> Presentation Skills (speaking & responding)
- HINT: Your presentation is accompanied by a real, live human being -- YOU!
- Did you practice?
- Did you rely on the text on the screen?
- Did you understand and clearly communicate information and ideas deeper than the content on the screen?
- Are you able to speak independently on your topic/argument/content? Are you letting the slides/etc. do the work for you (booooo), or are you letting the slides/etc. supplement your oral content (yessssss)?
- How did you respond to any audience questions? (Confidently? Or with uncertainty?)
- Do you repeat presentation content in your response? Can you elaborate with additional information/ perspectives?
- For group presentations: Have you practiced together? Do you have a sense of transitions between speakers/content?
- BEST CASE: Your presentation is clear, thorough, and convincing regardless of your slides/etc.; your slides/etc. enhance your presentation and provided a useful reference for your audience (but presentation could have survived without slides/etc.); you welcome questions from the audience and you respond to them thoughtfully.
- WORST CASE: You merely read the content on the screen and refer back to just that content in responses to audience questions; you seem unfamiliar with your slides and your presentation concept beyond the slides.
