Blog for week 8

Lecture summary:

Todays lecture was all about how to create and deliver a good presentation to your peeers. The slides go through a few tips and pointers on how to make your presentaion good. Different types of presentations are explained throughout the slides and how these should be used in context with your audience and what your presentaion is on. A good presentaion has the audience being interactive and doing something, this will help them learn and remember your presentation better. An audience will remember 60% more if it is being interactive so a large emphasis should be shown here. Speeches have a structured format, such as, a speech has an introduction, body and a conclusion.

Tutorial Summary:

List 5 strategies that will help you deliver a top-notch presentation:

1. Practice your presentation before hand over and over so you know your work inside and out.


2. Make sure your data in the presentation is correct, referenced and is reputable.


3. When using slides during the presntation Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS). Don't put a whole essay on one slide limit it to 3 or 4 dot points per slide if you can.


4. Interact with your audience or get them to interact with you. It is proven that the audience will remember more of your speech if they interactive during the presentation.


5. Speak clearly and make eye contact with the audience.

Resource Summary: PowerPoint Tutorial

This website is a great guide for beginners on MS Power Point and even for people who know already how to use this program. The site goes through step by step how to create a slide, how to add motion and pictures to your presentation, and adding sound to it as well. It also explains how to create speaker notes which would be very helpful for any speaker and especially first time speakers at university.