As we discussed in last week’s class, engaging your audience can mean the difference between an effective presentation and a boring and disinterested audience. As you prepare for your backcountry disease presentations,
1. Think about and describe a situation in which you were in the audience and you were engaged, interested and became excited by a presenter or presentation. Describe why you think you were engaged – what made it interesting to you?
2. Research some techniques that can be used to engage your audience. List the techniques we discussed in class as well as three others that you find in your research.
3. Explain how your presentation is coming along so far and the steps you have been taking in planning.
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This one time I went to class to see that my teacher was making everyone breakfast, I knew he had to be going somewhere with it other wise why would he go through all the effort of cooking for us so he had my full attention from there on.
Describe a scene or a character.
Tell a story.
Share a personal experience.
Relate to a recent event.
Piggyback on a previous speaker’s remark or theme.
Point out something important about the audience or the current setting.
Show a compelling visual image.
Ask a provocative question.
State a fact that is troubling, amusing, or remarkable.
Spell out what’s at stake for your listeners.
Offer a humorous observation or anecdote.
Explain your own interest in the topic.
Tell listeners what the topic has to do with them.
So far my presentation is going ok I have all of the written work done but I still unsure of how I am going to engage the audience I have looked at a few of the sites but it hasn’t been much help. It’s hard to incorporate these different techniques with my subject.
The best examples of when I was engaged and involved in a presentation were probably in my upper level A.K.A. 300 and 400 level philosophy classes. The classes were small and the topics complex sometimes and always debatable. There were two professors in particular that always had interesting classes, Acampoura and Howard, the first specializing in modern continental philosophy and the later in political philosophy. As you can imagine political philosophy can get people involved and arguing, but I remember rather vividly a discussion in my Modern Continental Philosophy on Language class on whether Wittgenstein was right when he said that a picture could not picture picturing and whether or not Rene Magritte’s C’est ci N’est pas Une Pipe (sp?), good times.
Engage the audience—get them interested, give them a reason to listen. How?
Describe a scene or a character.
Tell a story.
Share a personal experience.
Relate to a recent event.
Piggyback on a previous speaker’s remark or theme.
Point out something important about the audience or the current setting.
Show a compelling visual image.
Ask a provocative question.
State a fact that is troubling, amusing, or remarkable.
Spell out what’s at stake for your listeners.
Offer a humorous observation or anecdote.
Explain your own interest in the topic.
Tell listeners what the topic has to do with them.
From-http://academics.hamilton.edu/occ/EngagingYourAudience.pdf
Now how is my project coming? Eh. Plenty of information out there, I even found a great page specifically addressing the backcountry situation on the Yosemite Association’s site. However I am not good at translating that information into a “non-traditional” learning experience. In say job training situations I prefer to simply give a brief outline of the basics then keep an eye out and give advice and help as needed until the newbie can swim on their own.
-Structure of Rabies
The rabies virus is bullet shaped and is about 180 nm long and has a diameter of about 75nm.
-How Rabies is spread
Rabies is spread throw a infected animal biting a human the main culprits are bats.
-Detection
Rabies is not possible to diagnose in the field until it is too late for the victim.
-Symptoms
Causes encephalitis, difficulty swallowing, panic when presented with liquids to drink and an unquenchable thirst. The victim will die within two too ten days after first symptom.
-Treatment of Rabies
Treatment of the Rabies virus must began within fourteen day after the bite and involves injecting the victim with one dose of immunoglobulin in to shots one at the bite and the other farther away from the bite the treatment also includes five doses of Rabies vixen
There was this one time when i was realy intreaged by the way one of my teachers taught, cause they would always make a game out of it. Of course this was when i was little but it made the topic fun and interesting, and kept us thinking at all times.
*show a visual image
*socrative questioning
*point out something interesting about the current setting
*inform the audience how the topic relates to them
*tell a story
*share a personal experience
*relate to a recent event
*provide them with food thet relates to the topic
*piggyback on a previous speaker's remark or theme
*offer a humorous observation
As for my presentation it is comming along ok, i've made my quis and handout for the class, but now have to come up with a way of catching the audiences attention. I cant really use food that relates to it since i have lyme disease.
There was once a group of guys that traveled around Maine and New England; they were body builders promoting not using drugs and such. But at one point in their presentation, they decided to rip a phone book in half to show how awesome they were without using drugs. I remember this because, one it caught my attention, and of course because it was awesome. But I guess it made me interested in these guys because they were so huge, probably pumped up on roids or something, but they made their presentation towards our age group so they had some volunteers and such so that it kept every one awake and alert. Yeah, they were cool at the time, but when it was over, they were not as interesting because their whole presentational skills could of have improved for a better overall production.
-Telling a story
-making some food
-Relating some coming interest or influences
-Categorizing
-Ask a provocative Question
- Relate
- Showing compelling visual images
- Tell a story
My project, as of 6:43am is finish. But it was a process going through all this information about Staph food poisoning. At first I thought it would have been easier getting the information, but when you run into things such as different strands of staph, things started to get a little bit harder weaning out all the information that does not even affect what I’m looking for. But the steps I took breaking it into parts so I could really start thinking how I wanted to do my project and presentation. So I did my research on Wednesday so I could start formulating a presentation. And on Thursday I finished making everything else such as the quiz and the hand out making my project part done. The only problems I have really run into are trying to have an “engaging” presentation.
I think that the most engageing prentation i have experianced was when I walkeed into class to find my teacher was cooking egg sandwichs for the class. this put me in an exceptional mood and as a result i was very interested with the presentatin about E coli and was able to pay attention the whole time. I liked this because it was a plesent suprise to the class that i never expected.
ways to engage your audience:
1. skits
2. food
3. socratic questioning
4. share a personal experience
5. tell a story
6. piggy back off something another person said
7. talk about own intrest in topic
8. offer an humerous anecdote
My presentation is compleatly finished. to prepare for the skit i have been running ideas through my head. finally i settled on one so i have been reciteing it to make sure it will work. also to work out all the kinks.
When I started welding I had to take safety test. So are teacher brought us coffee and donut. Before we had to test.
Telling a story
making some food
Categorizing
Ask a provocative Question
Relate
showing compelling visual images
telling a story
I am dun and ready to teach
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