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Demonstration Speech
Finding a Good Topic and Planning for Succes
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Work from Your Strengths
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Demonstrate something that you know very well and like
doing.
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From your career area.
From your hobbies or interests.
Make sure it is practical.
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Does the demo fit in the allowable time?
Can you set up and break down quickly?
How much equipment and material can you handle? Will you
need an assistant?
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Will They Be Interested?
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Remember your audience analysis.
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What questions will the audience have?
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Can you hold their attention while processes take place?
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Strategies for involvement.
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Build Your House
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foundation is the topic: “ I want to demonstrate
how to make chili.”
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walls come next with a central idea: “It is good
to know how to make chili because it is simple to
do, tastes great and feeds a lot of people.”
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front door is why it is important to the
audience: “With good chili you can throw a great
party without a lot of work and they will love you.”
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roof is the demo. Show them!
 Beware
the wrecking ball. What can go wrong?
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Items of Concern
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What can go wrong and how can I prevent it?
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Will it make a mess?
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This is way to complicated! Can you break it down?
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Does it need special conditions? Hot, cold, wet, dry? Does it
need to be fed?
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Nothing that explodes, needs fire, can be shot or bites.
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Demonstration Speeches
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Above all else – demonstration speeches are SPEECHES!
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They have:
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An introduction
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A body
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A conclusion
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They have transitions
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And, they have supporting evidence.
They should NOT have dead air time!
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Teaches. . .
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Provides answers to the question “How do you do that?”
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Also known as “how to” speech.
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Type of informative speech.
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Memorable Close
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Even though you are showing the audience how to do something, you
still need an enticing attention getter (an introduction) and a memorable
close (conclusion).
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Preparing a Demonstration
Speech
Think
first. . .
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What are the required steps or stages
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What comes first?
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What’s absolutely essential?
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Which step is easiest?
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Which step is hardest?
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What does the audience already know how to do?
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Where will the audience be most likely to get confused?
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Which step takes the most time?
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Which take very little time?
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Organizing a Demonstration
Speech
Then plan. . .
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Organize steps in order.
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Clarify and simplify difficult steps.
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Think about the physical space of the room.
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Don’t forget to put stage directions on your index cards or outline.
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Audience Participation
Be in control. . .
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Only use audience participation that is practiced ahead of time or is
highly controlled.
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Don’t Assume You Know
Think again. . .
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Just because you are demonstrating something you know how to
do…doesn’t mean you can automatically explain it to an audience.
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Visual Aids
Plan again. . .
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What actual objects will you need.
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What gaps will you need to fill in.
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Practice working with your props.
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Abstract versus Concrete
Avoid potholes. . .
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Abstract Topics: Challenge is to make it visual.
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Concrete Topics: Challenge is to make it new and different.
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Condensing Time
Create stages. . .
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Prepare several different versions of the items at different points in
the process.
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Answer THE Two Audience
Questions
Why
should I care?
Why
should I believe you?
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Practice Canon is Key
Rehearsal is one of the keys to delivering an effective demonstration
speech.
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Demonstration Speeches
 Make
sure you choose a topic that is narrow or big enough
that you can actually demonstrate it in 5-8 minutes.
 Can
your topic be broken down into steps? If not, think
again!
 Prepare
 No
ahead of time non-essential steps.
dead air time!
 Modify
the demonstration.
 Have
a completed sample.
 Don’t
talk to you visual aid.
 Preprint
& hand out later directions or recipe.
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Demonstration Speeches – con’t.
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Include your audience.
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Don’t use jargon or technical terms. Or, explain! ! !
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No last minute volunteers – plan ahead!
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Make sure it is a speech –
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Introduction
Body
Conclusion
Transitions
Supporting Evidence
Practice, practice, practice!
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What is public speaking?
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Public speaking is anytime you have to speak in public!
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Speaking in public scares more Americans than going to the
dentist, falling, or death!
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This presentation will give you public speaking basics and
help you realize some good multimedia presentation skills at
the same time.
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Fears…
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While most people fear public
speaking there are some very
simple ways to get around it…
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Practice
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Practice
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Practice
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By practicing you get around the
reason for the fear: saying
something stupid or messing up
in front of people.
