Presentations Competition
Section outline
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Stage Presentation
The art of Self Discipline
5 to 6 minutes of presentation. No longer or shorter.Sound enthusiastic.A good strong voice.Be animated.Good timing with your display.Don't read from the screen.Posture/gestures and stage position.No dead slides. -
Visa's and Passports.
Visa stamps and stickers
A visa is a sticker or stamp inside a passport.
If you get a re-entry document and sticker for multiple re-entries. Immigration will generally stamp your passport on re-entry into the country.
Some countries like australia do not issue a passport visa or stamp. Your visa or entry permission is kept in the immigration computers and checked at passport control on entry into the country..
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Content
Select 15 of the following to present in 5 to 6 minutes.
Some items are 'Must Have' (no choice).Title Time Diff Cities Area/size Currency
Seasons Terrain Location Tourism-2 Flag
Fare/flights Population Emergencies Language Food-2
Distance Festivals-2 Culture Religions Visas
References GDP InterestingFacts YourNameTitle. (Must Have)
The title must be the focus of this slide. Any animations must make the title very strong and match your speaking of the title for good timing.Time Difference.
This is the difference in time zones from Bangkok Thailand and your country.
When quoting times on your slides try and keep them in order from earliest time first later time lastCities that are significant.
The capital city first but in some countries there is an administration city as well as the capital.Area or size of the country.
The area of the country in square kilometers (km2)The area or size of the country must be compared to Thailand so everyone has a reference point to help them visualize the size.Currency.
Currency must be compared to Thai Baht.
It is good to compare the price of something like a bottle of water so the audience can understand the value of the money.
When showing images of the currency show both sides of coins and notes.Seasons.
Make all images from seasons from your countryTerrain.
Terrain is like geography but is only the shape of the land.
For example where are the mountains?
Are there river plains or flats?
Is the land flat or hilly?Location.
Where is your country?
Name the countries that border your country to help others understand where it is locatedTourism x 2.
What are the best tourist places to visit and why do you think they are the best?Flag.
Flag and the meanings of the colors.
Some history about the flag can be interesting but not too much or it becomes boring.Fares for flights.
How much would it cost for a Thai to fly to your country and what airline would you recomend. Say if your ticket is a return ticket or a one-way ticketPopulation.
How many people live in your country. Is it crowded. How many people live in the cityEmergencies.
What are the emergency numbers in use in your country?
Make sure all pictures of ambulances fire trucks and police cars are pictures from your countryLanguage.
The most common language in use and any major dialects (lesser known)Food x 2.
Popular foods that are normally associated with the country or well know historical foods.Distance.
Distance from Bangkok to the closest international airport for you to vist the countryFestivals x 2.
Popular festivals that are common in your countryCulture.
Culture may be similar to festival but will often be about traditional dress or meeting rituals.
It can sometimes be related to religion or artReligions.
Every country has people following different religions.
When presenting have statistics percentages or graphs on your slide for the audience to see but do not speak them.
Say something interesting about one of the religiions.Visas.
Do you need a visa to visit the country and how long can you stay for?References.
All the websites that you used to get your information from.
When they are animated sliding up the screen make them fast but not so fast you can not read some of themGDP.
The countries economy using the Gross Domestic Product.
Balance of trade is also good.
Make a statement say if the GDP is strong or weak.
GDP can also be linked to Quality of Life and CorruptionInteresting facts.
Try to add an interesting fact on each slide especially if you have data or percentages to show.
Speak about the interesting fact rather than reading the data from the slide.
With a slide of interesting facts about a country, the facts must be accompanied with images and the information is to be presented to the audience with the use of animations.Your name (Author Presenter). (Must Have)
Your full name in English and your nickname. You can also add your student number and class..
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Animations.
Your StoryAnimations smooth movements.
All animations must be smooth so the eyes continue to follow the movement.
Jerky movements stop the flow of your story and weaken your story.Making your words stronger.
Smooth animations should be timed with your speaking
Animations should make what you are saying more important.
