Training Workshop for the ThreeMinute Thesis Competition F

Training Workshop for the Three-Minute Thesis Competition F. Jay Breyer & Christine Kelly TBA Please sit at tables with students not from your program

Official Welcome and Brief Introductions

Training Session Agenda • Competition Review • Outline Suggestions for Three-minute Narration • Static Slide Options for Narration • Work to storyboard your narration • Present those ideas to your student colleagues & receive feedback • Develop tentative ideas for a static slide • Present those ideas to your student colleagues • Tables report the types of Suggestions for Improvement that were given as critiques for students at their tables

Objectives • At the end of this session you should have: 1. A proposed slide you want to have showing during your presentation 2. An outline of your presentation

Competition Review • Each student will have two static slides: 1. A cover slide: • Research Title, Student Name, Program/Department, and Fordham University, Bronx, NY (This first slide is shown as each speaker is introduced. ) 2. A static content page • Text or Graphics (This second slide is shown during the narration. ) • Each student will have three minutes to introduce, explain in a compelling fashion their research and its significance to a non-specialist audience.

Rules • See the handout

Judging Criteria • Comprehension & Content: Did the presentation help the audience understand the research? Was thesis topic and its significance communicated in language appropriate to an intelligent but non-specialist audience? • Engagement & Communication: Did the oration make the audience want to know more? Did the speaker have sufficient stage presence, eye contact and vocal range; maintain a steady pace, and have a confident stance?

Slide Types 1. Emblematic • Single photograph/illustration/drawing • Photograph/illustration with some text (e. g. , a quote) • Contrasting photographs/Illustrations 2. Process • screen divided into two, three or four sections with arrows showing process

Suggested Outline • Introduction • Rhetorical question followed by background for context - tell a story • 1 st point - Research question - Why it’s important • 2 nd point - Methodology - Treatment - Conditions • 3 rd point - Results - no more than three • Conclusion • Significance of research

Some Examples • Financial Education • Uses Dickens to talk about the gap between knowing what to do and doing it in Financial lives - Slide: Illustration with Text https: //vimeo. com/185899028 • Psychology • Risk taking in males - Slide: Illustration using Trivial Pursuit https: //vimeo. com/215110083 • Humanities - Education • Selecting advanced mathematics courses in high school - Slide: illustration and text as slide https: //vimeo. com/233778229 • Biochemistry • Uses bananas to talk about Parkinson’s disease - Slide: Process https: //vimeo. com/61598974

Some Mistakes • Notice the use of filler sounds in the presentation https: //vimeo. com/188071014 • Moves around the stage to the point of distraction https: //vimeo. com/album/4557713/video/215110092 • The speaker never refers to the overhead slide https: //vimeo. com/61599047

Work in Teams • Using the Student Worksheet (20 minutes) • Fill out your name, presentation title • Your slide description and Why it helps • Fill out your presentation outline • Five paragraph format • Then describe your topic, slides, and presentation to your Teammates - (15 Minutes - Five for each team member. ) • Teammates make written comments • About slide, Comprehension & Content & Significance • Teams present results of criticisms and comments to all in summary form (Use Comment Form)

Presentation Hints • What counts against you? 1. False starts (e. g. , repeating a word) 2. use of filler words (e. g. , ummm, you know? , OK? “Like”) • Best way to prepare? • Practice • Record yourself and view the recording

Please Complete the Evaluation Form and let us know how to improve this training session. Thank you. TBA Jay & Christine