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9th
joint European summer school on technology-enhanced learning
Limassol, Cyprus
May 27, 2013
Mikhail Fominykh
Show me your PhD
and I'll show you mine
A workshop on
presenting and sharing research
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Academic languageAcademic language
o Complexity
o Formality
o Precision
o Objectivity
o Explicitness
o Accuracy
o Hedging
o Responsibility
From http://www.uefap.com/
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Awesome tips on how you could make
you slide (slide design)
o You can write as much text on the slide as you need, because you would like
everyone to read everything precisely as you think of it!
o You can use bulletin points to present multiple ideas related to the title of the
slide (use not more than 6 bulletins! – 6 RULE).
o Using different colours and fonts attract attention and makes your
presentation look coolcool. You should use them a lot to avoid being boring!
o Use a different font to emphasize important point
o Large fonts are good for stressing
Study Examples!
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Public speaking
The human brain starts
working the moment you
are born and never stops
until you stand up to
speak in public
George Jessel
Quote and photo from http://en.wikiquote.org/
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How to get a PhD?
Do excellent research
Share with a strategy
Search and be visible
Write like
Design slides like
Perform presentations like
Academics
Artists
Actors
You make science. Your little contribution is important!
Your little contribution is important!
And you deserve to be a successful researcher, to get a phd and to be a recognizable researcher.
a platform for academics to share research papers
Reference manager
Professional social network
A hub for your research, your expertise, your contacts
Presenting is challenging -> Presenting you won work is even more challenging, as the public can judge both the form and the content. Good news – you are smart, but you are good at you area of research, not in presenting/acting.
Standard conference presentation. What do you think of when you hear “Presentation”? Slides?
Enhanced conference presentation
Is the story = to the article contents? These is what the conference presentations (SPEECHES/STORIES) usually look like. These is what the academic audience usually wants to hear, but this is also what they hear every time, so they don’t want to hear ONLY that.
Why? Because if you present the article contents, it is dry like reading a document aloud. Even someone from the audience thinks that the presentation is interesting, they’d rather read the paper.