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It’s the Singer ,not the Song… How to give a more effective presentation

Learn how to enhance your presentations with essential elements, structure, and motivation techniques. Discover strategies to captivate your audience, organize your content, and deliver impactful slides. Uncover the secrets of engaging learners and making information memorable.

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It’s the Singer ,not the Song… How to give a more effective presentation

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  1. It’s the Singer ,not the Song…How to give a more effective presentation J.S. Keystone MD Tropical Disease Unit Toronto General Hospital Professor of Medicine University of Toronto

  2. I hate Objectives At the end of this talk , you will: • Know the 5 key elements and structure of a of a lecture • Be able to improve AV presentations • Understand why learning breaks are crucial • Hopefully still be awake…

  3. Outline of this very talk • Major elements of teaching • Organization of a lecture • Slide preparation • The learning environment • Learning breaks • “The” secret to success: slide 106

  4. Major Elements of Teaching • Engaging the learner • Clarity of expression • Mastery of the subject

  5. Motivation FeedbackFramework Intermission Information

  6. Motivation • enthusiasm • curiosity • relevance

  7. Enthusiasm • Make eye contact • Change the ‘volume’ for emphasis • Pause before, or repeat an important point • And, if all else fails … …pretend that you are interested in the subject

  8. Relevance • who is my audience? • what do they need to know? • what would interest them?

  9. Motivation Feedback Framework Intermission Information

  10. Framework • Tell them what you want to say • Say it . . . • Tell them again !

  11. Framework • Objectives • Lecture outline • Organized, logical • Thesis development • Summary

  12. “Education is not the filling of a pail ,but the lighting of a fire” W.B.Yates 1865-1939

  13. Motivation Feedback Framework Intermission Information

  14. Information location : importance of ‘ends’ summary/‘take home’ volume : “comprehensive” is bad! Methods: audiovisuals interactive vs. passive

  15. Slide preparation: data • distill the data • avoid absolute numbers if % will do • summarize results in the title • reference the data

  16. Conversion of Pyruvate to Citrate

  17. Vaccine-preventable Illness per 100,000 Travellers ETEC (TD) 20,000 Influenza 5,000 Hepatitis A 1,000 Hepatitis B 100 Typhoid 30 Cholera 0.2

  18. Vaccine-preventable illness per 100,000 Travellers No.. Steffen, J.Wilderness Med: 1994;5;56 ETEC FLU HAV HBV TYPH CH

  19. WHO/CDS 1200 1000 Cases 80 Deaths Countries 800 70 60 600 6000 50 5000 40 400 4000 30 3000 20 200 2000 10 [in 1000s] 1000 1980 1995 1990 1985 1970 1975 Burden of Dengue/Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever World-wide (1968 - 1998) Reports to WHO cases Year

  20. BMJ 2004;329:1212 BMJ2004;329:1212 N=4,450 slides in 10 hospitals 40% false positive blood films

  21. Data Presentation • Data should be legible • Graphs are often better than tables • Scaffolding works well • Add data gradually

  22. Slide preparation: prose • Death from boredom: read every word written on your slides , or… • use phrases, not sentences • < 8 lines/slide • Arial font is good and clean

  23. The rule of 5’s 5 words across X 5 sentences down

  24. 5 problems with this slide! AMEBIASIS CLINICALPRESENTATIONS 1.LIVER ABSCESS 2.LUNG ABSCESS 3.BRAIN ABSCESS 4.AMEBOMA

  25. Amebiasis clinical presentation • Liver abscess • Lung abscess • Brain abscess • Ameboma

  26. Don’t forget to bold the text on your slides

  27. Slide preparation: prose • largest font possible • use lower case only • three colours MAX • contrast is critical • no distracting “do-dads”

  28. Slide preparation: prose • largest font possible • use lower case only • three colours MAX • contrast is critical • no distracting “do-dads” Times New Roman

  29. Slide preparation: prose Arial • largest font possible • use lower case only • three coloursMAX • contrast is critical • no distracting “do-dads”

  30. Motivation &Animation • enthusiasm • curiosity • relevance

  31. Slide Usage 1 word/data slide per min. • repeat slides: continuity emphasis • WATCH THE CLOCK

  32. The learning environment • Review & Rearrange • Go early!: -projector function -picture size, shape -lighting • Pointer (tremor,waver)

  33. Anxiety!!!!  • Rehearse ,Rehearse, Rehearse • Read your first few introductory lines • Drugs: i. beta blocker (propranolol) ii. anxiolytic (alprazolam)

  34. Shit happens ‘A backup plan & a backup to the backup’…L.Kalata 2004 charged laptop & power cord CD or memory stick hard copy of your presentation

  35. 80%of information transmitted is forgotten by students in 8 weeks …and by faculty in 8 minutes

  36. Motivation FeedbackFramework IntermissionInformation

  37. 12 minute rule

  38. Intermission: every 12 minutes 1.Vary teaching strategy: • interactive • anecdote • case 2. Rest periods: • review • cartoon • quiz

  39. Motivation FeedbackFramework Intermission Information

  40. Encouraging feedback: set the ground rules! DON’T • call on an individual • ask answerer next question • ‘put down’ a dumb question

  41. Encouraging feedback DO: • praise correct answers • praise good questions • encourage group responses

  42. In the absence of microphones or megaphones … always repeat the question!

  43. Reprise • target your audience • motivate your learner • organized, logical structure • information: “less is more” • learning breaks • summarize key points • positive learning experience

  44. Jay.keystone@utoronto.ca

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