Presentation Basics Power Point Presentations Alen Amirkhanian AUA

Presentation Basics: Power. Point Presentations Alen Amirkhanian AUA Acopian Center for the Environment AUA Center for Responsible Mining American University of Armenia

Why do we do presentations? It is different from: • • Books or reports Orations Radio broadcasts TV broadcasts/movies But like all of the above, presentations try to make points, tell a story, present facts and analyses. Let’s review suggestions on how to do these effectively.

General Rules of Power. Point Presentations (PPPs) I. BASIC FORMATTING II. STRUCTURING YOUR PRESENTATION III. EXPRESSING IDEAS (PPP is not a report or book) IV. USE OF IMAGES AND ANIMATION V. COPY/PASTE IS NOT SATISFACTORY VI. REFERENCING THE SOURCES

General Rules of Power. Point Presentations (PPPs) I. BASIC FORMAT EXAMPLE Title: Renewable Energy: Wind Names: Project ID: Course Name: Date: School: Maroyan and Gagoyan Assignment #3 IE 351. Engineering Green Buildings Fall 2015 AUA College of Science & Engineering 1. On the cover page include your name(s), the course name, project title, and date, etc. 2. Make all fonts bold; makes it easier to read when projected on a wall 3. Try to keep to the following font sizes: 24 -32 for headlines on each page and 18 -20 on text 4. Do not use hard to read fonts. Stick to Ariel, Calibri, Times New Roman, etc. 5. Put space between each bullet point 6. All bullet points must start with a capital letter (American style) 7. My preference is to keep background blank, preferably white Formatting should help understanding not hinder it!

General Rules of Power. Point Presentations (PPPs) I. BASIC FORMATTING II. STRUCTURING YOUR PRESENTATION III. EXPRESSING IDEAS (PPP is not a report or book) IV. USE OF IMAGES AND ANIMATION V. COPY/PASTE IS NOT SATISFACTORY VI. REFERENCING THE SOURCES

How do you organize your presentation? You need to think about what goes into its beginning, middle, and end. • Beginning: Short, should set up the issue or problem • Middle: Main findings and ideas presented and discussed • End: Emphasize the main points you want the audience to remember

Keep in mind when organizing your presentation • Know your audience (children, adults, experts, layperson, …) • Identify the main goal of the presentation (problem-solution; discovery; demonstration; opinion and persuasion; historical account; telling a story; …) • Identify the key points you need to make • Have adequate facts, figures, and images to support your key points • DO NOT: give too much background, digress, add too much information, have too little information, …

General Rules of Power. Point Presentations (PPPs) I. BASIC FORMATTING II. STRUCTURING YOUR PRESENTATION III. EXPRESSING IDEAS (PPP is not a report or book) IV. USE OF IMAGES AND ANIMATION V. COPY/PASTE IS NOT SATISFACTORY VI. REFERENCING THE SOURCES

General Rules of Power. Point Presentations (PPPs) II. EXPRESSING IDEAS (PPP is not a report or a book) 1. Use bullet points 2. Each bullet point should contain one idea 3. Express the idea in a basic form 4. Express idea in one sentence 5. Do not digress from your topic 6. Highlight key points + put them in a larger context or provide comparatives 7. Include all the points that are critical; don’t assume that it’s enough to cover it as a speaking point 8. Use color changes to highlight key points

SAMPLE: Use bullet points Introduction Using wind is one of the cleanest, most sustainable ways to generate electricity. Wind power produces no toxic emissions and none of the heat trapping emissions that contribute to global warming. This, and the fact that wind power is one of the most abundant and increasingly costcompetitive energy resources, makes it a viable alternative to the fossil fuels that harm our health and threaten the environment. You are not writing a book or a report? You need to have your points as bullets

SAMPLE: Do Not Digress and Do Develop Ideas Effectively Solar thermal and PV systems • In the R. A. on a horizontal surface approximately 1000 W/m 2 peak of free energy is available. • There are different ways to extract solar insolation to either electricity or thermal energy. • The first way is the extraction of solar insolation via photovoltaic (PV) solar panels which convert solar energy to electrical. Construction of these systems is related to the utilization of expensive materials like Silicon or other semiconductors. • PV panels available in the markets at present doesn’t exceed 20% which means that maximum 20% of incident solar radiation is finally converted to electrical current. And the cheapest known price for these types of systems is approcimately $4 per watt or $4000 for 1 k. W electrical power. • Solar thermal technologies utilize the heat from the sun to offset the water heating demand of a building.

SAMPLE: Do Not Digress and Do Develop Ideas Effectively Solar thermal and PV systems • In the R. A. on a horizontal surface approximately 1000 W/m 2 peak of free energy is available. • There are different ways to extract solar insolation to either electricity or thermal energy. • The first way is the extraction of solar insolation via photovoltaic (PV) solar panels which convert solar energy to electrical. Construction of these systems is related to the utilization of expensive materials like Silicon or other semiconductors. • PV panels available in the markets at present doesn’t exceed 20% which means that maximum 20% of incident solar radiation is finally converted to electrical current. And the cheapest known price for these types of systems is approcimately $4 per watt or $4000 for 1 k. W electrical power. • Solar thermal technologies utilize the heat from the sun to offset the water heating demand of a building.

SAMPLE: Do Not Digress and Do Develop Ideas Effectively Example of how I would do this slide Solar thermal • The typical measure of exposure to the sun of a given area is called “insolation. ” • The higher the insolation level of an area, the higher its potential to harness solar energy to generate electricity or heat. • In the R. A. on a horizontal surface, approximately 1000 W/m 2 peak of free energy is available. • Solar thermal technologies use this free heat from the sun to meet water heating demand of a building.