Animations should be used to make your story appear from your slide in proper order.Your Story
Only things that part of your story should be on a slide
Butterflies flying must not be on your slide unless they are part of your story.
Gif animations must be part of your story
Gif animations that are not part of your story are distracting and make your story weaker.Animations smooth movements.
All animations must be smooth so the eyes continue to follow the movement.
Jerky movements stop the flow of your story and weaken your story.An example of animation speed when presenting a topic.
This Flip animation can show both sides of coins, notes and pages in books. This action adds more depth to your story and helps keep the audiences attention.
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Dynamic Action Fast Paced
An animation every 2 or 3 seconds will create an exciting fast paced presentation.
Animations every 4 seconds will be a little calmer and most likely good.
Over 4 sconds and the presentation will start to feel a little slower, Sometimes this is good and sometimes not as good.'sAn excellent example of animation speed when presenting a topic. Also take note of all the different objects and styles of animation.
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Dynamic Slides.
Static images. Movement attracts. Hover image for eg.
They eyes have a tendency to follow any movement.
If something moves on a slide it will be the focus of attention.
For movement to maintain a feeling of action and focus it needs to move a little every 3 seconds or less.
Waiting longer than 3 seconds tends to allow the persons eyes to wander and a successful speaker needs to provide the action and focus.
If there is movement every 3 seconds or less the focus is shared between the speaker and the presentation slides.
If the movement is too often and too much the audiences attention quickly goes to boredom.
A small movement can keep the audiences eyes on the image as long as it is only a little movement.
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Themes, Graphic Designs.
Themes group information.
Themes help to group like pieces of information together.Themes can be used to create context for information
Using themes allows more ideas to be used to present information within context. For example, a theme for global time zones allows Thailand's time differences to be presented in context with other countries.Context helps the audience to understand quicker.
Preparing a persons mind for information helps the audience to understand why you are presenting something.
If you put their thinking in the correct place then they will understand your information very quickly.Presentation to the audience.
Theme and context allows for different presentation methods
Present the information with movement and graphic design methods to get the most emphasis..
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Create a theme.
Present your information.
Use your imagination to present
Combine shapes to get different theme ideas
Click to enlarge image.
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Video's.
First Video
1st video no more than 30 seconds 1 second over and there will be a deducation in points.
More than 10 seconds over and there are no more marks for any animations.Speed and excitement
Use 1st video to build excitement start the video at normal speed and in several sections speed the video so it reaches a climax at about the 25 second point.Video fade in and out
Fade video from black to movie at the start and at the end fade from video to black. To do this, add a 'Fade to Black' transition at the start of your clip and again at the end.Second video or more video's if it is needed.
No more than 20 seconds. Penalties are the same as the 1st video.
Speed video up and cut parts that are not needed to get video clips under the 20 seconds.3-4 second clips
These very short moving pictures can be very good when used correctly.
More than 4 seconds they go from moving picture to video and will lose points.
2-3 seconds is a good average.Cooking Video's
You are not presenting a cooking show. Only show the parts or ingredients that are important for taste, appearance or culture..
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Sound.
Fade in Fade out
Background music and video sounds must fade in and fade out
Background music must not make it hard to hear the speaker..
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Stage presence.
Front and Center.
The most powerful postiion on a stage is front and center.
The term front and center has become a synonymous for 'come here'
All other positions on a stage have lesser importance.Posture and shoulders.
NEVER turn your shoulders away from the audience.
The more your shoulders turn from the audience the less important you become.
A gesture to your screen must be done without turning your shoulders.
In many cultures turning your shoulder towards someone is rude.
Check the shoulders are facing the audience and the hands are open to the audience.
Eye Contact.
Look briefly into the eyes of all your audience so everyone thinks you are talking to them.
This will make your audience more attentive and believe in what you are saying.
Showing you are not scared to look someone in the eyes shows a strong sense of character and in many cultures they will believe you are a strong good person.
Don't look to strongly or intensly as this can be a challenge.Posturing. Walk towards groups in the audience.
Move about the stage naturally to talk to your audience from different angles.
