{"id":4254,"date":"2015-12-05T18:20:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T23:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=4254"},"modified":"2016-03-03T11:03:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T16:03:23","slug":"presenting-with-style-mixing-the-arts-of-storytelling-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/presenting-with-style-mixing-the-arts-of-storytelling-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenting with style: Mixing the arts of storytelling &#038; teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 3-minute thesis competitions, participants explain their research projects (the why, the how, and the implications for the real world) to non-experts in three minutes or less. The speaker of the best presentation wins. Great presenters will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>speak clearly and unhurriedly;<\/li>\n<li>vary their pitch;<\/li>\n<li>incorporate a story, include a metaphor from everyday life, and\/or strike an emotional cord in the listener;<\/li>\n<li>mention unexpected\/interesting facts about their topics (e.g., Silver changes the color of your tongue to blue.); and<\/li>\n<li>provide tangible examples.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The \u201cCHEE 687: Research Skills and Ethics\u201d class watched some 3-minute thesis competitors in action to prepare for their own presentations. My favourite 3-minute thesis talk was from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/61598778\" target=\"_blank\">Balarka Banerjee<\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2015\/12\/showing-lung-capacity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4257\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2015\/12\/showing-lung-capacity-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"showing lung capacity\" width=\"325\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2015\/12\/showing-lung-capacity-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2015\/12\/showing-lung-capacity-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2015\/12\/showing-lung-capacity.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a>We also discussed elements of a good PowerPoint presentation, which:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>has minimal content on each slide;<\/li>\n<li>contains descriptive\/specific headings (rather than general and predictable headings like Introduction, Background, Results, Conclusions);<\/li>\n<li>engages the audience at the beginning of the presentation with news headlines, statistics, or a story;<\/li>\n<li>includes consistent formatting throughout;<\/li>\n<li>utilizes a light background with dark text;<\/li>\n<li>employs graphics to explain phenomena, processes, and\/or concepts; and<\/li>\n<li>includes citations for any images used (when not your own) on the slide itself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the sixth in a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/tag\/chee-687\/\" target=\"_blank\">series<\/a> of weekly posts about topics relating to research skills and ethics. I will be taking a temporary hiatus from blogging and will resume writing this series later on in 2016. Happy holidays!<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/apelad\/albums\/72157638069617394\" target=\"_blank\">Laugh-Out-Loud Cats<\/a> cartoon strip by Adam \u201cApe Lad\u201d Koford <\/em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\">creative commons license<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 3-minute thesis competitions, participants explain their research projects (the why, the how, and the implications for the real world) to non-experts in three minutes or less. The speaker of the best presentation wins. Great presenters will: speak clearly and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/presenting-with-style-mixing-the-arts-of-storytelling-teaching\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[220,194,221],"class_list":["post-4254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-chee-687","tag-communication","tag-research-skills-and-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4254"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4323,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions\/4323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}