Presentation Skills - Week 2

When is Project #1: My Future Career PowerPoint due?

• August 29, 2025

• September 2, 2025

• September 10, 2025

• September 15, 2025

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One expectation for Project #1 is that students must:

• Write an essay only

• Create a slideshow connecting to their SMART goal

• Record a podcast about their career

• Submit a worksheet on career interests

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To make your presentation stronger, instead of reading slides word-for-word, you should:

• Add more text to each slide

• Explain the topic in your own words

• Speak as fast as possible

• Turn around and read from the projector

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Practicing before a presentation can help you:

• Keep your talk under 30 seconds

• Make sure you talk for at least 3 minutes

• Memorize the slides word-for-word

• Avoid using notecards

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To make sure your audience hears you clearly, you should:

• Speak quickly and quietly

• Only face your slides

• Speak slowly and loudly

• Avoid pausing

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Eye contact during a presentation shows:

• That you are nervous

• Confidence to the audience

• That you memorized every word

• That you don’t need visuals

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If you get nervous while presenting, one helpful strategy is to:

• Rush through the slides to finish

• Take deep breaths before speaking

• Avoid looking at the audience

• Skip practicing

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To save a new PowerPoint for the first time, you should:

• Press the floppy disk icon, name it, and save to desktop

• Close the program and hope it autosaves

• Drag the file into a folder

• Copy and paste it into Word

Which menu option allows you to create a new slide?

• File > Save As

• Insert > New Slide

• Design > Add Slide

• View > Layout

Where can you change the font of your text?

• Insert tab

• Transitions tab

• Home tab

• File menu

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