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Study Skills : Presentation Skills Additional Resources
Presentation Skills Additional Resources
This page contains additional resources for presentation skills.
General
general videos
- Study Skills- Presentation Skills - Opens in a new windowThis playlist presents videos from Ontario colleges on reading and note-taking.
Creating and Preparing for a Presentation
Creating and Preparing websites
- Giving Effective Presentations- Simon Fraser University - Opens in a new windowThis page from Simon Fraser University provides tips for the content, structure, and delivery of a presentation.
- Student Survival Guide - Tech Tools (Algonquin College) - Opens in a new windowThis website includes lists of tools that can be useful during your studies, including presentation tools.
Creating and Preparing worksheets
- WellCast Public Speaking Worksheet - Opens in a new windowThis worksheet from WellCast can help you structure your presentation.
Creating and Preparing tools
- Prezi - Opens in a new windowThis online tool lets you create presentations on one large canvas instead of traditional slides.
- Piktochart - Opens in a new windowThis online tool helps you create professional-looking info-graphics.
- Powtoon - Opens in a new windowThis online tool lets you create animated videos and slideshows.
Presentation Anxiety
Presentation Anxiety Videos
- Toastmasters International - Video Library - Opens in a new windowThis page from Toastmasters International includes videos to help you improve different aspects of public speaking, such as icebreakers, and keeping your audience engaged.
- Be a More Confident Public Speaker - Opens in a new windowThis video from WellCast presents some strategies to help you work through your nerves about presenting.
Presentation Anxiety Websites
- Toastmasters International - Opens in a new windowToastmasters International is a non-profit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills. Find a club in your area using their online tool.
- Ottawa Toastmasters - Opens in a new windowThe Ottawa chapter of Toastmasters International.
Delivering Presentations
Delivery websites
- 8 Fatal Body Language Mistakes to Avoid During Presentations - Opens in a new windowThis articles lists some body language mistakes that you should avoid in your presentation.
- 15 Strategies for Giving Oral Presentations - Opens in a new windowThis article gives some useful tips for giving a good presentation.
- How to Give a Killer Online Presentation - Opens in a new windowThis article gives some tips for giving a presentation online, using online meeting software.
- How to Stop Saying Um, Uh, and Other Filler Words - Opens in a new windowThis page can can help you stop using filler words that distract from your presentation.
- Increase Your Presentation Confidence - Opens in a new windowThis page from Simon Fraser University includes strategies to help increase your confidence for your presentations.
- Simple Secrets to Improve Your Eye Contact - Opens in a new windowThis page can help you improve your ability to make eye contact during your presentation.
- Toastmasters – Gestures and Body Language - Opens in a new windowThis resource from Toastmasters covers how to use your body language effectively.
- Using PowerPoint Effectively in an Oral Presentation - Opens in a new windowThis page gives some strategies and best practices for using PowerPoint in presentations.
- 10 Presentation Bad Habits My College Students – And You – Must UN-Learn - Opens in a new windowThis article lists some bad habits that presenters have, and explains how you can stop making these mistakes.
Delivery videos
- Good / Bad Examples of Presentations - Opens in a new windowThis video demonstrates some do's and don'ts for delivering a presentation.