ELC3521 – WEEK 9

DEAN A. F. GUI (INSTRUCTOR)

LESSON OVERVIEW
I. Previous class (Week 6) reminders 5
• Title pages / table of contents
• Executive summary
• Images
• Final A1 checklist and submission demo
• Homework
 Unit 2 - Delivering oral presentation of projects
 Read Unit and understand
 Review resources on Blackboard
II. Lesson content
 Unit 2 - Delivering oral presentation of projects
 RoL 2 & A2 instructions 30
 Language & structure 30
 Crucial elements: preparation, content, presentation 30
REVIEW OF
LEARNING – UNIT 2
(PREPARATIONS)
ASSESSMENT 2

INSTRUCTIONS &
GUIDELINES REMINDER…
A2 CHECKLIST
– PREPARATION, CONTENT,
DELIVERY, OVERALL
IMPRESSION
 This checklist represents the background
work done – the preparation that is
unseen to the audience.

 Most (90%) – if not all – of these items

should be checked prior to your
presentation weeks.
STRUCTURE & LANGUAGE OF AN ORAL
PRESENTATION
phrases (signposts)
descriptors
intro (informal vocab)

body

linking (signposts)
conclusion

Structure Language
 PURPOSE FOR PRESENTATION
You are ultimately persuading your target audience (the potential customer) to endorse your
group proposal and fund / implement / license your project deliverable(s), by convincing
your audience of the necessity or benefits associated with your products or services. More
specifically, you want either
a. the grants committee to award your group funding in order to put into action or develop
and then put into action your product or service;
b. manufacturers and store owners to purchase the rights to or license your group’s product
or service to be then manufactured and sold; or
c. a potential employer to implement an idea for a product or service which your group has
identified in response to an area of need within your industry or specialisation
However, the “purpose” of your presentation is equivalent to the background information you
provided in the individual A1 proposal, which included your product or service (the
deliverable). The focus this time, of course, will be different. – the deliverable(s) presented
during the oral assessment will have been decided and designed by your group. What’s very
cool about that is most of the work should already be done (if A1 was approached properly),
and your group probably needs to concentrate only on discovering the possibilities when your
papers are considered together.
After examining the common factors between the ideas of your group members’ individual
proposals, use this language template to complete your group’s purpose (either checking,
filling-in-blanks or circling from the bolded options):
Our group is presenting a product / service which combines the following elements from each
individual proposal:
Paper 1. _________________________ Paper 2. _________________________ Paper 3.
_________________________ Paper 4. _________________________ Paper 5.
_________________________
The main function of our deliverable is to _____________________________________; and we
have named our deliverable ________________.
Our deliverable is customised for this industry: _________________, for this division /
specialisation: __________________, and will perform its duties in this location / area:
_____________.
The purpose of our group presentation is to convince (audience) the grants committee / manufacturers
and store owners / a potential employer to
_____ fund our project so we can implement our deliverable / develop and implement our deliverable.
_____ buy the rights to our deliverable and then manufacture it / license our deliverable so that we
may have it manufactured for consumer purchase.
_____ implement our existing deliverable / approve our idea for the deliverable which will add an area
to our industry that is much needed / enhance an area of our industry that needs attention.
OBJECTIVES, AUDIENCE,
CONTENT & VOICE
For now, answer the questions under Objectives and Audience (we
will consider Voice & Content in the Activity section of today’s lesson
–
Once you have completed this, recall the Purpose for your
presentation, and draft an introductory segment, using the following
template:
“Welcome, and thank you everyone, for attending our ______
(persuasion focus – fund-seeking, vendor contract, needs area ???)
presentation, which aims to introduce ___________ (purpose) for
your consideration. We hope that, by the time our talk is done, we
will have convinced you to / that __________ (objectives). Now, our
presentation will be divided…”

* Note: This is meant to be a quick and simplistic composition to help you get
started on your Introduction. Please do not use the template words as officially
sanctioned words for your presentation. You should modify the language and
structure as necessary to fit your presentation needs.
10 MINUTE BREAK
3 OF THE MORE
CRUCIAL ELEMENTS
(AS WE CANNOT COVER ALL
PRESENTATION MATTERS)

