Class Presentations: design and delivery

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Plan the talk before the slides

In simple words

Before you build a Lego house, you look at the picture on the box. A presentation plan is the picture on the box. You decide who the talk is for and what they should remember, and then you build.

Before this course: Presenting in Class (course 13.17). You already know how to write one message with three points and how to open and close. Here we go one step deeper: design the slides and deliver the talk.

Key facts

Start with the audience and the rubric: time limit, required content, whether slides are required, and how marks are given.
Write your one-sentence message and your three points first (course 13.17, lessons 1 and 2). Do not open slide software yet.
A storyboard is a rough plan of the slides, one box per slide, drawn on paper or index cards. In each box write the slide's single idea and what you will say.
Plan about one slide per point or example, not one slide per sentence. Fewer, clearer slides are easier to design and to present.
Plan your evidence per point: a fact with a source, a short real example, a chart or a photo. Every fact needs a source, as in an essay (course 13.11).

Step by step

Read your assignment and rubric. Write the time limit and the marking categories at the top of a sheet of paper.
Write your one-sentence message and your three points.
Draw a row of boxes (a storyboard): opening, point 1, point 2, point 3, closing, sources.
In each box write the one idea of that slide and the evidence you will use.
Under each box write one sentence you will say out loud, not the whole talk.
Count the boxes. If you have more slides than you can show in your time limit, merge or cut boxes.
Check: every box has one idea, and every fact in a box has a source written next to it.

LESSON 01Plan the talk before the slides

LESSON 01 / ANIMATED LESSON / AI VOICE00:00 / 01:00

Voice

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[Host] "This is course 13.17.2. Before this course, you finished Presenting in Class. Now we design and deliver."
[Screen: index cards laid out in a row] "Draw your talk first. One card per slide, one idea per card."
[Text on screen: Audience. Rubric. Message. Storyboard.] "Audience, rubric, message, then storyboard."
[Host] "If your storyboard is clear, the slides take half the time."

Try it now

Pick a presentation you have to give soon. Write the rubric categories, your one-sentence message and three points, then draw a storyboard with one idea per slide and a source next to every fact.

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I'm learning "Class Presentations: design and delivery" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "Plan the talk before the slides".

What the lesson teaches:
- Start with the audience and the rubric: time limit, required content, whether slides are required, and how marks are given.
- Write your one-sentence message and your three points first (course 13.17, lessons 1 and 2). Do not open slide software yet.
- A storyboard is a rough plan of the slides, one box per slide, drawn on paper or index cards. In each box write the slide's single idea and what you will say.
- Plan about one slide per point or example, not one slide per sentence. Fewer, clearer slides are easier to design and to present.
- Plan your evidence per point: a fact with a source, a short real example, a chart or a photo. Every fact needs a source, as in an essay (course 13.11).

The exercise I'm working on:
Pick a presentation you have to give soon. Write the rubric categories, your one-sentence message and three points, then draw a storyboard with one idea per slide and a source next to every fact. ---

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.

I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "Plan the talk before the slides" from the course "Class Presentations: design and delivery".

Here's what the lesson says:
Before you build a Lego house, you look at the picture on the box. A presentation plan is the picture on the box. You decide who the talk is for and what they should remember, and then you build. Before this course: Presenting in Class (course 13.17). You already know how to write one message with three points and how to open and close. Here we go one step deeper: design the slides and deliver the talk.

The activity:
Pick a presentation you have to give soon. Write the rubric categories, your one-sentence message and three points, then draw a storyboard with one idea per slide and a source next to every fact. ---

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.

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