Overview of RTC Simulation Tool: Market Analysis
This document provides an overview of an RTC Simulation Tool along with case studies in market analysis. It covers the simulator overview, simulation assumptions, limitations, and ancillary service qualification details. The tool's functionalities, stakeholders involved, pricing outcomes, and optimization system data are discussed. Key dates and contributors are acknowledged.
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PRESENTING & TRAININGS
YOUR FINAL PRESENTATION Each class member will find a partner and create a training session acting as the workshop presenters (groups of 2). These presentations will be presented in class on the final Tuesday & Thursday of class. These trainings will be accompanied by a written outline and the submission of all your training materials (handouts). The presentation should include activities, factual information, and visual elements. The presentations will be 10 minutes each (no more, no less). You may use a PowerPoint, Slides, or Prezi to help the audience better understand the presentation. You will be able to select the topic you use for the training.
CHOOSING A TOPIC 1.Select an Appropriate Topic 2.Determine the General & Specific Purpose
CHOOSE A TOPIC 1. Select an Appropriate Topic Choose a topic that you know and feel strongly about and will allow you to convey some convictions that are important to you. Determine whether the topic fits the situation or circumstances in which the speech is to be presented. Choose a topic that allows you to convey important information to your audience. The information does not have to be a matter of extreme urgency, but it should at least be relevant to your audience s interests, have some direct impact on them, or be something that you believe the audience should know.
CHOOSE A TOPIC 2. Determine the General & Specific Purpose After you have chosen and narrowed your topic, you should begin the process of structuring your presentation. The general purpose, or overall goal, of a speech is usually to perform one of three overlapping functions: to inform, to persuade, to entertain. A speech rarely serves only one function.Even though most classroom speech assignments are intended to meet a single goal, the speeches themselves may contain aspects of all three functions.
CHOOSE A TOPIC Informative Speech When the general purpose of your speech is to inform, you are expected to enhance an audience s knowledge and understanding by explaining what something means, how something works, or how something is done.
EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATION Why is it important to spend so much time on organizing your speeches?
EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATION Your audience will comprehend and remember well- organized speeches better than disorganized ones. Your audience will find you more competent and credible. These factors will lead them to determine how much time and energy they will exert to stay tuned in to your ideas (and how good your grade will be).
EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATION Developing Main Points The body of the speech consists of the main ideas and supporting materials you use as evidence to support those ideas. They should be carefully selected, phrased and ordered. The main ideas help you create the specific purpose and the preview statement. Have a minimum of two, but no more than five main points.
EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATION Connecting the Main Points Speakers need to communicate effectively with their listeners in a relatively short amount of time and without the benefit of interaction with them. In a conversation, the listener can interrupt and ask a question. In a formal speech that s not usually possible. Thus it is important for your thoughts to be systematically connected. The four most common connecting tools are: transitions, signposts, internal previews, and internal summaries.
EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATION Transitions Words or phrases used to link ideas. Transitions create a bridge between what has already been presented and what is to follow. A transition may review, preview, or summarize and helps the audience follow the overall structure and development of your speech. Transitional links are typically used between the introduction and the body, between main points in the body, between supporting materials and presentational aids, and between the body and conclusion. Let me move from the significant increase in binge drinking on this campus to the solution for this problem. Turning now to . . . Another example might be . . . Please keep these two items in mind as I discuss the solution. Now that we've looked at how we can reuse many products, let's discuss how recycling is cost- effective.
EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATION Signposts Just as traffic signs warn drivers about road conditions, verbal signposts are words, phrases, or short statements that notify the listeners exactly where the speaker is in the speech and where he/she is going. Let me first illustrate this point. As you look at this object . . My second point describes . . The most essential aspect of this plan is The one thing you need to remember is . . .
EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATION Internal Previews Internal previews are short statements giving an advance warning, or a preview of points to be covered. They are a more detailed form of a transition specifically noting what content or topic will be covered next. We'll next look at possible solutions to protecting the environment. Next we will look at how technology has affected our lives.
EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATION Internal Summaries The internal summary pulls ideas together and provides something for your listeners to remember. An internal summary is a short review statement given at the end of a main point. Let me briefly summarize what I've said so far.
EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATION Introductions The introduction should be developed after the body of the speech has been written. An introduction should gain your listeners attention, orient them to the topic of the speech, motivate them to listen, and preview the speech content. How do you grab the audience s attention?
EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATION Introductions (cont.) There are a number of ways to gain attention. These devices should be carefully chosen to fit the audience, speech content, and occasion. Each strategy for the introduction has advantages and disadvantages. Whatever you choose to gain attention and motivate the audience to listen and maintain interest in your introduction should be relevant and help orient the audience to the topic. Refer to the subject or occasion Personal narrative Rhetorical question Startling statement Humor Quotation
EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATION Conclusion Your conclusion should both summarize and synthesize the speech. It usually accounts for 5 to 15 percent (thirty to sixty seconds) of the total speech time. Your task in this brief portion of the speech is to focus the listeners thoughts on the specific purpose of your speech and bring your most important points together in a condensed, cohesive manner. The conclusion fulfills at least four functions: 1. Lets your listeners know you are finishing the speech. 2. Restates the purpose of your speech. 3. Reviews the main points to increase the audience s ability to retain information. 4. Leaves the listeners thinking critically about your ideas.
EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATION Conclusion (cont.) Notifies Listeners you are Finishing The early part of the conclusion functions like a brake light on your car and lets the listener know the speech is winding down. Restate the Purpose Restate the purpose of your speech so the audience understands the point of your message. It doesn't have to be stated exactly the same way as it was presented in the introduction. Review the Main Points Repetition of the main points of your speech is particularly helpful whenever you want your listeners to remember your main points. End with Memorable Thought A memorable thought may include anything from referring back to one of the strategies used in the introduction to offering a relevant quotation or even issuing a challenge or appeal. Make sure that what you do reinforces what you covered in the speech.
BENEFITS OF PRESENTATION AIDS Speakers face multiple challenges. Among them is determining how to get an audience s attention and making information clear to them. In today s multimedia literate society, much of what is communicated uses a sound or visual element to help get a message across to an audience. Thus, well-organized and visually appropriate presentational aids are quite effective in helping speakers connect with the audience. Presentational aids should be used to reinforce, engage, support, and clarify a speaker s message.
BENEFITS OF PRESENTATION AIDS Presentation aids will help you: Gain audience attention and interest Improve audience understanding and retention Provide support for your argument Enhance speaker credibility
BENEFITS OF PRESENTATION AIDS Attention and Interest When speakers use pictures, charts, graphs, video clips, slides, or objects, they are altering their presentation and thus, increasing an audience's attention even if only momentarily. Thus, if presentational aids are carefully developed and if they add to the understanding of the speech's content they will not only gain the attention of your audience but they will actually enhance the audience's interest in the speech.
BENEFITS OF PRESENTATION AIDS Improve audience understanding and retention Visual presentation aids make the speech more understandable and memorable. Researchers have found that presentations using visual aids improved retention of speech content. Audience members who heard a presentation that included visuals remembered approximately 65% of what they heard and saw after three days,while audience members hearing the same presentation without visuals aids only recalled 10% of the information. It's clear from the research that visuals have a significant impact on retention of information.
BENEFITS OF PRESENTATION AIDS Provide Support Presentational aids can serve as an excellent form of evidence, helping to support speakers' points of view. Presentational aids allow your audience to literally see for themselves the concepts in your speech. This makes your message more believable. For example, when you show a picture of a homeless person, you are illustrating how poverty affects people and families and providing evidence to support your words.
BENEFITS OF PRESENTATION AIDS Enhance Speaker Credibility Audiences see speakers who use presentational aids, as more professional, better prepared, more interesting, more persuasive, and more concrete. Focus your efforts on producing presentation aids that contribute effectively to your purpose and look professional. Such efforts will help your audience learn or understand your topic in a new way and will thus help them see you as a knowledgeable, competent, credible speaker.
APPROPRIATE DESIGN & USE Appropriate Design Speakers using presentational aids should strive to ensure they are accurate, attractive, simple, intelligible, recognizable, and of high quality. Appropriate Use There is nothing more distracting than a speaker who talks to the presentational aids rather than the audience.
PRACTICE WITH YOUR SLIDES Practice will do several things for you: (1) it will make your final presentation less stressful because you will know how the equipment works, (2) you will know how the visuals will be seen by your audience and whether you have to make any adjustments to them, and (3) you will know where the best place for you to stand and move is when using the visuals. Remember, practice and more practice ensures a smoother presentation and ultimately creates a better connection between your speech and your audience.
GUIDELINES FOR YOUR SLIDES Each slide should only communicate one point of your speech. Do not try to put too much information on each slide.
GUIDELINES FOR YOUR SLIDES Make sure your words are readable when presented through a projector in the classroom. Because of lighting issues in a classroom, what looks good on your laptop will often wash out when projected. Try to use white words on dark backgrounds or black words on light backgrounds.
GUIDELINES FOR YOUR SLIDES When searching for images to use in your presentation, choose images that are large to avoid letting the image become pixelated when enlarged. Most web browsers have search tools to identify large images. Videos should be 720p or higher to maintain clear playback. When supporting your speech with a video, it should be no more than 30 seconds in a 5-7 minute speech. Unsplash.com
GUIDELINES FOR YOUR SLIDES Bold, simple fonts are easier for the audience to see and make your presentation more professional. Fonts such as Arial Black, and Gill Sans are easy to read and offer greater contrast on your slide.
GUIDELINES FOR YOUR SLIDES Every presentation software offers creative ways to move from slide to slide. Too much action between slides can be a distraction to your speech. Keep slide transitions simple and clean. Presentational aids that are not original or that contain information that is not yours require documentation. Cite your source directly on the aid where your audience can see it and in the context of your speech.
THINGS TO REMEMBER Do not present to the presentation. Do not present to your visual aids. K.I.S.S. Keep it Simple Stupid Do not get distracted by your visual aids.
