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INFO 414 Human
Information Behavior
Presentation tips
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Presenting Tips
Tell a story
Speak clearly in a strong voice
Face your audience, but don’t
stand in one place the entire time
Use body language and make eye contact
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Presentation tips
Engage your audience
Gauge your audience’s
reactions, communicate
Be prepared to cut pieces if time
runs out
Practice
Relax
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Materials
Organize your material
Use a large font with lots of
white space
Use graphics to liven up slides
– don’t go overboard
Don’t use too many slides
Summarize complex content in a
handout
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Project
presentation 20mins
Introduction
Tell the story of your project
in brief
give an overview
developing a user centered
agent for information provision (product, resource, service)
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Project
presentation
Explain the process – theory
and practice
User centered design; the value
added model and the information consolidation process
Understanding the Information
behavior of the user group is the key
What do information
professionals do in this process
study information behavior; select and evaluate information resources; gap analysis; analyze, restructure, repackage and design information
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Project
presentation
Description of the user group
Definition
Information needs
Tasks
Resources
Evaluation criteria
General
Subject specific
User derived – link to the information behaviors of your group
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Project
presentation
Gap analysis
What is a gap analysis?
Describe what you found when
you conducted a gap analysis for your group
Specifications for the agent
for information provision that will fill the identified gap
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Project
presentation
Introducing the prototype
Talk about it
Describe it
Justify everything – be very
specific
Link specific design considerations directly to your knowledge of the information behavior of your group and what you discovered when you conducted your gap analysis
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Project
presentation
Plans for field testing and
implementation
Conclusion
Sum up
Make your case
Sell the idea in your
concluding statement
You are the expert - an information professional – emphasize the theory, processes and practices