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This article was co-authored by Patrick Muñoz . Patrick is an internationally recognized Voice & Speech Coach, focusing on public speaking, vocal power, accent and dialects, accent reduction, voiceover, acting and speech therapy. He has worked with clients such as Penelope Cruz, Eva Longoria, and Roselyn Sanchez. He was voted LA's Favorite Voice and Dialect Coach by BACKSTAGE, is the voice and speech coach for Disney and Turner Classic Movies, and is a member of Voice and Speech Trainers Association. There are 10 references cited in this article, which can be found at the bottom of the page. wikiHow marks an article as reader-approved once it receives enough positive feedback. This article has 27 testimonials from our readers, earning it our reader-approved status. This article has been viewed 511,948 times.
Giving a presentation terrifies most of us, especially when talking before a crowd of people about an unfamiliar topic. Never fear! There are ways to make a good presentation. The more presentations you do, the easier they will become!
Preparing For the Presentation
- It's best to have 1 main thesis statement or overarching theme and 3 main points that back-up or flesh-out your main theme. Any more than that and your audience is going to start losing interest. This means that any facts and information that are a part of your presentation should back up these 3 main points and overarching theme.
- For example: If you're giving a presentation about 17th century alchemy, bringing up the history of alchemy is fine (and probably necessary), but don't mire your audience in its history instead of focusing alchemy in the 17th century. Your 3 points could be something like "alchemy in public opinion," "famous 17th century alchemists," and "the legacy of 17th century alchemy."
- Pick your very best supporting facts, information, or quotes for your presentation. Don't bury your audience in information.
- Make sure you're using media to enhance your presentation and not to drown it out. The presentation is key. Anything else is just accessorizing.
- For example: to get back to 17th century alchemy, to back up your information about alchemy in the public opinion, you might want to show images from public pamphlets about the dangers of alchemy and see what people of the time period had to say about it and see what the more famous alchemists had to say about it.
- Also, you want to make sure that you pick a medium that you are comfortable in and thorough in knowledge. If you don't know a thing about PowerPoint, maybe consider writing your main points on a white board, or passing out handouts with your main points and evidence on them. [3] X Research source
- A good tip is to film yourself or audiotape of yourself giving your practice presentation so you can see what distracting verbal and physical tics you have, so that you can work on eliminating them before the presentation itself. (Verbs tics would be things like "um..." and "uh..." and using "like" inappropriately; physical tics are things like shifting your weight from foot to foot or messing with your hair.) To stop yourself from saying "um" or other unwanted tics, be aware you're doing it first, then speak more slowly and deliberately. Breathe deeply and feel free to pause and appreciate the silence. These will all help you to have mastery over your tics.
- Just remember that rehearsals usually run about 20% shorter than your actual presentation, so take that into account if you're running on a time limit.
- For example, if you aren't comfortable wearing heels, don't wear them just for the presentation. You'll be distracted by your discomfort and that will come across in the presentation. There are plenty of good shoe choices that have no or a low heel.
- Clean, nice slacks or a skirt and nice, button-down shirt in neutral colors are always good choices for presentation wear. You also don't particularly want your clothing choice to distract from the presentation, so perhaps avoid that brilliant hot pink shirt.
Giving the Presentation
- Before the presentation, clench and unclench your hands several times to deal with the adrenaline and then take 3 deep, slow breaths.
- Call up a smile, even if you feel like hurling. You can trick your brain into thinking that you're less anxious than you actually are and you'll also be able to hide your nervousness from your audience.
- Make eye contact with your audience. Don't stare at one particular person, but section up the room and make eye contact with someone in each section on a rotational basis.
- Have a big, welcoming smile on your face, with lots of energy, so you start out from a strong and engaging place.
- Ask questions of your audience and take questions during your presentation. This will make it more of a conversation and therefore more interesting.
- Tell an amusing anecdote to illustrate your point. From the above examples about 17th century alchemy, you could find an amusing alchemical anecdote from the time period, or you could talk about your own forays into alchemy.
- Move around, but make your movements deliberate. Don't nervously shift your feet (in fact, it's a good idea to imagine that your feet are nailed to the floor except for those times you deliberately choose to move).
- Use your vocal inflections to create a more dynamic presentation. Vary your voice as you're talking. Nobody ( ever ) wants to sit there and listen to someone drone on and on in dull monotone, no matter how interesting the material (think Professor Binns from Harry Potter; that's what you don't want).
- Try to create a balance between rehearsed and spontaneous. Spontaneous, on the spot, movement and asides can be great as long as you are really comfortable, otherwise they can sidetrack your presentation and make it rambling. Mess around with spontaneous and rehearsed when you're practicing and you'll get a feel for it.
- Quickly introduce your topic and don't assume that your audience is familiar with all the terms, especially if your topic is one that isn't widely known.
- Figuring out why you want (or have to) give this presentation will help you work with an overarching story/theme. Maybe you want to pass the class. Maybe you're convincing people to give you money or join you in a philanthropic endeavor or act for a social or political reason. Channel that desire into your presentation. You're answering the question of why they would want to pass you or why they would want to fund you. That's the story you're telling.
- Make use of pauses, and learn to be comfortable with silences. Silence can be a powerful presentation tool and gives you a chance to take a moment to recompose. By taking pauses, you can slow down your breathing and be more deliberate in your speech, avoiding speaking too quickly.
- Have water with you and take a sip when you feel you're going too fast.
- If you have a friend in the class or meeting, arrange with them beforehand that they will let you know with a signal whether you're talking too quickly. Look over their way occasionally and check your progress.
- If you find that you're running out of time and you haven't finished, simply drop or summarize your leftover material. Acknowledge the leftover material as something that can be discussed later or in the Q&A.
- Make it clear what the listeners now know and why it is important that they have this new information.
- Conclude with examples or stories about your main point and take home message. You might want a slide which summarizes your presentation. For example, you might conclude with a story about the nature of alchemy in the modern era (perhaps in a film) to show its malleable nature.
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- Have a short Q&A session at the end of each subtopic. Q&A sessions will improve audience engagement. It also acts as a welcome break for audience in case of long presentation. For this though, you will need to know the subject you choose well. Make sure you understand and have more than just the basic knowledge about the topic you choose. ⧼thumbs_response⧽ Helpful 1 Not Helpful 0
- Use pictures or visuals. Pictures and visuals show that you know what you're talking about, and it gives the audience a picture of what you're talking about. ⧼thumbs_response⧽ Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0
- Try to have a "leave behind" message, something that your audience can take away that reminds them about your presentation, like a flyer or a book, for example. ⧼thumbs_response⧽ Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0
- Don't make your speech too long, unless it is really good, and you have to have done speeches for a long time to have them be that good and long. Stick to short and sweet. ⧼thumbs_response⧽ Helpful 49 Not Helpful 11
- Don't put off work to the last minute. Then your work will be most likely sloppy. If you do well under pressure, do your project a bit at a time and maybe it will get done. Or, try doing it all at the beginning, so then you have the whole rest of the time to play or check your assignment. ⧼thumbs_response⧽ Helpful 35 Not Helpful 16
- Jokes are usually not okay, especially in a professional setting. A light hearted comment is fine, but don't make it seem like a comedy show. ⧼thumbs_response⧽ Helpful 11 Not Helpful 3
- If you speak in a too fast/slow or monotone voice, people will not want to hear you! Aim for a conversation voice (but slightly louder) with natural pauses (commas and periods). Develop a tone depending on what you're talking about. It's more interesting and engaging to hear someone speak in a serious tone rather than a monotone when speaking about world hunger. ⧼thumbs_response⧽ Helpful 7 Not Helpful 2
- If you suffer from twitchy fingers, be mindful to move your hands during your presentation only when necessary, or the audience may notice and feel you are unprepared. ⧼thumbs_response⧽ Helpful 8 Not Helpful 3
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- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/young-entrepreneur-council/13-tips-for-giving-a-kill_b_3728093.html
- ↑ https://www.niu.edu/presentations/prepare/index.shtml
- ↑ https://algonquincollege.libguides.com/studyskills/creating-presentations
- ↑ https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/how-to-prepare-the-presentation
- ↑ http://www.washington.edu/doit/TeamN/present_tips.html
- ↑ https://counseling.uiowa.edu/self-help/30-ways-to-manage-speaking-anxiety/
- ↑ https://www.hamilton.edu/academics/centers/oralcommunication/guides/how-to-engage-your-audience-and-keep-them-with-you
- ↑ http://hbr.org/2013/06/how-to-give-a-killer-presentation/ar/1
- ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-slow-down-your-speech-when-presenting-sharon-maree-jurd-cfe/
- ↑ https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/how-to-conclude-a-presentation
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Before you give a presentation, spend some time crafting what you will say. Most presentations should center on a thesis, or main idea, and contain about 3 supporting points. Cutting unnecessary content will ensure your presentation is impactful. Once your presentation is done, practice delivering it in front of a mirror or while recording yourself so you can identify and correct any issues. To calm your nerves before you present, try clenching your fists a few times and taking several deep breaths. For more advice about giving presentations, like whether to use visual aides, keep reading! Did this summary help you? Yes No
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What Are Wikis, and Why Should You Use Them?
