This presentation was aimed to guide and help us with confidence when presenting our work in front of a larger audience, for example in the final critiques. We went over presentation and technical skills, as well as talking about anxiety and general tips that can be useful when holding a presentation. I’ve listed the general advice I found to be most useful to myself below. 

Key points that make a good presentation:

• Not reading off the slides for long periods of time (useful to have more images over words to stop this from happening)
• Bullet points over large paragraphs 
• Planning / logical order / layout 
• No jargon / consider your audience / use the right language 
• Practice !!
• Narrative > one thing to come away with > what’s the relevance & what do I want people to get out of this

We were then given a quick task to complete with a partner, which involved reading an article and then holding a brief one-minute presentation about this article. We only had 10 minutes to prepare for this which was a very limited amount of time to present a story in an exciting and persuasive way to an audience. Once every pair presented their article we took part in another short exercise, which involved everyone sitting in a circle and mentioning pros and cons in relation to the one-minute presentation. A way of making sure everyone had a turn in saying a point was by throwing a ball of wool across the group. This was a fun and engaging activity and it was very useful to hear everyone’s feedback and will help me in my future presentations.