Moving towards different groups as you are talking makes what you are saying a little more personal.
Peoples eyes follow movement, if you move at a natural pace the audience will continue to pay attention to what you are saying.
Staying still is boring for the audience but don't run around or jump suddenly, make your movements natural and with purpose.You have won the lottery and you are talking about your dream holiday. Gesture with your arms and body never turn your back to the audience. Practice gesturing to your slide while keeping your shoulder facing the audience.
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Voice Projection.
Speak strongly/firmly and with confidence.
Speaking strongly is not yelling.
Speak to the back of the room.
Take full breaths and speak from your diaphragm.
Speaking to the back of the room makes your voice steady
If you speak with a strong steady voice people will think you are intelligent and know the topic you are talking about.
A strong steady voice makes people believe in you.Speaking confidently is important but when it is you doing the listening, concentrate on actual facts that can be verified.
Not listening carefully, to verifiable facts is how scammers, con-artists and criminals succeed in robbing people, as they also use a confident firm voice..
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Transitions
Transition.
This is the movement from one slide to the next.
Fade to black on a transition is better than fading to white.
White can be hard on the eyes
Keep the animation working on transistions as stopping on a blank screen is normally not good.
Smooth transitions are much better than jerky or jumpy actions. .
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Transitions and animations
A transition is to make your story flow.
An animation is to make your words stronger and help you tell a story.Transition tips.
Allways make the transition automatic so it moves to the next slide giving something for the audience to see.
Time the transition so it is smooth; not sudden or very slow.
Do not have a pure white transition after a black slide it is very hard on the viewers eyes. Rather use a soft colour or a grey.
Fading to black can give a feeling of passing time if you allow an extra second on the transition compared to other transitions in your presentation.Magic Move
Magic move is an excellent transition. It can be done in Powerpoint but is not quite as easy.
For magic move to work 2 slides must have the same objects.
The objects can be in different places, different sizes or rotations.
Magic move then moves the objects through the transition..
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Graphic Designs.
Layers of information.
Large size to smaller size.
This is the same as most important to least important.
Large size should be used once on the most important information of the slide; generally the title.
All other information should be smaller.
ALL INFORMATION must be readable from a distance (back of hall)Giving importance to parts of information.
Underline or adding a box to some information will give it more importance.
Stronger colours bold and different fonts also help give importance to information. Too much colour is only confusing and makes text hard to read. All fonts must be readable otherwise they are not important.Too much colour is hard to read.Too much colour is hard to read.Graphic Design Horizontal Lines.
What is in your script? are you talking about peaceful scenes.
A feeling of horizontal lines is peaceful.Graphic Design Vertical Lines.
If you are talking about action and movement.
A feeling of vertical lines in your graphics will add strength to your words giving a feeling of movement/action.Graphic Design Diagonal Lines.
If you want your audience to feel excited use images and graphics that create diagonal lines.
Diagonal lines give a dynamic and excited feeling.
One of the reason collages of angled pictures look good is because of the diagonal lines the edges of pictures create..
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Exporting Mac Fonts
Fonts.
If you use special fonts in your presentation they will only be on your computer.
Swapping your keynote presentation to another computer means the new computer must have your fonts.
If you do not add your fonts to the new computer your presentation could be changed a lot.
The images below will help you swap your fonts onto another computer.
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Rubriks for Presentation Assessment.
Rubriks
The rubiks are for a panel of judges.
All aspects of language, computer skills and public speaking are assessed.
Points
Scores 4 to 5 are for creativity.
Total/ 34
Mechanic Writing.
Creative text enhances theme and easy to read.
The text is clearly written with little or no editing required.
Few words to assess or spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors distract or impair readability.3+ errors
Not enough words or needs major editing. 5+ errors
Points
5
4.8
4.6
4.4
4.2
4
3.8
3.6
3.4
3.2
3
2.8
2.6
2.4
2.2
2
1.8
1.6
1.4
1.2
1
Animation
Creative animations on all slides assist overall theme and enhance understanding of concepts. All animations add weight to the words being spoken with excellent timing and no distractions.
