Preparing and Delivering a Pre-Recorded Final Presentation: Key Guidelines and Tips

**Creating Your Pre-Recorded Presentation: Key Points and Tips**

### 1. **Introduction**
– **Introduce Yourself:** Start with a brief introduction including your name and any relevant background information.
– **Attention-Getting Introduction:** Consider a compelling fact, question, or anecdote related to your research to engage your audience.

### 2. **Outline Slide**
– **Agenda:** Provide a brief outline of what your presentation will cover. This helps set expectations for your audience.

### 3. **Presentation Content**
– **Statement of the Problem:** Clearly define the problem your research is exploring.
– **Literature Review:** Summarize the key points from your literature review, focusing on the most important findings.
– **Methodology:** Detail your research methodology, explaining why your chosen methods are appropriate for your study.

### 4. **Conclusion**
– **Strong Ending:** Summarize the key takeaways from your research and advocate for your proposed study.
– **Questions:** Invite the audience to ask questions, showing readiness to engage with their concerns or curiosities.

### 5. **Slide Preparation Tips**
– **High-Quality Photos:** Use clear, relevant images to support your points.
– **Minimal Design:** Avoid cluttered slides. Stick to a clean design with minimal text.
– **Text Guidelines:**
– Limit lines of text to five or six.
– Keep each line under seven words.
– Use no more than four or five bullet points.
– Avoid all caps and excessive fonts.
– **Essential Slides:**
– **Title Slide:** Include the title, your name, class name, and instructor name.
– **Outline Slide:** Show the agenda for your presentation.
– **Body Slides:** Organize content with headings and bullet points.
– **Conclusion Slide:** Recap the main points and summarize your research.
– **Sources Slide:** Cite all references used in your presentation.

### 6. **Technical and Presentation Tips**
– **Rehearse:** Practice your presentation multiple times to ensure smooth delivery.
– **Presenter Mode:** Familiarize yourself with navigating slides in Presenter mode.
– **Microphone and Camera:** Ensure your equipment works properly and test them before recording.

### 7. **Submission**
– **Sharing Permissions:** Ensure your link has the proper sharing permissions for access.
– **File Format:** Upload your presentation as an MP4 file if possible.

By adhering to these guidelines and tips, you can create a compelling and professional pre-recorded presentation. Good luck!

 

Drop a link to your prerecorded final presentation to this drop box. Remember, make sure your link has sharing permissions on!! If the drop box will accept it, you can drop the MP4 file to this dropbox.

Here are my recommendations on recording your presentation:

Recommendations for Pre-Recorded Presentations.docx

Here are my guidelines on preparing your oral presentation:

HN450: Honors Program Research Seminar—Oral Presentation Guidelines

Your oral presentation should be 10 minutes in length—no shorter or longer. When preparing your speech, be sure to include the following:

·        Introduce yourself and come up with an attention-getting introduction. Feel free to involve the audience into your presentation at the beginning (or at any point).

·        Provide a brief outline of what your presentation will cover (agenda or outline slide)

·        Give the presentation itself with all the details, which include:

o  Statement of the Problem your research is exploring

o  Overview of most important key points of Literature Review

o  Discussion of your methodology—give good details because you need to justify why this study would be done

·        Conclude thoughtfully. Here you should end strongly, being an advocate for your proposed study

·        Ask the audience if there are questions

Tips for the presentation:

–         You should include the following from Chapter 1: Problem Statement and Purpose Statement

–         Include only the most important points from Chapter 2 – it will be tempting to include lots from your secondary research, but limit yourself to no more than 2-3 minutes here

–         From Chapter 3, you should emphasize ALL the parts—this is what you are “selling” to the audience; be sure to focus on methods because the audience will determine if you proposal is “approved” or not

You must have a PowerPoint presentation for this speech; you may also create a Prezi (www.prezi.com). There is no particular number of slides you must have, but you should create a PowerPoint that observes the following rules and guidelines:

·        Use high quality photos

·        Don’t make the slides too “busy” with elaborate shapes, designs, and pictures

·        Don’t try to dazzle the audience with lots of different colors

·        Keep the words on your slide brief and to a minimum.

o  Don’t have more than five or six lines of type

o  Don’t have more than six or seven words in each line

o  Don’t use more than four or five bullet points

o  Don’t write all words in capital letters

o  Don’t use too many different fonts

Be sure to have the following slides in your presentation:

·        Title slide: Include presentation name, your name, class name, instructor name

·        Outline slide: Give a brief outline of what your presentation will cover in bullet points

·        Body slides: These slides should have headings that describe what your current point is with bullet points and/or photographs to orient the reader

·        Conclusion slide: Sum up your presentation

·        Sources slide: Cite the sources of your information for your presentation

You should be prepared to give this presentation beforehand. You should also rehearse. Be sure to bring your notes with you the day of the presentation.

Your purpose is to inform your audience about your personal project for this semester.

Your audience for this speech is your instructor and classmates. Pretend that your audience doesn’t know anything (even if you think they might). This will help you be as descriptive as possible.

During your presentation, you will be put in Presenter mode, so you can navigate your own slides. You should also be sure that you have a working microphone and camera–you will be asked to be on camera for your presentation. 

Here is a template you can use to prepare your slides:

Final Presentation Slide Template.pptx

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