TED inspired Presentation style

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  Hi there.

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  Welcome to my workshop on Ted inspired presentations.

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  My name is Pope, and I'm a graduate writing facilitator

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  at the S F U Library.

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  But I'm also a graduate student.

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  I'm in the fact of education, So I'm pursuing my

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  second PhD.

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  I did my first PhD at UBC, Um, in the

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  fact of science, so and I've also been a two

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  times Ted X speaker.

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  So a lot of what I learned at ted X

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  I will be sharing with you today to help you

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  improve your presentation skills.

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  All right, um, if you can see here in my

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  presentation, I have four little boxes here, audience presenter message

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  and tech bits.

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  Now, I'm gonna send spend the least time on tech

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  bits because I'm sure all of you can find lots

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  and loads off resources out there that tell you about

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  how to create a neat looking slide.

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  Um, uh, not to put too much text on the

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  slide color schemes, all that kind of things.

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  So for this purpose of this presentation, I'm not gonna

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  be talking about those details except except I'm gonna be

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  talking about Maura about on crafting your presentation for your

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  audience and getting that message across.

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  All right, so the first thing we talk about is

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  the audience, because in the end, when we're doing a

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  presentation, we're doing a presentation for the audience.

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  Right way might think that we're doing a presentation for

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  ourselves because we're sharing something and we're sharing something that

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  we're quite excited about.

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  Maybe our work, uh, the area of interest or anything

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  like that.

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  But in the end, our presentation is for the audience.

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  So what's more important?

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  The first thing that you're asking your presentation, the first

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  thing you think about is who your audience are, not

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  what you want to present, its more off what they

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  want to know from you.

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  What do they expect from your presentation?

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  What did they expect from you?

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  So it's so important to know your audience?

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  No. They're background, know their expertise, know their expectations of

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  you and find out what makes them really curious.

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  What makes them want to listen to you, right?

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  So we're going to dive into something called the psychology

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  of the audience.

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  Now, in my sole ideas, you can see it's a

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  picture of millions now, there kind of my favorite character.

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  I'm not saying that the audiences are little.

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  Yellow characters are walking around in the room.

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  I'm just saying that each audience members that come and

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  listens to your workshop or presentation, I should say, are

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  a little bit different, right?

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  They're different because as they listen to your presentation just

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  like how you're listening to me now it's an information

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  is being filtered through you from a specific frame of

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  reference. And each of you has a different frame of

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  reference because each of you have different expectations, uh, different

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  backgrounds, different levels of knowledge of presentation skills, for example,

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  different experience in public speaking and presentation.

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  So each of you are listening to this workshop right

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  now. This presentation right now and each of you are

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  going to take away something slightly different, and most of

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  the time your audience are gonna Onley hear things that

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  are meaningful to them.

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  Right? Things are that may seem repetitive things that they

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  think that they already know.

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  They kind of know the background off.

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  They tend not to listen as closely they'll perk up

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  or lean in once they hear something as meaningful to

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  them. So they also would play pay closer attention to

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  messages that totally affect their values, their beliefs, their well

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  being right.

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  That is what perk their ears up and at the

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  end is that through this frames of reference there, basically,

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  judging that judging what you're seeing not the negative way

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  but judging what you're seeing based on their knowledge, a

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  frame of reference and, um, their background off that particular

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  topic. And at the very end, the most important thing,

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  I think, is how what is the degree of relatedness

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  they have with you?

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  Because imagine standing on the stage and you're reading from

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  a piece of paper.

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  There's not really much connection with that Speaker is there

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  when you're just talking that speaking as opposed to you

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  presenting and performing your presentation.

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  So when we talk about audience and presentations, we want

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  to think about how presentations our audience centered.

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  What that means is that when you're presenting, you're not

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  presenting for yourself.

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  You're presenting for the audience you're presenting to their expectations.

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  You're expecting you're presenting to their curiosity and what they

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  want to hear.

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  So remember the first step to creating a presentation of

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  any kind, whether, if it's to a room off 200

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  versus two or three you're presenting for them.

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  So that is why it's really important for you to

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  understand who your audiences are.

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  The next thing to understand is, apart from the audience.

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  Is the presenter yourself, right?