Preparations
– The Plan B strategies

Content
– Storytelling & Narratives

Presentation
– Present Like Steve Jobs www.flickr.com / www.bing.com
THE PLAN B STRATEGIES
As a class…
- How do you react in an
uncomfortable, awkward or
embarrassing situation? During a
presentation?
- Have you taken steps to try and
overcome or – at least – manage
the stress?
Detail a plan for one strategy practice under each strategy type. Before
doing that, however, please discuss and complete the following with each
other:
a. Are there any other types of nervous reactions you can think of that
might be helpful to consider?
b. What advice might you give for those who may suffer from the
same kinds of nervous reactions as you do?
Write down your group’s reactions, and keep these notes available for later
use…
Now, go ahead and start planning those strategies!
STORYTELLING & NARRATIVES
As a class…
- Do any of the images invoke memories or stories from your lives?
- If yes, what are they (include as many details as possible)? If not, then, what are the
things that might make you think of your past or remember your experiences?
Depending on how you have approached this group topic, you can try one of two activities:

a. Tell the technology’s story

- Think of a way that you connect to your individual project through narrative – say, your journey with developing its proposal;
the personal experiences you may have had that influenced the ideas that led to your deliverable; or day dreams you may
have had about how you see your deliverable evolve in future

- Tell each other your stories, and listen carefully for any areas where the stories seem to have a common ground

How can this common ground (or any part of your stories) be used to commence or end certain sections in your presentation?

b. Let the technology tell your story

- What are all the different parts that make up each group member’s individual project deliverable? What do they look like?

- Go online and locate images that represent the individual parts. You may need to print these images, or pull them up on a
lap top with perhaps a shuffling programme.

- Once you mix the images up, do you notice any patterns or characteristic similarities? Line them up accordingly - what can
you say about what is happening with each image as you move from left to right? Does a story begin to appear?
- You may need to use a storyboard to assist with the other media elements needed to bring stories to life.
Note: The questions posed for both a and b can be used interchangeably; some, perhaps, with minor modifications
“If we listen to a powerpoint presentation with boring bullet points, a certain part in the brain gets activated. Scientists call
this Broca's area and Wernicke's area. Overall, it hits our language processing parts in the brain, where we decode words
into meaning. And that's it, nothing else happens.
When we are being told a story, things change dramatically. Not only are the language processing parts in our brain
activated, but any other area in our brain that we would use when experiencing the events of the story are too.
If someone tells us about how delicious certain foods were, our sensory cortex lights up. If it's about motion, our motor cortex
gets active…”
http://lifehacker.com/5965703/the-science-of-storytelling-why-telling-a-story-is-the-most-powerful-way-to-activate-our-brains

https://darjaimke.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/storyboard.jpg
“PRESENT LIKE STEVE JOBS”
As a class…
- Watch the segment of the Steve Jobs presentation with the Macbook Air
and the presentation style he uses
- Why did Jobs choose this technique to present the product? What other
possibilities could there have been? Would they have worked as well?
What are your thoughts on using kinesthetic (i.e. show-and-tell)
demonstrations during a presentation?

Watch the entire Steve Jobs video as a group, and write down every instance you notice Jobs using a
manipulative (show-and-tell items / products). Use the following table as a guide (you will need to match
the strategies wit the correct video examples first), adding in another column for the manipulatives
possibly being used at those stages
Show & Tell / Manipulative

i. What message might Steve Jobs be trying to send as you progress through the presentation
timeline?

ii. Start putting together a skeleton outline or a timeline of events for your group presentation,
moving from start to finish.
https://youtu.be/2-ntLGOyHw4?t=4m45s
iii. At each stage, add a manipulative from the Jobs video – Does the manipulative work in
your context? If not, why not? Would adding your own manipulatives help – a mobile app,
laptop, parts to your products / services?

iv. Does one item stand out above the others, which could possibly be the focal point of your
group’s presentation?

v. Could the individual items serve as visual markers for transitionary points during your
presentation?
WHAT DOES THE FUTURE BRING
IN… WEEK 10?
 Full student presentation demo & criteria grading
practise
 Practise presentation instructions

Homework:
 Develop plan & outline for group orals; set up practise
schedule