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What is an effective presentation?

It is most definitely NOT this cartoon . . .

Today we looked at what the success criteria of an effective presentation would be in preparation for our class talks. We will be talking for 1 – 4 minutes on the subject which we’ve done our personal project on. We watched a video clip (which the P7s saw last year, but we feel it is a great way of showing what we mean) which gave us some handy tips.

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Effective Presentation Video – CLICK HERE!

The video told us about the three Ps:
Planning, Preparing, Presenting

Planning – We’re lucky, we’ve done the hard work which was our personal projects – nothing to worry about.

Preparing – Over the next week, we’ll be preparing our class presentations, learning how to select the main points and write these in note form. We’ll then have time at school and at home to practise for our presentation. At this stage, we’ll want to make sure we’ve got any props which we’re using for our presentation.

Presenting – We’re looking for the following things in our presentations:

1. A clear, loud voice which is varied to keep our audience interested
2. Eye contact with the audience
3. Clear layout – a beginning, middle and an end

Tonight, you may want to have a think about what your main points are going to be, these may be a few of the chapter headings within your project . . .

See you tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice