The document provides guidance on effective public speaking and presentation skills. It discusses choosing a topic, making eye contact with the audience, using gestures and body language, pacing, and handling questions from the audience. It notes that only 7% of a presentation's impact comes from its content, while 38% is from the presenter's voice and 55% from their body language. Presenters are advised to practice and be prepared to present with or without visual aids. Audience members are told to provide feedback using the "sandwich method" of compliment, criticism, compliment.

1. Zinayida Petrushyna
Chair of Computer Science 5 – Databases & Information Systems,
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Ana Loureiro
Department Educative Technologies, School of Education - Polytechnic Institute of Santarém
Fellow Researcher @ CIDTFF - University of Aveiro
8th Joint European Summer School on TEL
May 24, 2012, Estoril, Portugal

2.  The beginning :
 „when i was in MIT“
 allusions of famous people
 The middle : impress audience with how much data do you have
 The end : make generalizations
 The question and answer period :
„That is extremely perceptive question
which we have, of course, considered but
which we discarded for obvious reasons.“
Meshnick,Steven R. and Eaton, John W.(1989) „How to give a scientific talk“, The Red Cell.
Seventh Ann Arbor Conference

3.  Eye contact
 Open body language
 Gestures
 Usage of tools
 Pauses
 Audience
 „Ask your audience to count 2+2!“ – Billy Wilders
7% content - 38% voice - 55% body language
Mehrabian, Albert (1971). Silent Messages (1st ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

4. For speakers:
 Pick up your topic.
 You have one minute to talk about the fact stated in your piece of
paper. Start as soon as you read the statement. Don‘t forget basics
of the presentation skills.
For audience:
 Give feedback.
 Use sandwich principle:
notice good points, after that talk
about some bad points of the presentation
and end up with good points again.

5.  No passive
„Yes, we can!“
 Verbs are better
 Neutral can be seen as negative
„We may check this approach“
 Short vs. long sentences

6.  A narrative with historical background
 Crisis
 A disappointment/frustration
 A Possibility
 A crossroad
 A challenge
Atkinson, Cliff(2005). Erzählen statt Aufzählen. Microsoft Press Deutschland

7. We are looking back to an event or a process within which something
important was created or found. And we keep this line.
Example: Describe the process of classical beer brewing and go on with
your DIY approach of brewing.

8. We should react on dangers that threaten us.
Example: We are threatened by garbage islands appearing all over the
world. Engineers are looking for new recycling techniques to avoid
ecological catastrophe.

9. We made a decision based on the data we had. Now we know that the
decision was not correct and we are looking for alternatives.
Example: Accidents on nuclear power plants made a lot of European
politicians to rethink decisions concerning nuclear power in their countries
and support the development of alternative energy technologies.

10. We know more than before and see new possibilities that we can try.
Example: The appearance of Semantic Web and Linked Data initiative let us
semantically compare content in information systems.

11. We managed to solve our problems by well-established processes or
techniques but now there are alternatives that we can consider and we
should decide what techniques we should choose.
Example: constructivism and social constructivism

12. Somebody else managed to perform something challenging that affect our
work. Can we do the same? Can we do better?
Example: First water-resistant smartphone manufacture established the
new niche in the market of mobile phone products and engaged other mobile
makers in to developing water-resistant smartphones.

13. Describe an example or a use case from your
thesis using one of the story types.

14.  Where are you going to
present?
Check the room:
where the audience sits;
where are the lights;
where are you going to stand.
 Who is your audience?
 What are you presenting?
Train your speech.
 How are you presenting?
Check your tools and be ready
to present without tools if any
technical problem appears.