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1. Take time to Play with powerpoint* Find the essence of your talk Focus on your main message

2. how to make beautiful slides and distract your audience completely.

3. Have you seen this before?

9. Website for previous slides http://www.engconfintl.org/powerpt.html

10. Part 3: Using PowerPoint Effectively

11. PowerPoint: Visuals • Images must be relevant and enhance the presentation in a meaningful way. • Tables, charts, and graphs should be easy to read and understand. The following slides, excerpted from “How to Avoid Death by PowerPoint” by Lisa Andion illustrate what not to do.

12. Large Paragraphs of Text Before you get started I'd like to share a few ideas regarding PowerPoint's capabilities and uses. PowerPoint is a powerful tool that enhances a presentation, providing the main points in a visually exciting way. It is a tool that is meant to supplement the speaker, not replace him or her. This is something that is very important to keep in mind. PowerPoint is meant to combine graphics with text to give the most effective presentation possible to an audience. Therefore, each slide in a presentation should contain at least one graphic with text. Here are a few general rule of thumb ideas to keep in mind while creating a Powerpoint Presentation… This is BIG no no!

13. IMPORTANT! ! ! ! Engineers and engineering students face many challenges throughout their studies. For many engineers, the greatest challenge seems to come when they try to put the results of their engineering efforts into the form of a scientific article. Some of them recall starting out in engineering – and how relieved they were when they started working with numbers instead of words. They think back on how they made their career choices: pondering upon formulas and working with concrete problems was the future for the engineer, working with words was relegated to English majors. Suddenly they find themselves in an intimidating position: before them is a computer with a blank screen, waiting for the words to fall into place. Unfortunately, for most of us – engineers or not – those words simply do not fall into place. But, also unfortunately, there is no sense in carrying out scientific work if that work does not get published. This is where I come in. I teach a course called “Scientific Publication”. to graduate students in engineering. The aim of the course is to provide the students with the opportunity to write various types of scientific texts, with emphasis on the genre of the primary scientific article. When engineers take a writing course, their main interest is in learning how to write a proper scientific article in English. It is important that engineers become a part of their own “discourse community”, and one of the ways to take part in the community of engineers is by writing like other engineers. They must learn the proper scientific genres. Thanks to writing researchers such as John Swales, Greg Myers, Charles Bazerman, Carol Berkenkotter and Thomas Huckin and many more, we have a great deal of information about how various scientific articles are written for various scientific fields. These researchers have analyzed thousands of scientific articles and have provided us with everything from basic patterns for the global structure of articles (IMRAD: Introduction, Material and Method, Results And Discussion) to local structure (e.g. Swales’ model for introductions, CARS: Create A Research Space (Swales, 199, p. 140)). Corpus studies have provided us with information about such details as the placement of new information in a sentence (Halliday) and the typical use of verb tense in specific sections of an article (e.g. in Penrose and Katz, 1998, p. 35).

14. Design Styles • Your presentation should have one design style applied to it, including background • This also includes font style, size, color and effects • Slides in this presentation are all different • How distracting is that?

15. AnimationEffects • Don’t Over Do It! • Too Distracting

16. Slide Transitions • Choose one Slide transition • Remember consistency across your presentation works best • Keep it simple!

17. PowerPoint: Text • Use text to back up your point and reinforce key terms and concepts • Keep text to a minimum • Use “white space” to set off blocks of text • Use bullet points as default text format • Make phrase structure parallel • Use assertion-evidence structure

18. Use space wisely Don’t clutter your slide. Use the 6 X 6 rule (no more than six words on no more than six lines) Men hva skal du gjøre med resten av plassen?

19. Make it easy to read • Line spacing is important, especially when you have more than one line of text in an entry. • Line spacing is important, too, especially when you have more than one line of text in an entry.

20. Benefits of Parallelism (Incorrect Example) • Clarity • It creates emphasis • Equal weight for equal items • The entire series is more prominent • Fluent, flowing • To help readers anticipate what’s next • Make progress through rhythm The bullet points above are not parallel. (Clarity is a noun, It creates emphasis is a phrase, and Fluent, flowing are adjectives.)

21. Benefits of Parallelism (Correct Example) • Clarity • Emphasis • Equal weight for equal items • Prominence for entire series • Fluency/Flow • Anticipation by readers • Progress through rhythm The bullet points on this slide (all nouns) are parallel. Doesn’t it read a bit more smoothly?

22. The Assertion-Evidence Structure • Because the purpose of the PowerPoint is to help the audience understand the content, rather than to provide talking points for the speaker, using the Assertion-Evidence Structure will help shape an argument-based presentation. • This structure often features a sentence-assertion headline supported by visual evidence.

23. Example of Visual Evidence

24. The Assertion-Evidence Structure is useful because: • It helps the audience understand the content of the presentation • It helps the audience engage with the speaker instead of just reading content on the presentation • It helps the speaker engage with the audience by having talking points but not scripting exactly what to say

25. Don’t Forget to Proofread Your Visuals! For a little practice writing effective PowerPoint slides, go back to slide 18, “Convert this Script!” See if you can rewrite that same paragraph into an appropriate PowerPoint slide.

26. Electron Tomography reconstruction of 3-D structure from a series of 2-D images

27. Switch Mode Power Supply • ATX Power Supply (450W) • 14cm x 15cm x 8.5cm • 250 W/l • Notebook Power Supply (70W) • 10.5cm x 4.5cm x 2.5cm • 600 W/l

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29. High Voltage DC Cables • Long distance cable transmission must be DC • Today insulation is paper and oil • Industry would like cross-bound polyethylene • Electrical properties affecting life length of the insulation need to be charted

30. Autonomic Computing Computing systems can manage themselves given high-level objectives from admin. • Self-configuration • Self-healing • Self-protection • Self-optimization

31. Autonomic Elements Actions in Autonomic Elements • Monitor • Analyze • Plan • Execute

32. Scrum: a method for organising project work

33. 0.26 Values of u plotted against time 0.24 0.22 Computational time = e.g. 1 sec 0.2 0.18 0.16 0 2000 4000 6000 reduction 0.24 0.22 Computational time = e.g. 0.1 sec 0.2 0.18 0.16 Important: u-trajectories should be the same 0 2000 4000 6000 Computational time reduction

34. u Variable Pump y Tank Reservoir Single tank system Fig. 1 The single tank system

35. Introduction Main part Conclusion & Implications

36. How is preparing an oral presentation like writing a paper? • Research • Overall Organization: • Introduction • Thesis Statement • Supporting information/proof (Body) • Conclusion

37. Structure Introduction • To catch interest • To present your main point • Give your audience time to adjust Methods and results Conclusion and implications

38. KISS • Keep it short, stupid • Keep it short and simple

39. Multipurpose Introductions • Hook the audience • Preview the content of the presentation • Establish common ground with the audience • Build credibility

40. Other things to remember clothing microphone pointer your voice back-up .pdf

41. Feedback on oral presentation 2 Is the slide easy to read/understand? (why/why not?) What is the best aspectofthe slide? Howcanthe slide be improved?