Presentation preparation

What can go wrong in a speech? What is the worst case scenario of presenting…?

… For the presenter?

Being uprepared/not knowing enough

Dragging it out/not getting to the point

Forgetting words (on topic)

Going blank

Losing your train of thought

Speech trouble (pronunciation)

Using jargon or slang that audience don’t understand

Uh and like and basically (word repetition)

Talking too fast

Anxiety

No interest/lack of desire in subject

Rudeness from the classmates

Audience is bored

Non-responsive audience

Audience asking too many questions

… For the audience/witnesses?

Being rude

Being hostile

Not paying attention

Missing the main points

Failing to ask a question that you would like to ask

Absence of speaker (no lesson taught)

Asking extremely disruptive questions

How can you combat these things…?

… For audience?

How to be a good listener & audience?

Receive

Appreciate

Summarize

Ask

NOTE: Though the student is more often the audience, the teacher must also be able to listen to the students when they, for example, ask questions, propose examples or counterexamples, explore an idea, etc.

… For the speaker?

How to speak so that people want to listen?

What makes a great talk, great? 
NOTE: Although this talk is primarily about presenting on cutting edge ideas, there is still a lot of useful information in it.

How to give a presentation worth listening to? 

What are some simple useful presentation skills? 
WARNING: This is a tearjerker.