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Oral Presentations
What is it?
An oral presentation is an address or presentation given verbally to an audience. Many oral presentations include visual aids. Oral presentations can take place in various forms including poster presentations, group work, interviews, and debate.
Oral Presentations
What are the educational uses and benefits?
Assessment
- Oral presentations can be easy to assess with the aid of a rubric.
Collaboration
- Oral presentations can encourage collaboration skills when the presentations are conducted in small groups.
Communication
- Oral skills are often necessary for jobs and participating in oral presentations increases these skills.
- Oral presentations encourage students to learn and synthesize information so that they may restate it in their own words in a presentation.
- Oral presentations help to improve public speaking skills.
Oral Presentations
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Oral Presentations
How do I get started?
When assigning oral presentations it is helpful to
- Give students guidelines on what you expect for their presentation to contain.
- Give students guidelines on how to successfully present including information on body language, posture, eye contact, and pace.
- Give students a clear outline of the grading structure.
- Give students immediate feedback so that other students can learn from their mistakes and successes as well as written feedback to the invidual.
- Videotape the presentation so the student can critically evaluate his or her own oral presentation skills.
Synchronous Oral Presentation Tools
- Audio Conferencing
- Elluminate Live!
- Mediasite
- Second Life (Virtual Worlds)
- Video Conferencing
- Web Conferencing
- Whiteboard
Asynchronous Oral Presentation Tools
Oral Presentations
Where can I learn more?
- Assessment by Oral Presentation: A list of resources on assessing oral presentations, oral presentation tips, and peer evaluation of oral presentations.
- Designing Effective Oral Presentations: An article on how to be an effective speaker and writer of oral presentations.
- Incorporating the Oral Presentation into Online Learning
- Oral Presentations: Tips on oral presentations from the University of Melbourne.
- Oral Presentations Guidelines: Guidelines on oral presentations for the American Public Health Association. This article includes tips on successful oral presentations.
- Teaching Oral Presentation Skills to Undergraduates: An article from the McGraw Center.
For information on tools to help with synchronous Oral Presentation activities visit:
- Application Sharing
- Audio Conferencing
- Breakout Rooms
- Elluminate Live!
- IM or Chat
- Second Life
- Video Conferencing
- Web Conferencing
- Whiteboards
For information on tools to help with asynchronous Oral Presentation activities visit:
