Whether you're speaking before a general audience or before your peers,
fostering excellent presentation skills can only enhance one's
scientific career. Good communication isn't just about what you say, or
what's on your PowerPoint slides. It's also a form of performance that
requires attention to tone of voice, body language, making eye contact,
and learning to read your audience's reactions and adapt your
presentation accordingly -- in real time. These are not skills that come
naturally to most people, whether you're a physicist or a science writer.
Ottiliana Rolandsson (actress/director and soon-to-be newly
minted PhD in UCSB's Department of Dramatic Art) will discuss how the
tools and techniques employed by actors can extend beyond the walls of
the theater to improve communication and collaboration in any given
field. She will then lead willing volunteers in a series of training
exercises to demonstrate how these tools can be employed to enhance our
future presentations.
Begin streaming QuickTime of the whole talk (high bandwidth).
Begin streaming RealMedia for the whole talk: high bandwidth or medium bandwidth.
Or, stream audio only for the whole talk:
high bandwidth or low bandwidth.
(Or, right-click to download the whole audio file.)