PD

Prep CYF Blocks presentation

Module
Fundamentals
Skill
[Communication]
Minutes
80

Learning Objectives

  • Create a tailored presentation that is time-bound, concise and appropriate for the audience

Preparation

  1. Write your notes on Google Docs.
  2. Comment on your GitHub Project issue with a link to the document.

Introduction

You will give a presentation about your work with CYF Blocks to your peers. So let’s prepare for it.

Exercises

Questions to help guiding your presentation content (20 minutes)

Goal: Package the parts of a presentation to be effective.

Write one or two sentences on each of the following: 

  1. What is CYF Blocks? (in one or two sentences)
  2. What did you do with it?
  3. What prerequisite knowledge and skills does it need?
  4. What should another person understand before you explain the details?
  5. What was the best thing about it?
  6. What was the worst thing about it?
  7. What would you like to do next after the experience?
  8. In conclusion, what should the audience remember?

Thinking about how different audiences would influence your presentation content (20 minutes)

Goal: Adapting your presentation to different audiences

How would your presentation change according to the audience? Write notes or keywords, or sentences for each of these:

  1. Explain what CYF Blocks is to a technical expert who can create it.
  2. Explain it to a professional who knows a bit about designing websites but has yet to gain practical experience.
  3. Explain what it is to your grandmother.
  4. Explain what it is to a 10-year-old child.

Adapting your presentation to different purpose (20 minutes)

Goal: Package the parts of a presentation to be effective

How would your presentation change according to your goal?
Write notes or keywords, or sentences for each of these:

  1. Persuade your best friend that they should try it like you did.
  2. Sell CYF Blocks as a commercial product to an organisation that teaches coding skills.
  3. Tell your boss why you won’t develop her website with CYF Blocks.
  4. Suggest an improvement to the developers of CYF Blocks.
  5. Ask for a refund because you paid for it but are not satisfied.
  6. Tell the CYF team what you have learned from it.

How is your presentation benefiting the audience (20 minutes)

Goal: Package the parts of a presentation to be effective.

What benefit would the audience gain from listening to you? Don’t repeat yourself from the previous exercises.

  1. A trainee in the next class of CYF
  2. Your grandmother
  3. The boss wants a new website.