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

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

3. Your reaction

4. Fear takes over

5. I’ve never done one

6. Start sweating

7. World is coming to an end

8. Stop

9. Relax

10. Help is on the way

11. First, forget what people have told you about a presentation

12. Why?  Everything you have been told is wrong

13. 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

14. 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

15. 1 st Step Begin writing what you know about your topic  To get ideas  To have a starting point

16. Putting ideas on paper Ideas flow easily when you write

17. 2 nd rule Research your topic

18. Research deeply

19. Take you in different directions

20. It’s ok

21. Step 3 filter your idea Main idea

22. I’ve got it

23. Step 4 organize your idea like an essay

24. Beginning  Introduce your idea A Story B Important fact

25. Middle  Support your idea  Give reasons

26. Conclusion  Summarize your main idea

27. Mistake #1 Creating presentation without first writing the essay

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

29. Mistake #3 Presentation has no organization

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

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

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

33. 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

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

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