Structuring reminder for slides

Hello all,

I hope you had a lovely break, you’re refreshed and ready for the next part of the learning until the December break.

Just a wee reminder for the structure you’ll need for the assessed presentation. Around 10-11 slides is normally a good number to aim for when delivering a 5-8 minute talk.

All of the following parts are required:

Slide 1 - your name, date of when you are presenting your talk, what the talk is about. Optionally, you may also wish to add an appropriate image.

Slide 2 - this tells the audience exactly the order of your presentation and should always finish with the same three bullet points. See below.

Slides 3-8 (this is an approximate number and your content, this is what you found out from your research).

Slide 9 - conclusion - this is vital to recap what you spoke about. No new info should appear here.

Slide 10 - references / sources - ALL sources should be noted here, hyperlinked. You don’t need to use Harvard, but can if you wish. I’ll look at that in the second assessment, report writing.

Slide 11 - Thank you for listening, are there any questions?

Sensible structure always wins the day!

Mark 

Using Sway

Hello everybody.

I myself have never used Sway before, but as it was mentioned, I thought I’d pop a wee link on here which outlines how to use it should you so wish.

As a non expert or any time user, this is the best I can do at the moment, but it’s a starting point, right?

Here you go, please click on the link below:

https://stevenpayne.com/2016/09/create-amazing-presentations-sway/

Hope this helps. The tutorial is pretty instinctive and you can convert a Word and PP doc. if this is what you’d like to do. I still prefer PowerPoint as I’m so used to it, but choice is always good.

Don’t forget, the visuals are there to anchor what you are saying and provide signposts to what you’ve found out. I’m looking forward to seeing what you all come up with. 

Mark 

Presentation topics and assessment dates / times

Hello all,

Below are the presentation topics you have chosen for the first assessment of the Communication assessment. 

Where I have written 'unknown as yet' (at time of writing this blog post), it is up to each learner to e mail me with their choice so that I can either ratify or reject it. Unlikely to be the latter, so long as it is vocationally relevant.

Siobhan - Social workers

Sophie C - Influences on mental health

Mia - EUPD

Marion - Social media and the effects on mental health

Jena - Poverty

Scott - Social media and the effects on mental health

Claire - Nature vs. nurture

Amanda - Adoption and fostering

Jasmeen - Poverty

Sophie M - Adverse childhood experiences (ACES)

Nicola - Stress management

Tricia - unknown as yet

Lori - Effects of child abuse

Nikitta - Loss and grief

Hannah - EUPD

Leigh - Freud 

Liam - Loss and coping with loss

Lauren - Working in residential childcare

Makenzie - EUPD

The agreed dates for the assessment are as follows. You only attend the session when you are presenting.

Friday 4th November at 11.15 - Amanda, Lauren, Hannah, Liam, Nicola

Friday 4th November at 12.15 - Siobhan, Lori, Leigh, Scott, Tricia

Friday 11th November at 11.15 - Mia, Jena, Makenzie, Jasmeen

Friday 11th November at 12.15 - Marion, Claire, Nikitta, Sophie M, Sophie C

Criteria for the oral presentation assessment

Hello all,

This is the criteria you’ll be assessed on for the oral presentation assessment. 

Deliver and participate in complex spoken communication.

Performance Criteria

(a) Present complex information and supporting detail accurately - that’s the content and references you use. 

(b) Use structure and delivery which makes clear links between different ideas presented - a logical and sensible flow of info from your slides and what you say. 

(c) Use register, style and tone at an appropriate level of formality for purpose and audience - formal tone is important for this assessment. 

(d) Make effective use of non-verbal communication - good eye contact, open body language, smile, appear interested and engaged! 

(e) Respond to others in ways which promote and develop communication - question and answer session. We normally ask about three questions - sometimes from me and the audience. I feel a balance works really well indeed.

All the best, have a great weekend.

Mark

Topics for the presentation assessment

Today, part of the class will be given over to you assembling into small groups and considering a range of possible topics, using my prompts as a guide to help you. 

Once each group has thought of between 5 and 8 possible presentation subjects, one person in each group should come up to the front and type in their suggested titles.

Please put the names of each group member at the start so we know who suggested what.

In theory, we should have a great list.

Remember, all topics should be linked to the respective ‘Social’ Programme you are on. Let’s see what comes out!

I have started you off with a couple of suggestions for luck. 

Mark - Principles of care, Poverty, Stress management.

Group 1 (Amanda, Nicola & Sophie) - Adoption & Fostering, Children & Families, Adults with Disabilities, Elderly, Children with Disabilities, Childrens Rights (SHANARRI)

Group 2 (Lauren, Claire, Marion, and Siobhan) Mental health, human behaviour, nature vs nurture, addictions, and children and families 

Group 3 (Jasmeen, Mia, Jena, Lori) - Poverty, Racism, Gender equality, Sexism, Homophobia

Group 4 (Makenzie, Liam) - Children rights, social influences on a young person, Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD), working with a person in care, Dealing professionally with an abused child.

Well done, everybody.

Mark

PS - don't forget all the other additional topics contained in the assessment brief too!

Oral presentation assessment - running order until the December break

Hello all,

I am looking forward to working with you all again tomorrow (Friday 7th October).

What follows is a note of how the sessions will go until the December break.

Remember, we have four assessments to do, so getting two done by the turn of the year will be great and then we can look at the other two in January. We are right on track.

Friday 7th October - we will recap on oral presentation delivery from two weeks ago, look at PowerPoint use, and do a wee group exercise on choosing a vocationally relevant topic. I have a list of possible topics too and this should give everybody a great idea what they want to present on. As long as it is on a topic related to your Programme, it will be fine. I will show you the assessment brief too. 5 minutes minimum, 8 minutes maximum.

Friday 14th October - look at some example presentations (to show you how I would like them structured), finalise your research topic and allocate assessment slots, work on presentations in class.

Friday 21st October - holiday

Friday 28th October - work on presentations in class with me helping as necessary.

Fridays 4th and 11th November - presentation assessment. These will be done in four sessions. The assessment is an individual one, but you will only present in front of a small group. 

Friday 18th November - reflect on the presentation assessments and look at report writing skills. The topic of this assessment (650-1000 words) is likely to be on the same topic as your presentation. Any presentations not already passed at this stage assessed in the second half of the class.

Fridays 25/11, 2/12, 9/12, 16/12 - work on reports in class.

Deadline for the report is Friday 16th December 2022 via Moodle. I will look at drafts before that though. 

23/12 - holiday.

Hope that helps.

Mark

Moral Dilemmas session

Hello all,

Today we looked at three moral dilemmas that I gave to you, defined what they are, and then you broke them all down offering possible answers to the scenarios posed to you.

I thought this part of the lesson was particularly effective personally, for lots of reasons. 

So, a few questions.

1. How did you enjoy the moral dilemmas part of the class?

2. Listening to other groups were you persuaded to think differently?

3. What academic / communication skills were you using / developing today?

I look forward to your thoughts. As always, just be honest in your appraisal and anything goes!

Mark