Are you someone who shakes, paces, or fidgets during a presentation?  That's extra adrenaline that your body is trying to get rid of!  Here are two tips for getting rid of that pre-speaking adrenaline:

1. Tap your foot under the table while you are waiting for your turn.

2. Squeeze the table as hard as you can while you are waiting for your presentation.  

Do you have students who really need an alternative to traditional presentations?  Try Talking Presentations on Canva.

Natalie's Pronunciation Padlet

It's important to build a culture of trust in the classroom- this helps students feel less nervous and more comfortable when presenting.  You can do this in bite sized chunks to build up stamina.  Here are 4 Mini ways to practice presentations:

1. Start in pairs that students choose.  Have them spend a minute or less "presenting" to each other on a topic of their choice.  

2. Repeat those activities, but make the groups a little bigger, and/or don't let them choose the groups.

3. Make it goofy!  Do the "Sell This Product!" activity.  Bring in old magazines, have each student choose one, then "sell" the product to the group for 2 min.  Reasons for buying the product can be silly or serious- the point is to talk in front of people.

4. Get students moving!  Put 5 post-its on the floor.  Students have to get to all five in their 90 second speech.  When you make a new point, move to a new post-it.  Pace yourself- you can't get to the last post it until the end of the 90 seconds.

Canva has beautiful slides templates.  If you want to stick with Google Slides, try some templates from SlidesGo or Slides Carnival.

The Three Bullet Point Rule: no more than three bullet points of text on each slide.

Speaker Coach- How To & Why To

1. These are the instructions to give your students for getting their Canva or Google Slides into powerpoint.  Bonus tip: if students are working in a group, only one student needs to upload their slides into OneDrive.  That student can then share the link with their group members.

2. Natalie's reflection assignment

Natalie mentioned that next time she wants to do a video analysis.  Students have cameras built into their devices.  They can record directly to their device, or they can use a program like Canva or Flip.