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Title: How To Give A Scientific Seminar Michelle Chow Ocean Discovery! Sebastopol, CA


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How To Give A Scientific SeminarMichelle
ChowOcean Discovery!Sebastopol, CA
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Overview
  • Verbal and Nonverbal Communication
  • How To on Project Presentations

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Nonverbal Communicationbody movement and
expression
  • Face audience
  • Make eye contact
  • Appropriate facial expressions
  • Body movement (pacing, swaying)
  • Dress appropriately

4
Verbal Communication
  • Speak at a reasonable pace
  • Intonation (tone of voice, use of voice)
  • Pause when needed
  • Avoid excessive use of um or like or so

5
Suggestions for Practicing
  • Practice at least three times!!!
  • Get feedback from your peers.
  • Before you start to speak take a few seconds to
    organize your thoughts, notes and equipment.

6
Appearance of your slides You want people to
focus on your message
  • Use a simple design for your slides. This is a
    professional seminar.
  • Text must not fade into background.
  • Choose an appropriate font that can be read from
    the back of the room.
  • Size 32 36 for bulleted text
  • Size 44 48 for titles

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  • Each slides does not need to have a title.
    Especially if a title is redundant or obvious.
  • Spread bullets apart to avoid readers brain
    overload.
  • Paragraphspacing6-12 pt after paragraph.
  • Pictures and graphs should take up the whole
    slide. Axes text and statistics hard to read
    from back of room.

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Michelles Dont List
  • Clip art when not appropriately used (which is
    most of the time).
  • Slides and lines that zip in and out of space.
    Please have all your text on the slide at the
    same time.
  • All slides should transition appropriately (use
    no transition or fade at fast speed)
  • No music, unless you are studying dolphins and
    are recording their mating calls.

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Planning the package
  • Know your audience
  • Define terms
  • Provide an overview if complex
  • Integrate text and images
  • map of study area, distribution
  • understand overall idea/theory/topic
  • images of organism/scientific name
  • repeat the question if necessary

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Planning the package
  • Clear purpose/logical sequence
  • Consistency in style and language
  • Bulleted information
  • Prompts for speaker and audience
  • Time yourself 1 frame /minute
  • Leave time for questions
  • Dont read your talk

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Techniques that help
  • Memorize opening sentence
  • Note cards
  • Tough question?
  • anticipate questions that poke holes
  • anticipate future direction questions
  • repeat the question
  • Thats a good question
  • I dont know but

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Advice to Fellows
  • Practice within a group and then between groups.
  • Bring laser pointer into class to demonstrate how
    to use it correctly
  • Remind students they will be using a microphone

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More advice
  • Everything presented verbally or visually should
    have a clear role in support of the central
    thesis or theses of the talk.
  • If anything doesnt do this, remove it. borders,
    animations, clipart, etc

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Listeners Responsibility
  • No talking
  • Listen closely
  • Think of at least one question to ask speaker
  • Stay awake (no sleeping) and engaged during the
    talk

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Presentation Title
your name School affiliation city state
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Introduction
  • Introduce topic, big picture. Why?
  • Explain how you reached your questions/hypotheses.
  • Define scientific terms. Use scientific names for
    organisms.
  • Visual Aids (slides of organisms)
  • List questions your study addresses.

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Methods
  • Summarize methods Use methods as an explanation
    of how you addressed your questions.
  • Visual Aids (pictures of study sites or setup is
    most effective).
  • Organize methods to help audience easily follow
    your research.

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Flow Chart for Presentation Organization
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Results
  • Use tables and/or figures to present data.
  • Avoid verbalizing too many numerical values
    (especially without visual aids).
  • Show audience only data and results that are
    important in addressing your questions.
  • Remind audience how each method or result fits
    back to the questions of your study.

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Discussion
  • Talk about results with respect to
    Your studys questions

    Past research
  • Make logical conclusions about your research
    findings.
  • Visual Aids (refer back to tables and figures
    used in results)

22
Conclusions
  • Visual Aid Outline of questions from
    introduction with acceptance or rejection of null
    hypothesis.
  • Big picture
  • Future research
  • Acknowledgements

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Your brain starts working the moment you are
born, and doesnt stop until you have to speak in
public.
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