The animations on most slides assist the audience understanding.
Generally good timing between words spoken and animations add emphasis to most spoken words.
Many animations seem unrelated to the topic/theme and do not enhance the overall storyline. Many slides with no animations.
Movies are too long and do not add to the excitement of the presentation.
Animations are unrelated to the content
and do not enhance understanding. Distracting decorations create a busy feeling and detract from the content. Videos too long
Points
1st movie 30seconds 2nd movie 15seconds Movies <5 seconds over continue scoring graphic animations.
Movies up to 5 seconds over
Movies up to 10+ seconds over.
5
4.8
4.6
4.4
4.2
4
3.8
3.6
3.4
3.2
3
2.8
2.6
2.4
2.2
2
1.8
1.6
1.4
1.2
1
Image/graphics
As per previous and all images are from the country and enhance the theme and story line about country.
Original images are created using proper size and resolution, and all images/graphics enhance the content.
Original images are used.
Images are proper size, resolution and sometimes irrelevant to content.
Images/graphics are too large/small in size are poorly cropped or the color/resolution is fuzzy. Most are irrelevant.
Points
5
4.8
4.6
4.4
4.2
4
3.8
3.6
3.4
3.2
3
2.8
2.6
2.4
2.2
2
1.8
1.6
1.4
1.2
1
Layout
A creative theme is visually pleasing with a feeling of wholeness that removes disjointedness from the content. Information is a continuous flow without breaking audience’s attention.
The layout is creative, pleasing to watch and assists the flow of information.
The layout shows some structure but appears cluttered and busy or distracting with large gaps of white space or uses a distracting background.
The layout is cluttered, confusing, and does not use spacing, headings and subheadings to enhance the readability.
Points
5
4.8
4.6
4.4
4.2
4
3.8
3.6
3.4
3.2
3
2.8
2.6
2.4
2.2
2
1.8
1.6
1.4
1.2
1
Font and Size
The fonts are creative and easy-to-read, size varies appropriately for headings and text. Use of italics, bold, and indentations enhances readability.
Sometimes the fonts are easy-to-read, but in a few places the use of fonts, italics, bold, distracts and does not enhance readability
Overall readability is difficult with too many different fonts, overuse of bold or lack of appropriate indentations of text.
The text is extremely difficult to read with small point size of fonts, poor use of headings, subheadings, indentations, or bold formatting.
Points
5
4.8
4.6
4.4
4.2
4
3.8
3.6
3.4
3.2
3
2.8
2.6
2.4
2.2
2
1.8
1.6
1.4
1.2
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Length of Text
Text is appropriate in length for the target audience and to the point.
Text is too long/short and does not enhance readability or no text to evaluate.
Overall readability is difficult with lengthy paragraphs
Points
4
3.8
3.6
3.4
3.2
3
2.8
2.6
2.4
2.2
2
1.8
1.6
1.4
1.2
1
Background and colors
Creative use of colours and tones assist the theme and readability of text
Background and colours enhance the readability of text.
Colours or busy background detract and do not enhance readability.
Inappropriate contrasting colours, very busy background
Points
5
4.8
4.6
4.4
4.2
4
3.8
3.6
3.4
3.2
3
2.8
2.6
2.4
2.2
2
1.8
1.6
1.4
1.2
1
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Unit and Lesson Plans
M1 S2 Country Presentation Competition.
SA – NGUAN YING SCHOOL ENGLISH PROGRAM (SYEP)
Lesson Plan Period: 10
Unit: Computing Topic: Presentation software.
Course Code: 21283 Course Title:Country Presentation Matayom Suksa: M1
Terminal Objective
Gain an advanced knowledge of 'presentation' and 'word' processing Software.
Practice more advanced thinking skills by problems solving the important parts of the script requiring animations.
How to tell the best story with the images and slides.
Students to gain the skills required to complete on-line courses.
Students to show the self-discipline needed to complete university and on-line units of work.
Students will analyse videos and edit till below 20 or 40 seconds but keeping the most meaningful parts.
