Presentations are scary. I avoided them where possible in uni, only doing a few here and there and accidentally, though gleefully, missing a group one in my GDIP LIS.
This week i had to give a presentation to students on the electronic resources available to Business students, but figured a live demo would be better, especially since it was on short notice. But I will do up the slides i would have done up if i'd had more that a few minutes to give the demo. Perhaps i can put a few more points on the resources and make it available to students?
My presentation probably aligns most with the first category, the exposition, as i will be presenting the facts about the resources and giving a basic how-to guide. My audience are final year business students so its tailored to their resources and whether the resources cover the three employment paths: management, marketing and finance. In my research i found out that our limited resources arent really tailored towards the finance aspect, so this i will need to break to them gently and provide alternatives. They will be at the beginning of their thesis research journey, and some of them are foreign exchange, so i will need to cater to different levels of familiarity with the resources.
The point made about knowing your subject is something i felt very fearful of in my actual demo - i'd have a general idea how to work the resources but be a bit rusty on legitimate searching as i havent got queries in awhile and wouldn't be that well up on business topics. Obviously i used my limited time before i was due to give the demo looking at a few more general topics but with recently cut hours it was hard to spend any real time on it, so i muddled through the few search suggestions i got unexpectedly.
My story will be as follows.Introduction to myself and library. How to login to the portal through which you access the resources mentioning that they should have received an email by now, if not email on handout. Then go through each resource, one-two slides per resource with space for questions at the end. This handout mentioned is something i did prepare for students this week so it will make up some of my story. This means I have a fair idea what will be going into the resources part of the story. I know from experience what types of questions and concerns the students have, so this should help the slideshow construction.
I will more than likely stick to PowerPoint, as i own it, and the work Microsoft Office is 2013 so it's a quite updated version i can use during quieter times. I was however interested in learning about Prezi, Google slides and slideshare. Thankfully i've learned from experience that messing around with schemes and fonts and images just wastes time so i know the best idea is always to go for a clear font (such as Times New Roman) and style, keeping accessibility in mind. My images will only be screencaps, which i have some prepared already so nothing to worry about there. The plan is to simplify the resources for students, so paragraphs of words on the page would be counter-productive anyway- therefore i will be constructing clear simple bullet points.
As soon as i've constructed the slides i will screen cap some of them here.
and a closing slide
This week i had to give a presentation to students on the electronic resources available to Business students, but figured a live demo would be better, especially since it was on short notice. But I will do up the slides i would have done up if i'd had more that a few minutes to give the demo. Perhaps i can put a few more points on the resources and make it available to students?
My presentation probably aligns most with the first category, the exposition, as i will be presenting the facts about the resources and giving a basic how-to guide. My audience are final year business students so its tailored to their resources and whether the resources cover the three employment paths: management, marketing and finance. In my research i found out that our limited resources arent really tailored towards the finance aspect, so this i will need to break to them gently and provide alternatives. They will be at the beginning of their thesis research journey, and some of them are foreign exchange, so i will need to cater to different levels of familiarity with the resources.
The point made about knowing your subject is something i felt very fearful of in my actual demo - i'd have a general idea how to work the resources but be a bit rusty on legitimate searching as i havent got queries in awhile and wouldn't be that well up on business topics. Obviously i used my limited time before i was due to give the demo looking at a few more general topics but with recently cut hours it was hard to spend any real time on it, so i muddled through the few search suggestions i got unexpectedly.
My story will be as follows.Introduction to myself and library. How to login to the portal through which you access the resources mentioning that they should have received an email by now, if not email on handout. Then go through each resource, one-two slides per resource with space for questions at the end. This handout mentioned is something i did prepare for students this week so it will make up some of my story. This means I have a fair idea what will be going into the resources part of the story. I know from experience what types of questions and concerns the students have, so this should help the slideshow construction.
I will more than likely stick to PowerPoint, as i own it, and the work Microsoft Office is 2013 so it's a quite updated version i can use during quieter times. I was however interested in learning about Prezi, Google slides and slideshare. Thankfully i've learned from experience that messing around with schemes and fonts and images just wastes time so i know the best idea is always to go for a clear font (such as Times New Roman) and style, keeping accessibility in mind. My images will only be screencaps, which i have some prepared already so nothing to worry about there. The plan is to simplify the resources for students, so paragraphs of words on the page would be counter-productive anyway- therefore i will be constructing clear simple bullet points.
As soon as i've constructed the slides i will screen cap some of them here.
i've removed the email addresses for privacy
and a closing slide
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