1. Presentation

2. 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

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

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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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)

10. 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.