You will have 10-15 minutes to present your project to the class.
The object of the presentation will be to inform an audience of your peers about your project. Each team member should participate in the presentation. For your presentation:
· Use the class projector. If you do not have a laptop to connect to the projector, you can put your presentation on a thumb drive and use the classroom workstation.
You are free to organize your presentation in any way you wish. Some suggestions:
· Start with a high level summary of the goal of the project, the customer, and the team members
· Diagrams, flowcharts, graphics, etc. are always useful methods for presenting information quickly. Written text can be used if it gets the point across and is not too “wordy” for a short presentation. Powerpoint slides are an example of presenting data in written format, or the web pages from your web site may be a good presentation method.
· Displaying your user screens (if available) is a good method for presentation
· Include status, any problems, expected customers
· Rehearse your presentation beforehand
Remember you only have 10-15 minutes, so you must get across the essential information about your project quickly and concisely.
Suggestions based on previous semester presentations
The final presentations will be formal
presentations, not only to the class, but to interested faculty
members, and customers will be invited. Introduce yourselves by your
full names (not just first names) all at the start of your talk, or
individually before you speak. The first slide should have project
tittle, all your names. Description of the customer can be on this
slide, or one of the early slides.
Speak up, don't let
your voice drop down in volume as is done in conversation. Talk to
the entire audience, don't just direct your talk to the instructor or
to the slide. The final presentation will be in Marksbury auditorium,
that has no back wall to help acoustics, so we will be using a
microphone. Don't have you hands in your pockets while you are
speaking. When you need to look at a slide, do so, but then turn and
then face the audience. Don't speak to the slide.
Don't
look distracted or bored (even if you have heard the presentation a
dozen times in practice) when your teammates are talking. Pay
attention to their talk.
Diagrams, examples, screen shots, really help the audience to understand your project. Don't just have slides of text.
Work on eliminating "pause words": "ah", "um", and the current top in popularity: "so".