How to give an effecive presentation ?

[Hassan]

ok so the time has came when i have to present infront of my class. I request all the experienced guys to share tips and tricks about presenting. i want my presentation to be unique Thanxx

 

[hotgamerft]

The first thing is how well you are prepared.
You have to be good at the topic you are going to present, if that's the case then you are half way there because you will feel confident while explaining it and you'll be prepared to answer any question regarding the topic.
Be confident and don't be afraid, people often think that they'll get embarrassed and friends will laugh at them but no nothing like that ever happens.

Prepare the topic proper and rehearse it at home, that is what i do. I recently had to present my research proposal in front of 7 PHD doctors and i was scared to death for reason unknown to me.
What i did was that i prepared the slides and went to my room closed the door and started the slide show and started the presentation as if i was presenting it in front other people. It gave me a lot of confidence and i was able to do my presentation in quite a good manner.

 

[wfsoomro]

Keep rehearsing so that You know what you're gonna say cuz if you hesitate and stop to think then you'll further get nervous. Speak loudly and clearly. That's all. No need to rush. Keep it nice and steady. Take longer breaths if you think you're getting nervous. And you'll be just fine.
Oh and yeah just be confident. Just think you're just saying some stuff. You talk all the time. You're just talking no big deal. You're just explaining something you know. Hope this helps.

 

[LordIT]

• Your presentation slides should be in points, not the whole pak studies text.

• People usually just turn their backs toward the audience and read the slides. Dont do that.

• Move around a bit.

• Dont just look at the professor, look at your peers while you present.

• If you havent done this sort of thing before, its okay to get nervous. Before the presentation begins, your heart will be pounding like a motherfucker. So before you begin, turn back for a while and put your thumb in your mouth and blow on it repeatedly. This will calm your heart down.

• Its natural to forget what you're preseting. So write down points of your presentation on a TINY piece of paper. Make sure you only write points and not the whole pak studies. This will give you confidence that even if you forget, you're covered.

• If you want people to get wet while watching your presentation, ditch powerpoint and use Prezi instead. It'll take time to create the presentation but you'll walk a bauss out of the classroom.

 

[AsadAbrar]

• Your presentation slides should be in points, not the whole maha bharat text.

• People usually just turn their backs toward the audience and read the slides. Dont do that.

• Move around a bit.

• Dont just look at the professor, look at your peers while you present.

• If you havent done this sort of thing before, its okay to get nervous. Before the presentation begins, your heart will be pounding like a motherfucker. So before you begin, turn back for a while and put your thumb in your mouth and blow on it repeatedly. This will calm your heart down.

• Its natural to forget what you're preseting. So write down points of your presentation on a TINY piece of paper. Make sure you only write points and not the whole maha bharat. This will give you confidence that even if you forget, you're covered.

• If you want people to get wet while watching your presentation, ditch powerpoint and use Prezi instead. It'll take time to create the presentation but you'll walk a bauss out of the classroom.

What's with the use of maha bharat?

 

[LordIT]

What's with the use of maha bharat?

Analogy for a lot of text. Edited anyway.

 

[mansoor93]

Dont rush. just dont rush.

 

[Shyber]

Present to yourself in front of a mirror. Use your hand for gestures. Look at yourself while presenting and fix whatever you don't like.

 

[r3aper]

If its a group presentation, make your part of the presentation yourself.
Familiarize yourself with the Slides, watch it like a 100 times so that it gets burned into your brain. The next slide should be in your memory even before it appears on the screen.

I never took any reading cards/material with me whenever I had to deliver a presentation, I left my cues in the slides I made. Be it a small clip art or a bullet heading. It diverts the attention of the audience, if you are constantly looking at your cards/reading material.

If its your first time, its gonna be hard to focus your attention towards the presentation and if you are feeling nervous about it I would say that you prepare some sort of reading material from where you could take your cues to explain the topic at hand, be warned that once you lose your track your mind will get blank and you'll be like stuttering, repeating your lines again and again and other crazy stuff like that will happen which your friends will tell you after you are done with the nightmare.

For the slides, keep them clean with minimum text and a few clip arts (icon-archive.com is a good place to get some art for your slides). If you put too much text in the slides you'd be unconsciously turning your head to read the slide which will complicate things, also it puts the attention of the audience and the professor towards the slides rather then the presentor himself. So keep the text in slides minimum.

And keep your USB clean of any unwanted pics and video clips, you don't know when your usb goes haywire and pop them up automatically in front of the whole audience. I have seen this happen to a lot of people, its one of the most embarrassing situations.

 

[Rip Uzair]

1) Know what you're presenting very well.(this is THE most important point. One usually gets nervous because of this point rather than anything else).
2) No one expects you to better than an average students of your class.(you might wrongly think that you're not as good as you should be.)
3) Keep the slides plain and simple and to the point.

Things I observed about myself during my first presentation which might try take care of: Talk loudly and keep the mic close to your mouth(I kept mic close but wasn't talking loud enough). Talk slowly and with breaks(I was talking very fast, yet I though I was going too slow). When presenting, try moving to the center and look at the projector display while explaining things, using hands or pointer(I was looking at the laptop screen while doing so and basically explaining to the wall behind me )

 

[MegamanEXE]

PLEASE use a good clean font like Myriad Pro and Segoe UI light. It annoys me to no end when someone uses silly childish fonts, especially Comic Sans. Don't write too much on a single slide. The lesser the information people THINK there is, the happier they will be and will pay more attention.

In case, I designed myself a custom Metro UI template. Use nice, sleek colors and do NOT paste pixelated photos or ever stretch images. Take a deep breath before starting.