Here are some advices to be considered when you are going to prepare your slides for academic presentation.
1. Prepare your presentation in PowerPoint. Never use MSword file unless it is really necesary, to avoid audiences’ perception that you are not ready for the presentation
2. In the first slide put the tittle of your presentation, your name and institution (if any). You can also inserted a logo of your institution here. Mention also the event, date and place of seminar.
3. In the second slide it is good if you show topics and sub-topics you want to talk about.
4. Arrange each slide so that it is not too crowded with words. Insert relevan figures. You could inserted maximum four graphs of figures in one slide along with their notes, otherwise the slide will be too crowded.
5. Make sure that the font is big enough to be seen by the audience at the back of the room.
6. If you inserted pictures or graphs from literature, make sure that you state the source.
7. Unless it is necessary to show, moving picture or animation could detract the audien’s attention, and that is not good for academic presentation.
8. For 15 minutes presentation, as many as 15 slides you can show to the audiences with reasonable time for each.
9. Instead of put lenghthy phrases, it is better if you can make pointers, a flow chart or a diagram to guide you to issues you want to talk about.
10. It would be nice if each slide has relevan pictures with issues you will describe in words
11. You may also use picture as background for each slide as long as it is not distracting the audience from reading words on top of it
12. Show an acknowledgement to people or institution who help you conducting your research or prepearing for the presentation by listing their names in the last slide.
13. In the last slide you could show “thank you” to the audience for their attention.
Now for the presentation:
1. Make sure that you have uploaded the file for your presentation at least 15 minutes before the presentation time start. You have to ensure that the file you uploaded is the last updated one. Place the file in the start menu of the computer to make it easy to find when your turn is come.
2. Give greeting to the audiens like “Good morning everybody”, I prefer that one rather than the formal version “good morning ladies and gentlement”, unless the meeting is really a formal one. Say also thank you to the Chairperson and the organizing committe for giving you the opportunity to present your work in that event, and the audience for attending your presentation. Don’t forget to show your smiling face !
3. Using a remote control for moving from one slide to another is preferrable. Use also a laser pointer to make you easy pointing things you want to indicate to the audiens.
4. Don’t be like a statue ! Use your body languange, you evan even move or walk a little bit, but not too much offcourse.
5. If you are presenting as a keynote speaker, a 30 minutes presentation time including discussion is usually will be allocated for you. But if you just present result of your research, usually only 15 minutes including discussion will be allocated for you. Try your best to stop your presentation at least 5 minutes before the total allocated time, to allow people to ask or give comments on your presentation.
6. Say “thank you” for closing your presentation.
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