How To Make A Midterm Project Presentation In Your Spare Time For Fun And Profit

1. How To Make A Midterm Project Presentation In Your Spare Time For Fun And Profit

2. The Hard Parts • Actually getting the data is the hard part. • Actually getting it into Excel is the other hard part. • Some people make turning the data into charts unnecessarily hard. • If this is you, get better help from Sanford.

3. The Dirty Little Secrets • I grade this presentation pretty casually. • It is pretty much a grade-pad, honestly. • Most people who get less than 100% tend to do so for going over the 5 minute time limit. • It is a 3 minute minimum. • Going much past 3 minutes is rarely necessary.

4. A Pound of Packaging • Your presentation should contain some data. • Usually this is in the form of a chart, but you have other options. • PowerPoints are not required. • Posters or even displays of like 100 pairs of KylerDuffin’s shoes are totally acceptable. • Although her last name is no longer Duffin. • Please avoid excessive amounts of glitter.

5. A Pound of Packaging • Whether or not you use PowerPoint, there are things you can include in your study to reduce the amount of time needed to discuss actual data by quite a bit. • There are some you should include for sure. • They are practically mandatory. • There are others which are totally optional, but a good way to fill time.

6. Mandatory Packaging • You should mention what the general theme or focus of your study was. • You see, most of us have no idea what you surveyed about. • You should mention what grade levels of student that you focused your test on. • You should mention what methods you used for your study. • For most of you this means saying, “We gave a survey.”

7. Suggested Packaging • Consider mentioning the following: • Why you were interested in the topic • Why you think others might be interested in the topic (assuming you chose a topic people generally care about like…not time travel) • j/k lol =)…sort of • What you expected to find before you did the study • A preview of interesting results…like foreshadowing or teasers.

8. Suggested Packaging • Consider mentioning the following: • Things you might change about the wording if you did it over. • Other questions you are now interested in based on what you found out. • Particularly idiotic responses you got from others either in blooper reel format or just mention the true “winners” • Your personal suspicions as to what led to the patterns you saw.

9. Some Simple Math • By the time you have introduced your topic, explained why you were interested, suggested why others might find it interesting, foreshadowed your results, possibly mentioning a few of the especially ridiculous answers, and mentioned what you expected to find…you can easily be over a minute into your presentation.

10. More Simple Math • If you leave time to explain why you think your results might be interesting to the audience or why you think they turned out the way they did, as well as changes or additional questions you would ask in the future, as well as a joke or two about how pointless some of the responses were, you could easily account for 2 minutes of presentation time.

11. More Simple Math • If you are not going to explain charts in much detail, leaving them up for about 15 seconds while you point out key features is still a suggested minimum. • So, if you have more than 4 charts, you risk going over time.