Lesson 14 – Final Presentations

Final Presentations
Leave feedback for your classmates on their presentations.

Final Presentations Feedback Form

Lesson 13 – Practice

You had the opportunity to practice your presentations and get feedback. Next week, we will have our Final Presentations.

Lesson 12 – Q&A

Q & A
We learned about preparing for the question and answer (Q&A) session.

Presentation Q&A from Daniel Beck

Save the last 30-60 seconds to make your final point. You might say something like:

"If you only remember one thing from my presentation, please remember that …"

After that, pause, and then say "Thank you."


Handouts
You should not give a PDF of your slides as the handout. 

• Design handouts separately in a word processor program.
• Handouts should complement your slides (they should not copy them in design or information).
• Handouts can have details and be text-centered.
• Include your list of sources on the handout.
• Handouts should follow CRAP principles.

Read these blog posts by Garr Reynolds about handouts:

Handouts can set you free
"Slideuments" and the catch-22 for conference speakers

Lesson 11 – Images, Fonts, and Organization

Images
I gave a short lesson on using images well in your presentations. We looked at negative space, the rule of thirds, bleeding, and image size. You can review these principles with the slideshow below.

Prezo Design 2 Images from Daniel Beck

Fonts
I also gave a short lesson on fonts. You can review the slides below.

Presentations fonts from Daniel Beck

Organization
I gave a handout that we looked at. Use it as a resource to help you prepare.


Final Presentations
Continue to build your presentations. 

• Length: 12 minutes (includes Q&A time)
• Use the SUCCESs Checklist to build your message
• Use the CRAP, Images, and Fonts presentations to help your slide design.
• Use phrases and gestures and voice inflection from the handout.

Lesson 10 – Next Step Presentations (FINAL)

Next Step Presentations (FINAL)
Leave feedback for your classmates on their presentations. Focus on the PUNCH. Be as specific as possible with your feedback.

Next Step Presentations Feedback Form

Lesson 9 – PUNCH and Revisions

PUNCH and Revisions
You had time in class to work on your PUNCH introductions. You also received feedback that you can use to improve your presentations. Next week, you will give your presentation again.

Homework
Go to TED.com and evaluate another new presentation. Choose any presentation you like. Watch the first five minutes carefully and evaluate the presenter’s introduction. 

Use the link below to give your evaluation.

TED Talk Evaluation Form – SUCCESs Version

Lesson 8 – Next Step Presentations 1

Next Step Presentations 1
You gave the 1st delivery of your Next Step presentations. Use the feedback form below to help your classmates improve their presentations.

Feedback Form for Next Step Presentation 1


After you receive feedback on your presentations, use the feedback to help you improve your presentations. Also, consider taking video of yourself presenting so you can see what you are doing.


PUNCH
I gave a mini-lecture on beginning your presentation well with PUNCH. Read more about PUNCH at the blog link below.

Presentation Zen – Start your presentation with PUNCH

You can also use the PUNCH slides from our lesson.

Presentation punch from Daniel Beck

Homework
Go to TED.com and evaluate another new presentation. Choose any presentation you like. Watch the first five minutes carefully and evaluate the presenter’s visual message. 

Use the link below to give your evaluation.

TED Talk Evaluation Form – SUCCESs Version

Lesson 7 – Next Step Preparation

You had time to work on your presentations and to get some feedback from classmates. 

Presentation (first take)
Next week, you will give a presentation on Taking the Next Step. You will receive feedback from classmates and me and use that to improve your presentations to give again later.

Use the SUCCESs checklist to improve your ideas.

• Simple
• Unexpected
• Concrete
• Credible
• Emotional
• Story

Lesson 6 – SUCCESs Report and The Next Step

SUCCESs Report
You gave your presentation using the SUCCESs checklist to evaluate a message.


The Next Step
You shared your three ideas for your The Next Step presentations.


Homework
Use the SUCCESs checklist to prepare for each of your three ideas.

Use Google Docs. Follow the steps:

1. Sign in / log in to Google Drive.
2. Click on NEW.
3. Choose GOOGLE DOCS. 
4. In the top left box, give your document the title: 
5. your full name + ASP + L6 Homework (Taro Suzuki's ASP L6 Homework)
6. Write your ideas down. 
7. Due 11/15 21:59 

Begin to prepare a presentation on one of your ideas. You can change your idea, but you must keep the theme.