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Before the presentation…
Preparation is key!
 Figure out a thesis for your paper.
 Write down the structure for your
presentation.
 Introduction, body, and
conclusion.
 Read it out loud.
 Edit your writing.
 Read it out loud again.
 Put it into your presentation.
 Practice again.
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Basics of Public Speaking
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Know your topic
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Know your audience
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If you try to do what your friends would do, you will mess up. Just be yourself and you
will feel the most comfortable!
Stay on point
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A hook is an interesting, funny, or creative beginning to your presentation. The first 30
seconds of a presentation are very important, so a good hook will keep your audience
focused.
Be yourself
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What do they find funny? What are they interested in? What would they like to hear
about your topic?
Find a hook
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Your are the expert of the topic you have chosen.
Nobody in the room knows more than you so make sure that you know it thoroughly so
you can teach others.
Do not discuss topics that are not important to your presentation. They will distract your
audience and you will lose your focus.
Do not repeat yourself
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Do not repeat yourself.  Repeating a point more than a few times sounds as if you do
not have anything else to say. So avoid repetition.
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•Project
a calm, confident
tone while speaking.
•You
are the expert on the
topic, so you have nothing
to worry about!
Confidence
•Audience members can
tell when you are nervous
or do not know what you
are talking about.
•Confidence
can be
gained through good
preparation and effective
practicing.
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Tips
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Attitude is everything!
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Preparation is key
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Confidence comes with practice
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Refer to sources correctly
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First 30 seconds are the most important!
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You will need to have outside sources for your information in the
presentation. Make sure to know how to pronounce names and the
author’s main idea correctly.
This is the hook.
If you have a creative, witty, or interesting introduction, you can hold
the audience’s attention for the rest of the presentation.
Strong conclusion
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Just like the introduction, have a strong message the audience can
take away from your presentation.
Avoid just repeating your introduction and your thesis statement.
Action statements make good conclusions.
Now… Presentation basics
You have just worked your way through a multimedia presentation.
Now you are going to learn how to construct a multimedia
presentation!
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First, a tutorial.
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There are 6 tips for all multimedia
presentations. Before you can
start that, however, you should
become familiar with how the
presentation program works. If
you are new to the program,
please click here.
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6 Power point tips
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Have consistent slide
backgrounds.
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Contrast helps people
see your presentation.
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Animation adds some
flavor.
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Make it large!
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Too many words turns
your audience off.
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Images are important!
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Consistency
 Having
a consistent
background adds to
your presentation.
 An
easy way to distract
your audience is by
having your slide
background constantly
change.
 You
want to seem in
charge of your
presentation, so keep
the design simple and
consistent.
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Contrast
 Contrast
is when two
colors are put next to
each other which are
very different from one
another.
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example green and
blue or black and white.
 Look
at the boxes to the
right. Which one is
easier to view?
 The
greater the contrast,
the better your audience
will be able to read your
slide.
Can you
read me
now?
Can you read
me now?
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Animation
 Animation
Too many words?
Animation can
help improve a
slide!
Too many words?
Animation can
help improve a
slide!
can assist in
a given situation, but
too much can distract.
 Animation
can be for an
image or letters in a
slide or between slides.
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are two types of
animation to the left;
which one is more
distracting?
 Use
animation to give
some flavor to a slide
that is a little flat.
Large…
Notice that in this slide everything is large and easy to see.
Making your words and pictures large is very important when
working with power point!
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Wordy Slides…
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Multimedia presentations are visual
tools. It is not a good tool to use if
you have too much to say.
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So keep your words to a minimum.
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This slide has quite a few words,
some may say too many.
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They are easy to read, however,
because they are large enough.
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Also, the addition of the fish
animation adds to the slide.
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A multimedia presentation is not a
chance for you to write a paper. It
is a chance to give a summary of
the main points of a paper.
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Use bullet points to break up the
writing.
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Images…
 Images
are important to
a multimedia
presentation, so do not
shy away from clip art,
images, or artistic
designs to show off
your text.
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slide at right has an
image, a box around
the words, and a strong
background.
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overall effect is
very professional and
pleasing to the eye.
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Congratulations and good luck! Hope your presentation goes well!
You’re done!