SAMPLE: Do Not Digress and Do Develop Ideas Effectively Favorable natural resources Solar insolation data for different regions of Armenia have been collected from different sources. The term solar insolation indicates the measure of solar radiation energy received on a given surface area in a given time. For demonstrating the solar energy potential in Armenia obviously note that a square with a base equal to 6 km can provide all needed power of the country. An average irradiation energy in Yerevan is 1700 k. W/m 2 which is 1. 7 times larger than the irradiation in Germany the leader in solar energy usage in the world.

Favorable natural resources In Yerevan, the average annual insolation, the amount of solar radiation received on a square meter, is: 1700 k. W/m 2 This is 1. 7 times larger than the insolation in Germany, the leader in solar energy usage in the world. SOLAR POTENTIAL IN ARMENIA: A 6 km 2 of land in Armenia can provide all the electrical power needs of the country.

General Rules of Power. Point Presentations (PPPs) I. BASIC FORMATTING II. STRUCTURING YOUR PRESENTATION III. EXPRESSING IDEAS (PPP is not a report or book) IV. USE OF IMAGES AND ANIMATION V. COPY/PASTE IS NOT SATISFACTORY VI. REFERENCING THE SOURCES

General Rules of Power. Point Presentations (PPP) IV. USE OF IMAGES AND ANIMATION IMAGES • Pictures and diagrams are there to help make a point. They are not decoration. • Too many pictures can be distracting. There is only so much time you can spend on one slide. • Avoid images with too much information. • You need takeaways (i. e. , text that highlights the key points) of a graph, chart, or picture.

SAMPLE: Highlight key takeaways + help viewer understand the facts in context or with comparatives Duration of real seasonal and annual solar radiation (in hours) Station Altitude (m) Winter Spring Summer Fall Year Yerevan 942 330 643 1019 699 2690 Tashir 1505 467 514 589 489 2060 Gyumri Sevan Kapan Martuni COMPARISON Germany = 1700 Italy = 2600 California= 3000 3 rd 1556 440 IS 605 918 652 2615 WHAT MISSING? 492 622 932 702 Data source Date of data 704 461 511 830 491 Date of publication 1918 820 384 655 1157 772 2748 2 nd 2293 2968 TOTAL NUMBER OF HOURS (DAY AND NIGHT) IN A YEAR = 8760 MAX

General Rules of Power. Point Presentations (PPP) IV. USE OF IMAGES AND ANIMATION • Animation is used effectively when it helps ease understanding and emphasize points. • Avoid too much animation. It is annoying and distracting. • To transition slides – my suggestion is to be used only if absolutely necessary.

General Rules of Power. Point Presentations (PPPs) I. BASIC FORMATTING II. STRUCTURING YOUR PRESENTATION III. EXPRESSING IDEAS (PPP is not a report or book) IV. USE OF IMAGES AND ANIMATION V. COPY/PASTE IS NOT SATISFACTORY VI. REFERENCING THE SOURCES

General Rules of Power. Point Presentations (PPP) V. COPY/PASTE IS NOT SATISFACTORY • The sentence presented should be your understanding of what you have read • You should not simply copy and paste PLAGARISM | Գրագողություն

General Rules of Power. Point Presentations (PPPs) I. BASIC FORMATTING II. STRUCTURING YOUR PRESENTATION III. EXPRESSING IDEAS (PPP is not a report or book) IV. USE OF IMAGES AND ANIMATION V. COPY/PASTE IS NOT SATISFACTORY VI. REFERENCING THE SOURCES

General Rules of Power. Point Presentations (PPP) VI. REFERENCING THE SOURCES 1. Source your statements, facts, and figures 2. Follow standard referencing format to avoid confusion 3. Make sure you data source is dated

US Municipal Solid Waste Recovered*, 1960 -2008 recovered (million tons) Note: (*) Recovered waste includes both recycled as well as composted waste. In 2008, Americans recovered 82. 9 million tons of waste: ~61 million tons through recycling and ~22 million tons of waste through composting. Source: “Municipal Solid Waste Generation, Recycling, and Disposal in the United States: Facts and Figures for 2008” (US EPA; 2009) recovery

recovered (million tons) recovered US Municipal Solid Waste Recovered*, 1960 -2008 recovery Note: (*) Recovered waste includes both recycled as well as composted waste. In 2008, Americans recovered 82. 9 million tons of waste: ~61 million tons through recycling and ~22 million tons of waste through composting. Source: “Municipal Solid Waste Generation, Recycling, and Disposal in the United States: Facts and Figures for 2008” (US EPA; 2009)

The Metabolism of City of London (1995 -96; Population 7 million) Tonnes per year INPUT Fuel, oil equivalent Oxygen Water Food Timber Paper Plastics Glass Cement Bricks, blocks, & tarmac Metals WASTE CO 2 SO 2 NO 2 Wet, digested sewage sludge Industrial and demolition waste Households, civic, and commercial wastes Tonnes per year per capita 20, 000 40, 000 1, 002, 000 2, 400, 000 1, 200, 000 2, 100, 000 360, 000 1, 940, 000 6, 000 1, 200, 000 2. 86 5. 71 143. 14 0. 34 0. 17 0. 31 0. 30 0. 05 0. 28 0. 86 0. 17 60, 000 400, 000 280, 000 7, 500, 000 11, 400, 000 3, 900, 000 8. 57 0. 06 0. 04 1. 07 1. 63 0. 56 Source: Compiled by Herbert Girardet and printed in Creating Sustainable Cities (1999); per capita calc by Alen Amirkhanian

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