Poster/PowerPoint Presentations Schedule – 2nd Year Medical Students 2011

I have scheduled your presentations (see table below or this Word document) in order to get an idea if we can fit all of them into the current English course timetable of the groups. Although tentative starting times are mentioned for each presentation, they are not rigid and should not determine you to miss your colleagues’ presentations if you want to attend them. You should be there at the beginning of each 2-hour session and minimise disturbance and interruptions. Of course, if there are special situations, you may “negotiate” the time/order of your presentations, or you may come only when you’re scheduled. I’m flexible and so are your colleagues (I hope). However, if we drift away too much from the schedule, I’m afraid I’ll have to reschedule some teams/students (e.g. next week same day & time).

Please don’t forget that you actually present your work to an audience and not only to your teacher. As recommended, you should avoid reading [too much] from notes or talking to the poster or the laptop/TV screen. Make sure you can let me know who did what in the project, in case I ask that. There will be a laptop available for PowerPoint presentations so make sure you bring your work on a memory stick and first copy it to the hard disk. Your PP document must have a clear and informative file name: title and author(s) .

Approximate time for a team: 10-15 minutes (this includes 3-5 minutes for questions or comments).

The aspects I’ll be looking at include (but are not restricted to):

- content
- correctness of written and spoken language
- fluency
- intelligibility
- turn-taking strategies
- general impression

I have prepared a description of criteria that you can see here.

The final results will be issued as soon as I have worked them out.

I’d appreciate it if you informed all your colleagues about this. Thank you and … Good luck!

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