'Wiki' is one of the most prevalent buzzwords on the Internet, right up there with 'cloud computing' and 'responsive design'.
When you hear the word 'wiki', you most likely think immediately of Wikipedia , the famous online encyclopedia. Then there's WikiLeaks , the source of leaked government secrets. With both sites bearing the same weird root word, you would be forgiven for thinking they're related. They're not. At least not in the way you might think.
What is a 'wiki' defined as today? This term "wiki" actually means quick in Hawaiian. The journey from that definition to today's definition of "a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users" is quite the interesting story , best told by Ward Cunningham, the father of the modern wiki.
The important part of wikis—what makes them different from any other type of website—is collaborative editing by the users . Think about that for a moment: the ability for the users of a wiki to collaboratively edit it. If you can read it, you can edit it. It seems simple at first, yet profoundly powerful in practice—and it's what both Wikipedia and WikiLeaks have in common.
That's what we're going to explore: the benefits a wiki can provide to a business, the sort of problems it can solve, why you might use a wiki, and what sort of options you have for setting up a wiki for yourself. It's a lot to cover, so let's keep things moving.
What Wikis Do
To really appreciate what wikis in and of themselves do for your business, we need to first travel back in time, back to the original days of the web. By looking at what the first wiki was intended to do, the current state of wiki software will make a lot more sense.
I mentioned Ward Cunningham, father of the wiki, earlier. On the front page of his own wiki , he gives some insight into the origins of wikis and what they're designed to do.
The idea of a "Wiki" may seem odd at first, but dive in, explore its links and it will soon seem familiar. "Wiki" is a composition system; it's a discussion medium; it's a repository; it's a mail system; it's a tool for collaboration. We don't know quite what it is, but we do know it's a fun way to communicate asynchronously across the network.
I love that summary. In the beginning, Ward and his colleagues didn't even know what wikis were supposed to do exactly. But they knew it was fun.
From that short summary we can pull out some of the main themes of wikis: composing, discussing, hyperlinking, collaborating, communicating.
Notice something about those words? They're all verbs . They're what wikis do .
1. Quick Composing With Wikis
How do wikis work? At their core, wikis are composition systems. They're trying to make it as easy as possible to write on a webpage. This is so important because it's something that separates wikis from your average website.
Most people only visit a site like Wikipedia to read something, just like they do most websites, so this aspect of wikis is often lost on the casual observer. But back in the late 1990s, when Ward Cunningham built his wiki, it was the easy authoring of web content that he had in mind.
At that time, web pages were almost always written by hand in HTML. HTML is fine as a markup language, and it still powers the web today. But it can be a cumbersome language to type by hand, and frequently gets in the way of just writing . This is especially true when you try to do more than type simple paragraphs. If you want to add any sort of structure or formatting to a document, the HTML markup quickly swallows up the content.
