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INFO 414 Human Information Behavior

Learn essential presentation tips to captivate your audience, tell compelling stories, use effective body language, and organize materials for a successful and engaging presentation.

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INFO 414 Human Information Behavior

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  1. INFO 414 Human Information Behavior Presentation tips

  2. Presenting Tips • Tell a story • Speak clearly in a strong voice • Face your audience, but don’t stand in one place the entire time • Use body language and make eye contact

  3. Presentation tips • Engage your audience • Gauge your audience’s reactions, communicate • Be prepared to cut pieces if time runs out • Practice • Relax

  4. Materials • Organize your material • Use a large font with lots of white space • Use graphics to liven up slides – don’t go overboard • Don’t use too many slides • Summarize complex content in a handout

  5. Project presentation 20mins • Introduction • Tell the story of your project in brief • give an overview • developing a user centered agent for information provision (product, resource, service)

  6. Project presentation • Explain the process – theory and practice • User centered design; the value added model and the information consolidation process • Understanding the Information behavior of the user group is the key • What do information professionals do in this process • study information behavior; select and evaluate information resources; gap analysis; analyze, restructure, repackage and design information

  7. Project presentation • Description of the user group • Definition • Information needs • Tasks • Resources • Evaluation criteria • General • Subject specific • User derived – link to the information behaviors of your group Focus on information Behaviors – tell the story

  8. Project presentation • Gap analysis • What is a gap analysis? • Describe what you found when you conducted a gap analysis for your group • Specifications for the agent for information provision that will fill the identified gap

  9. Project presentation • Introducing the prototype • Talk about it • Describe it • Justify everything – be very specific • Link specific design considerations directly to your knowledge of the information behavior of your group and what you discovered when you conducted your gap analysis

  10. Project presentation • Plans for field testing and implementation • Conclusion • Sum up • Make your case • Sell the idea in your concluding statement • You are the expert - an information professional – emphasize the theory, processes and practices

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