Unit 2.4.0 - Presentation Skills

Learning to Give Awesome Presentations

Regardless of your job or profession, you will have opportunities to present. You might have to present a project status, pitch a new product or present a persuasive message to change the opinions, plans, or direction of a company or project.

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Unit: Career Development - Profesional Development
- Module: Presentation Skills - Resources
This is a LEARNING Activity : Lesson / Lab

Last Revised: Feb 7, 2022 - Authored: June 15, 2021
Original Author: Jim Burnham - TopClown@STEAMClown.org
Content License: Distributed as Open Source. See Rights & Usage

Overview, Introduction & Prerequisites:

Presentation Skills: Regardless of your job or profession, you will have opportunities to present. You might have to present a project status, pitch a new product or present a persuasive message to change the opinions, plans, or direction of a company or project.

No explicit prerequisite course work or coding knowledge is required, but students are expected to have some understanding of the basic use of tools like Google Slides and Google Docs or similar tools.

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Learning Objective:

Module Scope:

Teach Presentation Skills

Learning Targets:

Able to describe how to create best in class slides presentations
Understand and be able to apply Live/Remote Presenter Skills
know where to get help creating slides, and to be a better Presenter

Prior Knowledge:

No prior knowledge expected - You be you!!!

Resources & Materials Needed:

PC, Laptop, or Other devices to access the Presentation creation tools & application
Each lesson will have specific items needed to complete the labs and tasks

Prerequisites:

No explicit prerequisite course work or coding knowledge is required, but students are expected to have some understanding of the basic use of tools like Google Slides and Google Docs or similar tools.

Caution & Safety Considerations:

Primer: "Aaron, I can imagine no way in which this thing could be considered anywhere remotely close to safe. All I know is I spent six hours in there and I'm still alive... You still want to do it?"

As with any activity, please make sure you are using appropriate safety equipment. If you are coding, writing, reading, or working a lab, make sure you stand up and stretch every hour or so, Please consider any safety issues connecting to a Raspberry Pi, Arduino, computers and other electronic equipment.

Essential Questions:

Key Academic Vocabulary or Concepts:

Lesson Topic - Presentation Skills:

What Makes a Good Presenter?

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Presentation Skills Overview and Description of Resources.

Humans and even other intelligent animals innately understand the concept of Whole Numbers. We can clearly understand the concept of "How Many" when we look at these two piles of Jelly Beans.

We may not immediately know how many beans are in the big pile, but we absolutely know that there are way more than 5.

And to find out we can easily start at 1 and then count each... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14... 93. That's what I think... I think there are 93.

What Do You Already Know? Take This Pre-Quiz To Find Out:

Take the Pre-Quiz to get a better self assessment. Sometimes we feel like we already know a topic, and maybe we can just do a quick review. Other times we find we need to go a little deeper. By taking a quick self assessment, you can measure how much effort you need to put into this section.

Whole Number Pre-Quiz

If you scored 79% or less, you should probably spend a 20-30 min reviewing this section. Even if you scored 100%, it can't hurt to spend 10-15 min.

Lesson Resources:

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Mathematics for Technology - Sites You Should Register, Get An Account or Sign-up for:

Khan Academy - Pre Algebra
Learn pre-algebra for free—all of the basic arithmetic and geometry skills needed for algebra. Full curriculum of exercises and videos.

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Reference Text Book - Basic College Mathematics with Early Integers 4th edition - Elayn Martin-Gay - University of New Orleans - Pearson
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