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  Because you're the one that's going to be performing this

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  presentation and the reason I used the word performances because

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  that is what we're doing.

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  We're not just merely sitting there or standing there reading

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  from a text book or reading from a text in

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  a monotone voice.

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  So first thing you want to consider is personality.

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  What type of personality argue when your public speaking when

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  you're performing and the reason you wanna ask yourself that,

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  is that if you know that you're someone who's a

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  little bit more nervous about public speaking, but you're really

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  good at building content, right for your script, then you

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  know that you have to practice the public speaking part.

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  But if you're someone who's really confident in public speaking

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  and you're not afraid of cameras and you're not being

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  afraid of being on stage, then the next part you

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  wanna practices the content because in the end, even if

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  you're, um if you're if you perform really well on

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  the stage off, you know, when your public speaking or

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  presenting. But if your content is not tight, if your

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  content is not passing on a message, the audience can

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  take away, you're not imparting.

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  You're not imparting anything to them.

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  Okay, next thing to think about is that your own

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  posture? Yes, your body posture.

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  That's what I'm talking about on Dhe these days.

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  We're presenting remotely mawr and more and more.

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  And sometimes we may feel that when we're presenting remotely,

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  we can be a little bit more informal.

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  And that's actually not true, because when you're presenting remotely,

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  you have to be even mawr engaging.

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  You have to be even mawr animated mawr.

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  Um, you have toe sometimes announcing it your words a

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  little bit more and use expressions a bit more because

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  your audience are looking at you, um, at a screen

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  and a two D screen.

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  And ah, lot of the times for the presenter.

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  When you're presenting remotely online, it feels like you're presenting

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  to yourself into an empty room, right?

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  But you're not.

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  People are looking at you, so that's why sitting up

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  straight or standing, um, slight movements are okay, But some

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  type of posture that would open up your diaphragm and,

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  um, you know, give you a little bit more confidence,

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  and that's very important.

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  Now, a lot of you might be asking is that

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  when I'm presenting, um my power point is very important

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  to me, right?

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  And I mean, I agree some of the times with

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  that now, today, it's not any different.

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  I I chose to use Prezi.

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  As you can tell, this is my first time using

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  Prezi most of the time when I'm presenting in person,

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  I hardly have any slides.

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  Um, the slides I do have is that if it's

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  really difficult for my students to write notes down that

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  I'm speaking of on, I don't want to be don't

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  want them to be frantically writing notes.

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  So that is when I would put up a slide

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  with bullet points.

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  But in the end, you wanna ask yourself, Do you

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  really need slides when you're presenting?

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  What are you trying really to convey with your PowerPoint

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  slides or your present slides?

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  Right now, if you tell me that poll, my power

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  point slides air almost like my speaking notes.

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  Then I would recommend that you do not use power

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  point as your speaking notes, because if you lose that

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  power point, you don't have your speaking notes on dhe.

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  If it's your speaking notes, your slides tend to have

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  a lot more text, right?

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  So in the end, the presentation is you is the

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  presenter. The slides that you have on the on the

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  side there they're merely thio aid your presentation.

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  They're not the presentation.

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  It's you.

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  That's the presentation.

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  So remember that.

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  Ask yourself, Do I need slides?

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  What are some other things I can use?

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  Some of things you can use is the projection of

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  your voice, your body language, different type of props that

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  you can use, and especially on remote present presentation These

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  days. You can actually bring things to show, you know,

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  through the video and short to your audience.

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  Right? So that's the neat thing.

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  The third thing about presentation Now we've learned about the

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  audience, learned about the presenter, the third, and I think

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  equally important thing is the messaging.

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  What are you trying to get across to your present

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  to your audiences?

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  What are you trying to get them to take away

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  from your presentation.

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  What you want them to remember from your presentation, Right.

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  Um, what is it that you want them to feel

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  or do once Dave, listen to your presentation.

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  Eso you got to decide on the messaging And most

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  audiences, no matter if you're presenting to ah, big classroom

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  or a small classroom is that most audiences are Onley

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  capable of remembering one message, maybe two if they're simplified.

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  But it's one message that they want to take across.

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  So remember, what do you want your audience to say

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  when they leave your presentation?

