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172 lines
9.1 KiB
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\begin{document}
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\hrule \medskip
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\begin{minipage}{0.295\textwidth}
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\raggedright
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\footnotesize
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Name: Andrew Hayes \\
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E-mail: \href{mailto://a.hayes18@universityofgalway.ie}{\texttt{a.hayes18@universityofgalway.ie}} \hfill\\
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ID: 21321503 \hfill
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\end{minipage}
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\begin{minipage}{0.4\textwidth}
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\centering
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\vspace{0.4em}
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\Large
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\textbf{CT3112} \\
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\end{minipage}
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\begin{minipage}{0.295\textwidth}
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\today
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\begin{center}
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\normalsize
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Assignment 01: Presentation Skills
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\end{center}
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\hrule
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\section{Preparation \& Planning}
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The first thing that I considered when I was planning this presentation was my role as a presenter: what information do
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I want to convey, and how best to convey it?
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After I had chosen my topic (why Vim is my favourite text editor), I asked myself the 6 question: Why, Who, Where, When,
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What, \& How.
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Most of the time I spent on this presentation was on the preparation \& planning.
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I tried to follow the 5:1 ratio: since my presentation was to be 20 minutes long, I prepared for just over 100 minutes.
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\begin{itemize}
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\item ``\textbf{Why} am I making this presentation? What is it's purpose?''
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I decided that the purpose of my presentation would be to inform someone about what Vim is, how it works,
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and whether or not Vim might be the right text editor for them.
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I wanted to inform \& empower the listener to facilitate them beginning their own journey using Vim as their
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text editor.
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\item ``\textbf{Who} is this presentation for?''
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I decided that I wanted my presentation to be accessible to all people, not just those with a Computer
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Science background.
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This informed a lot of my decisions throughout the presentation as to how much detail to go into: I wanted
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to make sure that anybody could listen to and follow along with my presentation if they were interested in
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it.
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\item ``\textbf{Where} will this presentation be delivered?''
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The constraints of this assignment dictated that the presentation be submitted as a pre-recorded video,
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meaning that I could not have any audience participation or Q\&A sessions.
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Because there could be no audience interaction in my presentation, I felt that it was important I made sure
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my presentation wasn't just a boring ``death by PowerPoint'' slide after slide of plain text, so I decided
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to regularly switch from the presentation slides to a practical demonstration, to keep it engaging \&
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interesting for the listener.
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\item ``\textbf{When} will this presentation be delivered?''
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Unfortunately, due to the pre-recorded nature of the presentation, I have no control and no knowledge over
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when the audience would be seeing my presentation.
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If I did have control over this, I would pick the morning-time, when the audience is most awake, alert, \&
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interested so the risk of me boring them or the information going over their heads is at its lowest, but
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since I didn't have control, I had to prepare for the worst-case scenario.
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I had to assume the audience would be bored, hungry, \& tired when viewing my presentation, so I aimed to
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make it as engaging, concise, and interesting as I possibly could.
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\item ``\textbf{What} do I want to present?''
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Once I knew what my purpose, audience, and constraints were, I needed to consider what information I
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actually wanted to present to the audience.
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I decided that I wanted a short, pithy, \& concise overview of the subject, with minimal digressions and
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plenty of practical examples \& demonstrations, as I felt that this fit my purpose the best.
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\item ``\textbf{How} do I want to present my information?
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As I was limited to a pre-recorded video, I unfortunately was not able to walk around a stage to make my
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presentation more visually interesting or something similar.
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I had to focus my effort on the appearance of my presentation slides and the manner in which I conveyed
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information.
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I decided to keep my slides as minimal as possible, only inserting images where I thought it was important
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and avoiding putting huge walls of texts on the slides, just bullet points.
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I decided not to use many images as I wanted to keep the slide deck short, and I felt that me switching to
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demonstrations regularly would make up for the lack of colour in my slides, instead allowing them to be
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streamlined and filled with only the most important \& relevant information.
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Since there was no camera on me, just the audio from my laptop microphone, I tried to speak clearly \&
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loudly, and tried my best to avoid lip-smacking or saying ``uhhh'' excessively to allow for a more pleasant
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listening experience.
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\end{itemize}
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\subsection{Structuring}
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I wrote my presentation in the following order:
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\begin{enumerate}
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\item Purpose \& Objective.
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\item Middle: main content.
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\item End: Summary, conclusions, \& recommendations.
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\item Beginning: Introduction/Opening.
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\end{enumerate}
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After I had my purpose \& objective determined, I set to writing the ``middle part'', or the slides that would
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constitute the bulk of the information in the presentation.
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I also loosely scripted the demonstrations that I wanted to perform, and when I wanted to perform them, which I had as
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cue cards off-screen.
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\\\\
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Then, once I had my content completed, I wrote a conclusion / summary of all the information that I had presented, and
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wrote a slide where I recommended whether or not the listener should use Vim, and some alternatives that they might be
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interested in.
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I decided to move the slide in which I explain how to get set up with Vim at the very end of the presentation, just
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before the summary, as I felt that it was important to tell the audience whether or not they should be interested in
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setting up Vim for their own use before telling them how to set it up.
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I believe that this ensured that I maximised the audience engagement and retention, and maintained chronological
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ordering.
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\\\\
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I also considered the barriers that might exist to effective communication: language, cultural, \& technological.
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In particular, I tried to minimise the technological barriers, as I was speaking about a program that was typically only
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used by programmers \& computer scientists, so I wanted to make sure the information was presented in a way that was
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accessible to everyone.
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\\\\
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Finally, once I had all other content written, I wrote the introductory slides to the topic, which was much easier now
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that I knew exactly what content I was introducing.
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In the past, I wrote the introductions first, and then had to go back and edit them as my content changed, so writing
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the introduction last was a real game-changer for me, and something that I will continue to do into the future.
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\\\\
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My goal was to make the content logical, well-structured, \& easy to follow, starting with simple introductory concepts,
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and slowly progressing to the complex in an incremental manner.
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I tried to give each slide a clear \& concise heading to provide structure to the presentation and to make each point
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flow smoothly \& logically to the next point
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\section{Presenting}
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When I was presenting my slides, I wanted to make sure that I was providing more information than just reading off the
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slides, so I added extra information \& demonstrations as I saw fit as I went along, in a loosely-scripted manner.
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I tried to ensure that my information \& speech was clear, concise, and as brief as possible without being too short to
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convey the information clearly.
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\end{document}
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