Please consider signing up for the Oshiba Speech Contest. It is on the same theme and this class will prepare you. Also, I can coach you.

Lesson 5 – Sticky Ideas

Sticky Ideas
We looked at the SUCCESs acronym from the book Make It Stick by Chip and Dan Heath. 

Find a message (commercial, story, saying) and analyze it with the SUCCESs formula. You can see the slides from that presentation below.

Sticky Presentations from Daniel Beck

Homework

• Find an advertising campaign and analyze it with the SUCCESs checklist. Make a short presentation on your findings in the next lesson.
• Prepare outlines for three ideas for your The Next Step presentation. 
• A next step that was taken by you or someone else in the past.
• A next step that you or someone else should take to reach a goal.
• Advice for someone planning to take the next step.

Lesson 4 – Layering

In this lesson, you showed your data visuals and I gave feedback. 

I showed you some more ideas about layering. You can see those slides again in the slideshow below.

Layering Graphs from Daniel Beck

Next week we will begin to look at preparing your message.

Homework
Go to TED.com and evaluate a new presentation. Choose any presentation you like. Watch the first five minutes carefully and evaluate the presenter’s visual message. 

Use the link below to give your evaluation.

TED Talk Evaluation Form

Lesson 3 – Data Visualization

Slide Revisions
We looked at the revisions you made for your slides.

Data Visualization Slides
We looked at the slides you made to visually show data.

Data Slide Rues from Daniel Beck

Homework
1. Revise your first slideshow based on the feedback from class.

2. Revise your data visual slides.

3. Go to TED.com and evaluate one presentation. Choose any presentation you like. Watch the first five minutes carefully and evaluate the presenter’s visual message. 

Use the link below to give your evaluation.

TED Talk Evaluation Form

Video — Cello Wars (Star Wars parody by The Piano Guys on YouTube)

The Piano Guys are my favorite YouTube artists. They have great music AND great videos. This one is a parody of my favorite movie from my childhood, Star Wars. Now people call it Episode IV (4) or A New Hope, but it was Star Wars to us when it came out. It wasn't until the stupid prequels (Episodes I, II & III) years later that those names were used.

The ideas of lightsabers, fighting ships flying across the screen, laser guns and The Force were all new and very cool. Star Wars was the first real blockbuster movie. If you wanted to see it when it came out, you might have had to wait hours and there were no reserved seats back then. It stayed in the cinemas for over a year.

I have included a modern trailer of the movie below the Piano Guys video. The original trailer was not very good. Enjoy!

Lesson 2 – First Presentations

First Presentations
Each student gave their self-introduction presentation and received feedback. This was a good starting point.

Please keep these things in mind:

• Go back and see if you can improve each slide according to each principle of CRAP. (eg., Can you make the alignment more clear? Is there a good way to add more contrast?)
• For each decision I made (CRAP, animation, etc…) did I have a clear reason for the choice?
• Did each slide have only one main point or many?

Data Visualization
To prepare for the next lesson, prepare a few data slides. You can get the data from your own research, from information from another class, or a source on the internet (i.e., Wikipedia, the U. N.).

Try to use a few different types of data slides (bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, etc …).

In the next lesson (10/11), we will look at your slides and learn how to make powerful data slides.

Lesson 01 – Orientation and CRAP Design

Welcome

Welcome to our class blog for Advanced Presentations (Academic Skills) class.

I look forward to teaching you all about presentations in the coming term.

First Assignment

Give a short presentation about yourself.

Prepare slides to present on your own laptop next week.

You can use your own photographs. You can also use graphics from the Internet. If you know how to credit the source, include that.

Your presentation should include:

1. Name
2. Academic background (current & previous majors also)
3. Academic interests
4. Personal information (family, hometown, interests)

Make a title slide and practice using contrast.

In your presentation software, open a new file.

Make a title slide with the following points.

• Title
• Subtitle
• Name
• Major
• School
• Date

Use the CRAP principles to design your title slide.

You can review the CRAP presentation and the Images presentation again below.

GTB Presentation Design 1 CRAP from Daniel Beck