Communicating your technical ideas is an important skill for your professional practice. The general mechanics of preparing the presentation and delivering it apply to technical presentations. This lesson will highlight some faults that are present in poor presentations, and then concentrate on the preparation of the presentation, arguably the most important aspect, and some details for the technial presentations that you will make in this course.
Learning Outcomes
Deliver well-structured presentations on the design of the term project.
Create slides to support the presentations using appropriate text and graphics.
Study Resources
For your study of this topic, use some of these resources.
Presentation Skills for Technical Professionals: Achieving Excellence
by Naomi Karten available on O'Reilly through the RIT library (REMEMBER that you MUST LOGIN via RIT for this to work!). Another book with a lot of good material about the mechanics of giving a presentation. The first chapters provide good overview of some aspects of making a presentation.
Read through the first chapters in Presentation Skills for Technical Professionals to get more information for preparing and making your presentation. And if presentations are a source of anxiety for you, the chapter on taming anxiety may be helpful.
You will make a presentation about the design of your term project as part of your Sprint 4 submission. You can find guidance for the presentation here.