Ward wanted a tool that let people write web pages quickly (see how the name wiki comes back into play here?) and HTML wasn't quick enough. So within his wiki system was a basic text formatting system. It was simpler and easier to type than HTML tags, and was less obtrusive when writing and editing wiki pages. Plus, it enabled anyone to edit a wiki, without having to know how to edit HTML code.
And so in turn, quick and easy composition has become a cornerstone of wiki design. It should be faster and easier to write and edit text in a wiki than hand-writing HTML code. The wiki syntax—which is somewhat similar to the now-popular Markdown syntax—is designed to help decrease friction when writing and editing wiki pages, which in turn helps users to write and edit more frequently.
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2. Wikis Are Great For Collaborating
The Internet has simplified communications to such a degree that today, talking to someone on the other side of the world isn't even that exciting. In the early days of the Web that power was all the more tantalizing. Today's Internet-powered communication apps didn't yet exist, so the web itself was the primary way to communicate. That's part of what made the wiki such a fascinating product, it's great for discussing, collaborating, and communicating.
Flexible Access for Editing Wiki Pages
We already looked at how the wiki made things quicker to edit than your average web page. But the wiki allowed for something else unique: anyone who could read a wiki page had the ability to edit that wiki page. In its most open sense, a wiki is editable by any visitor.
It was this feature that Ward was referring to when he called the wiki "a discussion medium; a mail system; a tool for collaboration." These days, wiki software allows for more control over who can edit the wiki, but the power of the feature remains the same. You can make a wiki into all of those things Ward mentioned and more.
Editing doesn't just have to mean working together to make a site—it can also mean just updating a wiki page about a project to let others know how it's progressing, for instance. When you start thinking about it in the context of business, the potential gets pretty exciting, doesn't it?
3. Hyperlinking Powers All Wikis
Hyperlinking is certainly nothing new—it's been around since the dawn of the Web. It's the first word in the acronym "HTML". But how the first wiki handled hyperlinks was what made it so special, and that's why linking has become a cornerstone of wiki design to this day.
Adding Links to Wiki Pages is Quick
Just like everything else we've looked at so far, adding and creating links within the wiki is designed to be fast and easy. Notice I said within the wiki —it's internal links that are designed to be so easy to make.
The specific syntax for creating an internal link differs between different wiki systems, but what they all have in common is efficiency. That, among other reasons, is why it's so easy to get lost in Wikipedia, since there's always more info to explore among the dozens of links on any page.
The Power of Linking to Future Wiki Pages
Beyond just being quick to add, something else that's special about links in wikis is that you can link to something that doesn't exist. What do I mean by that? Well, let me illustrate: what if you're writing a wiki page, and you want to go more in-depth on a particular subject? You can create a link to a page about that subject, even though the other page doesn't yet exist.
Take a moment to think about that. It's simple, yet profound.
And it fits in so neatly with the vision Ward Cunningham had for his wiki in the first place. He wanted it to be a fertile place for communication, discourse, and the sharing of knowledge.
Here we have a simple and straight-forward means for one user to request further thought and discussion on a particular topic. Or, used a different way, the means for a user to map out subjects he wants to elaborate on in the future. A natural to-do list, if you will, one that automatically makes the original project better when the tasks are completed.
These two aspects of linking within wikis come together into something more special than your average hyperlink. They help facilitate growth within the wiki. It's by means of this sort of linking that wikis start becoming magical.
Are Wikis Right for My Business?
So, in a nutshell, wikis:
- Make it quick and easy to write information on web pages.
- Facilitate communication and discussion, since it's easy for those who are reading a wiki page to edit that page themselves.
- Allow for quick and easy linking between wiki pages, including pages that don't yet exist on the wiki.
But that's still a bit abstract. It might help you see how Wikipedia because such a success, but it's a bit harder to see how it can benefit your business. For that, here's some specific examples of what a wiki can do for you. I think you'll be convinced they're the perfect solution for your business.
1. Wikis Are the Documentation Dream
Every business wants detailed, well-maintained documentation. And yet, it so often feels like a pipe dream. Back in the day, maybe your business documentation was a detailed employee handbook, meticulously researched, maybe spiral-bound, and made in-house. But it's the 21st century; nobody wants to use something like that anymore.
