Demonstration Speech

1. Demonstration Speech Finding a Good Topic and Planning for Succes

2. Work from Your Strengths • Demonstrate something that you know very well and like doing. • From your career area. • From your hobbies or interests. • Make sure it is practical. • 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?

3. Will They Be Interested? • Remember your audience analysis. • What questions will the audience have? • Can you hold their attention while processes take place? • Strategies for involvement.

4. Build Your House • The foundation is the topic: “ I want to demonstrate how to make chili.” • The 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.” • The 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.” • The roof is the demo. Show them! • Beware the wrecking ball. What can go wrong?

5. Items of Concern • What can go wrong and how can I prevent it? • Will it make a mess? • This is way to complicated! Can you break it down? • Does it need special conditions? Hot, cold, wet, dry? Does it need to be fed? • Nothing that explodes, needs fire, can be shot or bites.

6. Demonstration Speeches • Above all else – demonstration speeches are SPEECHES! • They have: • An introduction • A body • A conclusion • They have transitions • And, they have supporting evidence. • They should NOT have dead air time!

7. Demonstration Speeches • Teaches. . . • Provides answers to the question “How do you do that?” • Also known as “how to” speech. • Type of informative speech.

8. Attention Getter and Memorable Close • 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).

9. Preparing a Demonstration Speech Think first. . . • What are the required steps or stages • What comes first? • What’s absolutely essential? • Which step is easiest? • Which step is hardest? • What does the audience already know how to do? • Where will the audience be most likely to get confused? • Which step takes the most time? • Which take very little time?

10. Organizing a Demonstration Speech Then plan. . . • Organize steps in order. • Clarify and simplify difficult steps. • Think about the physical space of the room. • Don’t forget to put stage directions on your index cards or outline.

11. Audience Participation Be in control. . . • Only use audience participation that is practiced ahead of time or is highly controlled.

12. Don’t Assume You Know Think again. . . • Just because you are demonstrating something you know how to do…doesn’t mean you can automatically explain it to an audience.

13. Visual Aids Plan again. . . • What actual objects will you need. • What gaps will you need to fill in. • Practice working with your props.

14. Abstract versus Concrete Avoid potholes. . . • Abstract Topics: Challenge is to make it visual. • Concrete Topics: Challenge is to make it new and different.

15. Condensing Time Create stages. . . • Prepare several different versions of the items at different points in the process.

16. Answer THE Two Audience Questions • Why should I care? • Why should I believe you?

17. Practice Canon is Key • Rehearsal is one of the keys to delivering an effective demonstration speech.

18. 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 ahead of time non-essential steps. • No dead air time! • Modify the demonstration. • Have a completed sample. • Don’t talk to you visual aid. • Preprint & hand out later directions or recipe.

19. Demonstration Speeches – con’t. • Include your audience. • Don’t use jargon or technical terms. Or, explain! ! ! • No last minute volunteers – plan ahead! • Make sure it is a speech – • Introduction • Body • Conclusion • Transitions • Supporting Evidence • Practice, practice, practice!

20. What is public speaking? • Public speaking is anytime you have to speak in public! • Speaking in public scares more Americans than going to the dentist, falling, or death! • This presentation will give you public speaking basics and help you realize some good multimedia presentation skills at the same time.

21. Fears… • While most people fear public speaking there are some very simple ways to get around it… • Practice • Practice • Practice • By practicing you get around the reason for the fear: saying something stupid or messing up in front of people.

22. 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.

23. Basics of Public Speaking • Know your topic • 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. • Know your audience • What do they find funny? What are they interested in? What would they like to hear about your topic? • Find a hook • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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.

24. Confidence Project a calm, confident tone while speaking. You are the expert on the topic, so you have nothing to worry about! 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.

25. Tips • Attitude is everything! • Preparation is key • Confidence comes with practice • Refer to sources correctly • 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. • First 30 seconds are the most important! • 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 • 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.

26. 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!

27. First, a tutorial. • 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.

28. 6 Power point tips • Have consistent slide backgrounds. • Contrast helps people see your presentation. • Animation adds some flavor. • Make it large! • Too many words turns your audience off. • Images are important!

29. 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.

30. Contrast Can you read me now? • Contrast is when two colors are put next to each other which are very different from one another. • For 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?

31. Animation • Animation 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. • There 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. Too many words? Animation can help improve a slide! Too many words? Animation can help improve a slide!

32. 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!

33. Wordy Slides… • Multimedia presentations are visual tools. It is not a good tool to use if you have too much to say. • So keep your words to a minimum. • This slide has quite a few words, some may say too many. • They are easy to read, however, because they are large enough. • Also, the addition of the fish animation adds to the slide. • 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. • Use bullet points to break up the writing.

34. 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. • The slide at right has an image, a box around the words, and a strong background. • The overall effect is very professional and pleasing to the eye.

35. You’re done! Congratulations and good luck! Hope your presentation goes well!