Haha! Lottie (yes that's me) has got to give a lecture to the biology classes and psychology classes at college! :hihi:
Please bear in mind people that I got an E in my AS biology exam!
We are fundraising at college for the KT Foundation (Foundation for Klippel Trenaunay - the condition that thinks it has me)
So, as part of the awareness raising process, I have to go into biology classes and give them a presentation about what KT is, how it affects the body etc. etc.
I also have to go into the psychology classes and explain how it affects people mentally and how many KT patients suffer from depression.
HAHA! I am going to go now and try and write something vaguely intellectual!
Haha! Lottie (yes that's me) has got to give a lecture to the biology classes and psychology classes at college! :hihi:
Please bear in mind people that I got an E in my AS biology exam!
We are fundraising at college for the KT Foundation (Foundation for Klippel Trenaunay - the condition that thinks it has me)
So, as part of the awareness raising process, I have to go into biology classes and give them a presentation about what KT is, how it affects the body etc. etc.
I also have to go into the psychology classes and explain how it affects people mentally and how many KT patients suffer from depression.
HAHA! I am going to go now and try and write something vaguely intellectual!
Hi Lotti, don't panic I have to do this every week (to over 100 degree students!). Best tip I can give you, is that the better you know what you are going to talk about, the less nervous you'll be. Don't rely on crib sheets they only get you in a mess because you get ahead or behind yourself.
Good luck I'm sure it'll be great :thumbsup:
I practiced the very first talk I gave for about week before hand, til I knew it inside out and back to front. It still didn't stop me from being as nervous as a very, very nevous thing on the day. However, I found - and I bet you do too - that as soon as you've got out the first few words, you'll even start to enjoy it. Now I only spend half an hour feeling ill before a talk, instead of the previous 24 hours ;) .
Don't try to remember your talk word for word - you'll end up sounding stilted unless you're a good actress. Try to talk around your subject a little bit, as it'll sound more natural. Make lots of eye contect with people in your audience (though don't give them hard stares; you'll look scarey!). Keep your slides or overheads simple, if you're using them, and use a nice big font. Less is more. Diagrams are good too.
Good luck. You'll be fine :) .
Well, I'm sure you'll do extremely well with so many years experience of this condition under you're belt. If you're not an expert in the subject area then no-one else is likely to be either.
Best advice I ever received is a consistent mantra from a long-standing friend is to keep it simple. It worked so well that I do my best to try and apply this thinking to everything I do. However, I think that with the best will in the world people are unlikely to keep focussed on what you've got to say for more than 10-15 minutes. So perhaps prepare to speak for that amount of time (which is quite a lot of talking, and then possibly throw open to questions and allow the wealth of complexity of this condition to come out during the questions and related discussion from your audience(s).
I am sure you will do extremely well.
By the way this has been done before when dragon found he had to give a lecture at some University (cambridge by the looks of things) and here's the link for it: www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=68657
Unfortunately he never let any of us know the outcome so perhaps he ignored our invaluable advice. :D