You could try modernizing things, going digital with your documentation. Perhaps you could have some Word documents in shared folders for your entire company. That would certainly give you some nice features. It's digital, syncs to your different employees computers, and it's easy to write and edit... well, as long as everyone has Microsoft Word.
But, what if you want to reference a document while you're in a meeting, and you don't have your computer right in front of you? How about trying to search for a particular procedure, or an important technique in those Word docs? After all, it'd take a lot of Word docs to document everything. Then, it'd be way too easy for someone to accidentally delete a document, or edit out something important, and the only way to fix the mistake would be to restore from a backup.
And we haven't even talked about trying to associate different documents with each other. How do you connect documents together when you're talking about Word files in a shared folder? Let's look at a simple scenario:
The Problem With Organizing Business Documents
Let's say you have a few different departments all writing their own documentation. How do you organize all of those documents? Just throwing them all inside one shared folder will get messy quickly. So you start putting some of those documents inside folders.
Let's say you organize those folders by department.
- Now what happens if a document could apply to more than one department, and therefore fits into more than one folder?
- Do you place a copy of that document in each folder?
- What happens when someone edits one of those documents?
- How do those changes make their way to the copies of that same document?
See how things can get out of hand quickly? I don't mean to bash on Word documents in shared folders. If a system like that genuinely works for you, I'm happy for you. But if you've encountered any of the issues I just described, then you owe it to yourself to examine a wiki as a solution for your business.
2. Making That Dream a Reality
How can a wiki help to make your documentation dreams a reality?
Think about office memos, the ones you feel like you're always resending. With a wiki, they turn into a single page with a link you can display somewhere everyone will see it. When it comes time to edit that memo, it's simple and easy. And the best part is, the link will always be accurate, even after you've edited the memo. Cool, right?
Create a Searchable, Online Product Catalog
Do you have a large and complex catalog of products? Imagine it neatly organized in one place. A place that's searchable, easily editable, and links related products together. That's a wiki, my friend. Neat, huh?
Make a Knowledge Base for Your Team
What if you have a sales-based business? With a wiki you can help your salesmen keep track of their sales numbers, client information, or sales tips and tricks, all in one convenient place. And you can set up your wiki so that it's accessible to them when they're out in the field, from any type of mobile device. Now that feels like the 21st century, doesn't it?
Build a Wiki Intranet for Business Training
Now, think about how a wiki can revolutionize employee training. The wiki becomes a consistent place to put business policies, best practices, standards, and guidelines. All the things that you've learned over time, a new employee can benefit from right away just by reading the wiki. You can stop worrying about teaching the same thing over and over again. Write it once now, and it will teach everyone in the future—and will be easy to edit when things change.
A wiki can be home to all of this and more. Remember what makes a wiki unique: they're easy to edit, accessible from anything with a web browser, with simple and intuitive linking between pages. These features help facilitate the sort of environment where quality documentation like you've always wanted can grow and thrive.
Make Your Own Wiki (Take the Next Step)
I hope by now you appreciate what a wiki does, and how it can benefit a small business, school, your personal life, and anything else. Now, all you'll need to do is to make your own wiki, and put it to use in your work.
You can set up a wiki with MediaWiki on your own server, or in one click with most web hosting services. Alternatively, you could use a hosted wiki service like PBworks or Wikia . The basics are the same, no matter which you choose.
You can also use WordPress to setup your wiki with. We offer popular ga-analytics#sendMarketClickEvent">WordPress wiki themes on our ThemeForest marketplace. They're great for making corporate intranets, collaborate knowledge based sites, helpdesk setups, and other types of business wikis.
But it can still be a bit complicated getting your wiki started, and learning how to actually use it to create, edit, and link content. That's where our next tutorial comes in. Here's everything you need to get your wiki up and running .
To learn even more about Wikis, review this tutorial:
Editorial Note: This post was originally published in 2014. It has been comprehensively revised to make current, accurate, and up to date by our staff—with special assistance from Laura Spencer .
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The formal presentation of information is divided into two broad categories: Presentation Skills and Personal Presentation .
