KindSoCIETIE KNoT
ModeWorkshop
ThreadConnected Communities
Skills Developed
Public SpeakingStorytellingSelf-Awareness
Created By
Jessamy Perriam — Fellow (College of Systems & Society)
Kim Huynh — Affiliate (College of Arts and Social Sciences)
Kim Huynh — Affiliate (College of Arts and Social Sciences)
About this KNoT
Um, ah, blank stares, death by bullet point — let's fix all of it, together.
Preparation
Review a couple of these resources.
- Bartlett A (n.d.) A white-label slide deck, alicebartlett.co.uk, A white-label slide deck, accessed 6 February 2020.
- Giles Turnbull (n.d.) ‘Presenting is performance’, Presenting is performance, accessed 30 October 2019.
- Matthew Sheret (n.d.) ‘Giving clear presentations’, Government Digital Service, Giving clear presentations, accessed 30 October 2019.
- Kim Huynh, SoCIETIE Acknowledgement of Country Toolkit (attached)
- Russell Davies (n.d.) ‘Doing the hard work to make it bearable’, 'Doing the hard work to make it bearable' (archived), accessed 30 October 2019a. —— (n.d.) ‘Doing the hard work to make it big’, 'Doing the hard work to make it big' (archived), accessed 30 October 2019b. —— (n.d.) ‘Doing the hard work to make it clear’, 'Doing the hard work to make it clear' (archived), accessed 30 October 2019c.
What You’ll Learn
This is an opportunity to practise, share, um, ah, chortle, blather and go blank in a supportive and creative environment with a view developing your own presentation style and adjusting it for different contexts.
- What makes a great and not so great presentation?
- What alternatives are there to leaning on a wall of text
- How to develop Acknowledgements of Country that are creative and connect with others.
- How to provide real feedback.
How to Complete This KNoT
- Show how will integrate the ideas and skills from the workshop into your learning portfolio presentation.
- Develop a series of Acknowledgements of Country.
Writing your reflection
Most completion tasks ask you to reflect on what you did. For prompts, sentence starters, and the five areas a strong reflection covers, see Writing Your Reflection. Your completed tasks come together at the end of the semester in the Completion Evidence.
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