Oral Presentations AND Criteria to Evaluate Oral Presentations

1 C:\teach\georalpres (Word Perfect 7) Jesus A Diaz, Ph.D Philosophy Kean University ORAL PRESENTATIONS Using sheets titled Criteria to Evaluate Oral Presentations, I sit in the back of the room as you present your Group Papers or your Individual Papers to the class As you speak, I write my impressions on the sheets Following this handout you will find several Criteria to Evaluate Oral Presentations sheets Some are blank, in case I need them; I used others to grade presentations from students who took this class before you Reading both sets will alert you to my expectations Avoid common mistakes: (1) DO NOT JUST START YOUR PRESENTATION: Open with an introduction (2) POOR EYE CONTACT OR LOW VOICE VOLUME: You will not grab your audience's attention this way Some of your peers will go to sleep, others start talking among themselves, play with the PCs or open a book Your confidence suffers when you realize they are not paying attention A voice appropriate to the room captures their attention immediately You lower your voice if you are in a restaurant Public speaking demands a much louder volume than a one-to-one conversation THE REST APPLIES TO POWER POINT (3) DELAYED STARTS DUE TO TECHNICAL PROBLEMS RUNNING POWER POINT: Lap tops that not hook up to the PC in the class room, media (CDs, flash drives, floppies, etc.) that fail My suggestions: ( i) When you have a few slides ready, test them in the class room PC You can this before I arrive or after class The Lab Assistant can help (ii) Do not bring just one CD, one floppy or whatever media you use Bring more than one copy of the whole presentation in different media E-mailing slides to yourself will allow you to download them if all physically transportable media fail Because downloading takes too n1uch class time, I will allow it only if physical media fails (4) POWER POINT COLOR CONTRAST: Reading your slides will not be easy if the background color and the color of the letters are similar Several days before your presentation, check contrast in the class room PC projecting your image on the screen The color settings in your PC may not be the same as in the classroom PC (5) DO NOT OVERLOAD THE SLIDES WITH MORE TEXT THAN ANYONE CAN READ DURING A PRESENTATION: Oral communications professionals avoid inserting text in Power Point slides If they do, the text is brief and necessary For example, not have a slide like this: "The Cuban Revolution has x stages In the first, Castro gains and consolidates power During this phase, he " That slide should be: Go to page - ~ STAGES OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION: VICTORY AND CONSOLIDATION TOWARD A TOTALITARIAN STATE and so on YOU provide the details in YOUR words The audience cannot read a long text while listening to you Besides, YOU are the presenter, not the slides Cutting and pasting text from their papers to Power Point is the most horrible thing students (6) CONNECTION BETWEEN IMAGES AND WHAT YOU ARE SAYING: The relation between the point you are making and the image projected on the screen should be substantial The image should make it easier for the audience to understand you Show a graph if you are explaining statistics If you are talking about Shiva, a Hindu god, show art depicting the deity If talking about child marriage, show photos from child marriage ceremonies One group on Widow Burning began its presentation with a clip from a movie showing a widow jumping into her late husband's cremation fire Go to page 4 (7) WHERE TO GET IMAGES: Most Internet search engines (Googgle, Yahoo, Altavista, Metacrawler and others) are data banks of image files Click at in the search engine's home page and type the key word or words appropriate to your search Also at any search engine hon1epage type "PHOTO DATA BANK." The screen will display several options The Bettmann Archive and Getty Images, the sources professionals use, contain the most extensive collection of images, but many are copyrighted From whatever source, you can download image files by right clicking at the image and following the prompts Test if Power Point opens the image files you download Some images might require photo editing software (8) AUDIO: Talk with the Lab Assistant if you want audio during your pres en tati on CONCLUDING THOUGHTS (1) Admit your ignorance if someone asks a question you cannot answer I know you are not experts in the subjects of your presentations (2) The Two Films and Your Assignment explains the relation between the Group Essay and the Group Oral Presentation TO INSTRUCTOR:DON'T RETURNTO STUDENTWITHOUT GRADEDPAPER " TO STUDENT: DON'T ACCEPT FROM ;mSTRUCTOR WITHOUT GRADED PAPER c:\teach\geprecri , , Jesus A Diaz, Philosophy , ' Kean CRITERIA Ph.D, Univer's'ity ,'; TO EVALVATE ORAL PRESENTATIONS TYPE OF PRESENTATION: Group (One of two films) Individual (Final Paper) TOPIC: Section NAME OF PRESENTER(S): ' ' DATE: I_I GROUP INDIVIDUAL 1) FACTUAL' ACCURRACY: Are the facts presented true? Does literature cited suppport them? 2) PURPOSE:' Did presenter (s) 'make purpose of Did she/he/they accomplish announced purpose? 3) ~ LOGICAL ORDER' OF, PRESENTATION: Did presentation the, points follow the clear? in a meaningful way? If more than one member of the group presented, did they decide ahead of time who would present what or did they show lack of''planning? 4) ~~ , Too fast, too slow, just about right 5) VOLUME OF VOICE: Too loud, too low, fluctuating aimlessly I I, 6) U~' OF POWERPOINT: Did presenter(s) use PowerPoint to enhance presentation or to let the slides speak for he/she/them? WaslWere presenter(s) just reading slides? Were images appropriate to topic? 7) EYE CONTACT: Did presenter(s)face audience and looked at their eyes (except when necessary to deal with a PC problem, change slides or other contingencies)? ,,' 8) ATTITUDE TOWARD AUDIENCE QUESTIONS: Hostile, arrogant, dismissive, 9) USE OF ALLOTED too soon? SUM ) TIME: MAR Y Did presenter(s) AND run out of time, THE R COM finish MEN T S : GRADES (As syllabus explains) The criteria in this sheet apply to Group Presentations Cultural Events (these involve the films) and to Individual Presentations (these involve your Final Papers) If presenting calculate your grade GROUP PAPER 50% + FINAL PAPER 50% + YOU EARNED - Cultural Events, I as follows: GROUP If presenting follows: POINTS SHEET: for Group Presentation PRESENTATION 50% GRADE for your final paper, ORAL PRESENTATION 50% IN THE ASSIGNMENT = IN ASSIGNMEMT 100% I calculate GRADE IDENTIFIED your grade as IN ASSIGNMENT 100% IN FRONT OF THIS ... presentations (2) The Two Films and Your Assignment explains the relation between the Group Essay and the Group Oral Presentation TO INSTRUCTOR:DON'T RETURNTO STUDENTWITHOUT GRADEDPAPER " TO. .. Castro gains and consolidates power During this phase, he " That slide should be: Go to page - ~ STAGES OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION: VICTORY AND CONSOLIDATION TOWARD A TOTALITARIAN STATE and so on... ~~ , Too fast, too slow, just about right 5) VOLUME OF VOICE: Too loud, too low, fluctuating aimlessly I I, 6) U~' OF POWERPOINT: Did presenter(s) use PowerPoint to enhance presentation or to let