Presentations that Don’t Suck (and that are creative and connect with others)!

This is an opportunity to practise, share, um, ah, chortle, blather and go blank in a supportive and creative environment with a view developing your own presentation style and adjusting it for different contexts.

Review a couple of these resources.

• Bartlett A (n.d.) A white-label slide deck, alicebartlett.co.uk, https://alicebartlett.co.uk/blog/how-to-do-ok-at-slides, accessed 6 February 2020.
• Giles Turnbull (n.d.) ‘Presenting is performance’, https://gilest.org/presenting-is-performance.html, accessed 30 October 2019.
• Matthew Sheret (n.d.) ‘Giving clear presentations’, Government Digital Service, https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2016/04/07/giving-clear-presentations/, accessed 30 October 2019.
• Russell Davies (n.d.) ‘Doing the hard work to make it bearable’, https://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2015/06/doing-the-hard-work-to-make-it-bearable.html, accessed 30 October 2019a.
• —— (n.d.) ‘Doing the hard work to make it big’, https://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2015/06/doing-the-hard-work-to-make-it-big.html, accessed 30 October 2019b.
• —— (n.d.) ‘Doing the hard work to make it clear’, https://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2015/06/doing-the-hard-work-to-make-it-clear.html, accessed 30 October 2019c.
• —— (n.d.) ‘One more thing’, https://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2015/07/one-more-thing.html, accessed 30 October 2019d.

1. What makes a great and not so great presentation?
2. What alternatives are there to leaning on a wall of text
3. How to develop Acknowledgements of Country that are creative and connect with others.
4. How to provide real feedback.

1. Show how will integrate the ideas and skills from the workshop into your learning portfolio presentation.
2. Develop a series of Acknowledgements of Country.