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  Let's just say they see a friend on the way

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  to the coffee shop after they've left your presentation.

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  What is it you wanted to say about your presentation?

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  Something memorable.

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  Probably. Right.

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  So the next thing is, how do you make your

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  presentation memorable?

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  There are different ways to do to do that.

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  So first things is that the 11 of the there

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  are many effective ways, but I think one of the

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  key effective ways that I've learned is creating a story

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  you might be asking me.

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  Oh, how do I create a story?

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  Um my my work on my area of research.

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  It's so specific that it's all data driven.

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  You know, I can't make a story out of that.

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  I can't make a once upon a time out of

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  that. So this is why I said no.

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  Everything can be turned into a story.

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  Because if you're doing research, if you're doing, um, even

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  the conceptual research like paper lit review there's a purpose,

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  right? Why are you doing that research in the first

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  place? Why?

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  What questions are you trying to ask?

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  So if you if you have those two things, you

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  have a story and why a story?

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  Because I want to share a Native American property I

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  have here on slide here, which I'm going to read

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  to you is that Tell me the facts are not

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  learn, right?

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  Tell me the truth and I will believe, But tell

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  me a story and it will live in my heart

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  forever. So stories create a connection with your audience.

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  Now I remember how I talked about.

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  There's so many different types of personalities For audiences that

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  come into your presentation.

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  It's because it's true.

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  Everybody's different.

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  Everybody's a fingerprint, all right, So how do you connect

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  Tooth, um, with your area of interest stories.

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  Stories connect people stories, connect you as the presenter to

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  the audience stories, connect each other.

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  And still with stories is interesting, because when you have

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  a story, you're able to pass on that message, and

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  that message is an idea, Right?

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  Ideas become story, so that's what we're trying to do

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  in our presentations.

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  That's what we're trying to do in our in public

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  speaking is that we're trying to share something that we've

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  either formed or came up with from our reading from

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  our research that's in our heads.

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  How do we transfer that idea that in our heads,

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  to our audience, who are sitting out there especially remotely

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  stories come in now Stories are universal because everybody understands

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  the story, right?

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  Um, there's a beginning, a middle of the end.

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  There's usually a villain and a hero, right, And there's

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  a there's a reason to it, um, stories have a

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  clear structure and purpose.

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  There's a reason why you're telling this story and the

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  importance of this story.

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  Um, every story has a character route.

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  What that means is that there's a consistent thing or

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  topic or person that's in that story that carries the

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  audiences through.

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  That's the breadcrumb.

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  The character route is the breadcrumb, and then stories appeals,

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  you know, toe our deepest emotions.

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  It creates that connection with Speaker.

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  It answers their curiosity right.

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  They want to know more.

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  And in the end, stories are surprising.

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  In the end, you tell a story, and it's sometimes

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  unexpected, right?

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  That's that's the hook that you want to have of

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  the audience.

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  And in the end, when you're creating a story, it's

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  almost really hard to make it really complicated, right?

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  So it's because stories are simple and their focus.

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  I remember what I said about audiences.

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  They're only able to take away one message maximum, too,

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  right? So this is where simplicity and focusing is really

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  important in creating a story.

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  Because once you have a cohesive, simple related a story

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  that can relate to your audience, this is how you

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  transfer the idea that you have in your head to

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  the audience themselves.

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  Now, the last part that I want to touch on

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  is that for most presentations in remote, um, remote kind

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  of online type of environment that we are in now

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  is that there are yes, there are some tech considerations

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  that we may not have to think about when we're

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  presenting in person, right, for example, the slow Internet connection.

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  So make sure that if you're doing a zoom nobody

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  else is doing, zoom in your household trying to reduce

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  the background noise or different distractions in the background.

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  Ah, nde try to use you know, this type of

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  Prezi thing because it's better to have ah, blend of

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  a talking head on DSS slides and also take breaks.

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  If it's really long right, try to have some interaction

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  with your with your audience as well.

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  And last but not least, I want to end this

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  presentation by saying thank you for, um, you know, attending

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  listening, listening to my presentation.

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  Check out my email down there if you need to

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  contact me, and I'll be happy to answer questions that

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  you have through email.

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  So I hope this has been helpful to you and

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  your class.

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  Thank you