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Presenting Science
Molly S. Costanza-Robinson, Ph.D.Middlebury College
Caveman Chemistry FYSE 1329
Spring 2011
Outline
Presenting Using power point to present Presenting science
Outline
Presenting Using power point to present Presenting science
Presenting
Enunciate and project your voice Make eye contact with your audience Avoid nervous habits Reading is not presenting
2 notecards are allowed. Use none? Short, bulleted phrases keep you on track
Rehearse: It helps you…
Organize your talk Is the order of your slides logical? Do you know what comes next?
Stay within time constraints Is your 15 min talk really 25 min? Can you say what you mean concisely?
Stay calm and confident interruptions won’t throw you off allows for spontaneous thoughts
Consider your audience
What do they already know? What are you excited to teach them? What will they be interested to learn?
Consider your purpose
Convey your scientific understanding Teach your classmates something new
& interesting When possible, link your new science
to science that has become familiar
Hourglass Organization
Start broad overview/history of technology
Get more specific science, examples, your experiment
Broaden out again Summary, “take-home message”
Outline
Presenting Using power point to present Presenting science
Slide rules
Spend at least 1-2 min. per slide Use <5 bullets per slide Use 24 pt font or larger
http://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/students/study/engineering/engineer05/images/sliderule20.jpg
Color Choices: contrast Color Choices: contrast is good!is good!
BLACK
BLUE
GREEN
RED
Don’t use light colors like YELLOW
white on black
white on blue
yellow on blue
Don’t use PASTELSM.A. Daugherty
Avoid too many words
If you have very long sentences being projected on the board, I can guarantee that no one will be listening to the words that you are actually speaking. They will be reading, and your emphasis will be lost.
Keep it short Use phrases Force people to listen to you
Avoid distractions
Although this is cool it distracts from the science
Just enough “design” to be pleasing
Powerpoint advantage: visuals
Photos Diagrams Colors
http://www.blog37.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/technology_stockxpertcom_id1218361_size1.jpg; http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tz3ncmsbBIA/S9EfgLVziyI/AAAAAAAAADs/x-2jyD3BxFU/s1600/95171_Technology.jpg
Outline
Presenting Using power point to present Presenting science
(Scientific) Conventions
Appropriate units Specific & quantitative Appropriate conventions
Symbols (m), subscripts (NO3), superscripts (people/km2), arrows
Citations in small font (<18) at the bottom of the slide
Final Slides
Acknowledgments (help, $) Further Reading Questions
Questions?