Electronic presentations, skills and methods:

Recently I was asked "How I would teach effective electronic presentation skills to my students?" Well... I really think that some of the students out there today are far more creative than myself... but there are still a few general guidelines to any presentation. So in response to this question:

The first thing that I would do to teach my student the elements of an effective presentation is to create an effective presentation myself. In this presentation I would firstly, I would teach my students what the difference between good and bad topics are so that they pick topics appropriate to their audiences. Then delivering the topic in such a way that it makes the audience realize why the topic is relevant to them without being too wordy or repeating yourself in the presentation and the speech. Secondly, I would teach my students how to deliver an effective presentation. Skills such as time management, getting set up, finishing up early to take questions etc., practicing the presentation, staying relevant to your audience, respecting the audience’s intelligence and not getting too complicated that it loses the audience, are all of vital importance to the delivery of the presentation’s message. Thirdly, I would encourage my students to use more pictures and animations as long as these elements served to enhance the presentation.
During my presentation I would occasional slip in slides that are not quite as effective and question my student on the effectiveness of these slides, this would serve as formative assessment. After the presentation I would get my students to either set up a short effective presentation based on the presented points, or write a short rubric regarding the topics covered by the presentation. These would serve as a summative evaluations.

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