Content :
Create a presentation in Keynote, Impress or PowerPoint.
Students to complete on-line quizzes..
M2 S1, S2 Presentations. A Country.
Terminal Objectives:
Lessons:
14 Lessons
Teaching Topics:
As per website M2 S1 S2 Presentations Country
http://brettwilkin.com/moodle/course/view.php?id=110
T. T. Cont: Your presentation your story..
Themes and grouping of information.
Treat your presentation as a story.
There is only information directly relating to the story. NOTHING EXTRA
Animations and their use to make your words and ideas more important.
The delivery of a presentation.
T. T. Cont: Themes Animation Timing
Themes and the grouping of information.
Animations and the timing to add emphasis to main points.
Pracitce Activities:
Practice by presenting to the class
Teachers to give feedback for improvements
Production.Create, Script, Practice, Present :
Script creation
Create presentation
Practice presentation.
Present presentation to class for assessment.
Homework / Assignments:
Complete on-line quizzes
Learn vocabulary.
It is expected the vocabulary will be regular use by the end of the semester. (not the unit)
Teaching Material / Aids:
http://brettwilkin.com/moodle/course/view.php?id=110
Conputers
Projectors.
Evaluation:
Quizzes
Presentation scores based on marking guide.
Teaching Report:
• Computing is used to create an holistic approach to learning by working with Social studies, Public speaking and Science.
• To support subjects specific software is taught so students can complete high quality presentations.
• The emphasis is on using the computer as a tool for creating researching and expressing learning from many different areas. The goal is for the students to be able to take control of their learning, understand what is good research and express this in acceptable high quality formats.
• 'Student centered classrooms' that are also a 'flipped classroom' are the preferred methods of delivery. The website for the flipped classroom is brettwilkin.com.The flipped classroom frees the teacher to work with the students more often.
• Students use the website to review what is taught in class and review for exams. The site logs show students often want to work late at night to finish quizzes and submit work.
• Being an ESL classroom all new words on the web site are linked to a Thai dictionary. The site dictionary gives the meanings of the words in the context of how they are being used on the site.
• Small quizzes to support learning and cater to the curriculum requirements are done on line via the students personal accounts. This means most of the feedback is instant.
• A 'Constructionist' approach based on project / activities outcomes means the website is updated regularly to accommodate changing social attitudes, student brain dominances and learning styles. There is a strong emphasis on creative thinking, research skill and looking for answers rather than being spoon fed.
• As this is an ESL classroom students can review any information they do not understand. It is noted according to the website logs students often log on to do quizzes late at night when they are of the feeling to work.
Teacher Review.
Review 2015
Unit went well but it was noted the animations to exemplify the story were not used efficiently. Students completed all work but more quizzes needed and the unit needs to be matched more with the requirements of M2 students so the learning is easier to scaffold for going into M2.
Review 2016
This year the emphasis was changed to one of create a story and animate your story. This has been a more successful approach as the presentations are starting to become easier to watch with a smoother transfer of information to the audience. The students need to be reminded regularly about completing online quizzes. This semester has seen better quality presentations and animations of stories but students need to be going back to the website more to see what has been taught. Being an ESL environment the students don't always have a complete understanding of what is needed and this is all on the website and quizzes for them to explore.
Some more fine tuning needed with some more quizzes in this unit but basically a successful semester with all the students passing at the required rate of 75%.
In preparation for 2017 this unit web page has been revamped to be more interactive (besides compulsory quizzes) instead of just a resource. As for the dynamic animations and colours the jury is still out until I can question the students. I am very conscious of being an old fogy and what I have done must appeal to the age group intended.
The underpinning philosophy is to create the animations to give ideas but not something to copy. The concepts will be talked about in class and the students can use the principles of programmed learning to follow up ideas on the web. The chunks of information and learning should be small and continuous with no expectation that the student will know; more that they will continue to learn almost by accident through revisiting ideas in sequential order as they use the ideas and concepts discussed. This philosophy has been working exceptionally well and this is an effort to make it better.
Signature:
Robert BRETT WILKIN.
Date: __/__/____
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