41. 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.