Top Five Strategies to a Successful Oral Presentation

1. Prepare your presentation and practise speaking it out loud.

2. Tell your audience what your main points/arguments are.

3. Tell your audience how your talk is organised.

4. Let your audience know you understand the topic. Give them credit for what they already know.

5. Signal that you're about to finish. Summarise your main points and end on a positive note.

Module 1: Week 2

Application Skills


Lecture Summary

• General uses for computers

• Brief overview on applications and tasks, such as: Word, Excel, WWW and Media Player

Lab

The tasks for this week:

• Open the document Word Exercises in MyECU and follow and complete the activity on styles & formatting

• Open the document Excel Excercises in MyECU and follow and complete the activity on tables, formulae & charts

Assignment 1 Progress

To prove that I have completed this weeks activities I have included some screen captures of my work below.

Module 1: Week 1

COURSE INTRODUCTION

Lecture Summary:

• Description of course



• Learning outcomes



• Course Structure



• Assessments



• Student Responsibilities



• Background information on PC's



• Equipment required



• Required and new skills to be acquired



• A look into how to use blackboard

Lab

The tasks for this week:

• Use SIMO to check our enrolment details and timetable
  
• Login to our email account and send an email with an attachment to another student
  
• Login to 'MyECU' and use 'Blackboard'

Assessment 1 Progress

To get started on assessment 1 we were required to create a weblog using blogger.com. As you can see I was successful in creating my account.

The next step was to create an account at imageshack.us and learn how to create screenshots and save them as .jpg's. With these .jpg files I can now post them into my blog.
For example: