Instructions for
Oral Presentations
To see the schedule of Oral Presentations click one of these three:
409a www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy19/g19present409a.html
409b www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy19/g19present409b.html
459 www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy19/g19present459.html
First Oral Presentation
1) Read through the assigned chapter, take notes, and think about it for a few days. Then discuss the content informally with someone. Explain what the main concepts are. See if you can define them without your notes. Note the reaction, and the comprehension or misunderstanding.
2) Go to the Web or library databases and search for information that is relevant to your chapter. Integrate this additional information into your presentation.
3) Prepare an outline for your 20-min presentation. Your presentation must take at least 19 minutes, but no more than 22 minutes. So be sure you follow the clock as you present.
4) Prepare a handout, or use the overhead projector. Useful handouts include one or more of the following: a copy of the outline, a test, an exercise, a table, a diagram, Web links, etc.
5) Go to the Web or library databases and find information on how to prepare for oral presentations (speeches, lectures, addresses, speaking to groups, etc.). Plan your presentation using any new information you gain that is appropriate to our class situation.
6) You need to state your opinion or interpretation for each segment as you go along, and not wait till the end to do so. Many students lose points for not following this important requirement.
7) Practice ahead of time. Do not read your notes--learn them so you can talk while looking at the audience. This is very important in terms of your grade.
8) Make outline notes for yourself, not full sentences, so you will be making up the sentences spontaneously as you talk. This helps you to stay in rapport with the audience. The skills you practice here are the same that will make you successful on your job.
9) Find a way of involving the audience. Ask a question, for example, and pick someone to answer. Or ask for a show of hands on "How many of you agree that X is the case?" Then make sure you ask someone to state their reason (this is important!).
10) If you have them fill out test items, use no more than two or three items (do not use a whole test since it takes away from your time and focus). Be sure to explain each item: How do you understand it and why it is considered to be a measure of that trait. Don't just give the audience a task--be sure to talk afterwards about what it means.
11) A couple of days after your first presentation, re-read the instructions above asking yourself which items you can improve on and how. Make notes for yourself.
12) Make notes for yourself after you read the email you receive from fellow classmates.
13) Read the Grading Criteria below. How would you evaluate yourself? Make notes for yourself.
●The notes you make for yourself will be essential for you when writing Report 3.
Second Oral Presentation
1) A couple of days after your first presentation, re-read the instructions above for the First Oral Presentation. Ask yourself which items you can improve on and how. Make notes for yourself.
2) Read the email you received from classmates. Consider any new points or the strengthening of old points. Make notes for yourself.
3) Prepare for your second presentation. Follow the steps above for your First Oral Presentation, including rehearsing and searching the Web for more advice.
4) Make notes for yourself after this presentation and when reading the new email from classmates.
5) Read the Grading Criteria below. How would you evaluate yourself? Make notes for yourself.
●The notes you make for yourself will be essential for you when writing Report 3.
Grading Criteria
a) Did you stay within the scheduled time (at least 19 and no more than to 22 minutes)?
b) Did you mix the content with your own opinion throughout the presentation?
c) Did you read full sentences from notes (not preferred), or did you use an outline to talk spontaneously from (preferable)?
d) Did you maintain appropriate eye contact with all of the audience during your entire presentation?
e) Did you succeed in involving the audience in some interactive task?
f) Was your content coherent with a specified goal, or disjointed and vague?
g) Did you act like you were well prepared?
h) Was your voice strong and clear, adequate for those sitting in the back?
i) Did you answer audience questions in a skilled way?
How to be a good audience member in a generalitonal learning community (5 points)
a) speak at least once in every class
b) look at the speaker and act like an audience (avoid looking down for long periods)
c) give others a chance to speak
d) make comments that are relevant to the topic
e) avoid making personal comments (this is a formal classroom setting but we all try to help each other as in a learning community)
e) send email to the speaker giving feedback from your perspective (we take responsibility for helping others in class)