These two aspects are interwoven and can be described as the preparation, presentation and practice of verbal and non-verbal communication.
This article describes what a presentation is and defines some of the key terms associated with presentation skills.
Many people feel terrified when asked to make their first public talk. Some of these initial fears can be reduced by good preparation that also lays the groundwork for making an effective presentation.
A Presentation Is...
A presentation is a means of communication that can be adapted to various speaking situations, such as talking to a group, addressing a meeting or briefing a team.
A presentation can also be used as a broad term that encompasses other ‘speaking engagements’ such as making a speech at a wedding, or getting a point across in a video conference.
To be effective, step-by-step preparation and the method and means of presenting the information should be carefully considered.
A presentation requires you to get a message across to the listeners and will often contain a ' persuasive ' element. It may, for example, be a talk about the positive work of your organisation, what you could offer an employer, or why you should receive additional funding for a project.
The Key Elements of a Presentation
Making a presentation is a way of communicating your thoughts and ideas to an audience and many of our articles on communication are also relevant here, see: What is Communication? for more.
Consider the following key components of a presentation:
Ask yourself the following questions to develop a full understanding of the context of the presentation.
When and where will you deliver your presentation?
There is a world of difference between a small room with natural light and an informal setting, and a huge lecture room, lit with stage lights. The two require quite different presentations, and different techniques.
Will it be in a setting you are familiar with, or somewhere new?
If somewhere new, it would be worth trying to visit it in advance, or at least arriving early, to familiarise yourself with the room.
Will the presentation be within a formal or less formal setting?
A work setting will, more or less by definition, be more formal, but there are also various degrees of formality within that.
Will the presentation be to a small group or a large crowd?
Are you already familiar with the audience?
With a new audience, you will have to build rapport quickly and effectively, to get them on your side.
What equipment and technology will be available to you, and what will you be expected to use?
In particular, you will need to ask about microphones and whether you will be expected to stand in one place, or move around.
What is the audience expecting to learn from you and your presentation?
Check how you will be ‘billed’ to give you clues as to what information needs to be included in your presentation.
All these aspects will change the presentation. For more on this, see our page on Deciding the Presentation Method .
The role of the presenter is to communicate with the audience and control the presentation.
Remember, though, that this may also include handing over the control to your audience, especially if you want some kind of interaction.
You may wish to have a look at our page on Facilitation Skills for more.
The audience receives the presenter’s message(s).
However, this reception will be filtered through and affected by such things as the listener’s own experience, knowledge and personal sense of values.
See our page: Barriers to Effective Communication to learn why communication can fail.
The message or messages are delivered by the presenter to the audience.
The message is delivered not just by the spoken word ( verbal communication ) but can be augmented by techniques such as voice projection, body language, gestures, eye contact ( non-verbal communication ), and visual aids.
The message will also be affected by the audience’s expectations. For example, if you have been billed as speaking on one particular topic, and you choose to speak on another, the audience is unlikely to take your message on board even if you present very well . They will judge your presentation a failure, because you have not met their expectations.
The audience’s reaction and therefore the success of the presentation will largely depend upon whether you, as presenter, effectively communicated your message, and whether it met their expectations.
As a presenter, you don’t control the audience’s expectations. What you can do is find out what they have been told about you by the conference organisers, and what they are expecting to hear. Only if you know that can you be confident of delivering something that will meet expectations.
See our page: Effective Speaking for more information.
How will the presentation be delivered?
Presentations are usually delivered direct to an audience. However, there may be occasions where they are delivered from a distance over the Internet using video conferencing systems, such as Skype.
It is also important to remember that if your talk is recorded and posted on the internet, then people may be able to access it for several years. This will mean that your contemporaneous references should be kept to a minimum.
Impediments
Many factors can influence the effectiveness of how your message is communicated to the audience.
For example background noise or other distractions, an overly warm or cool room, or the time of day and state of audience alertness can all influence your audience’s level of concentration.
As presenter, you have to be prepared to cope with any such problems and try to keep your audience focussed on your message.
Our page: Barriers to Communication explains these factors in more depth.
Continue to read through our Presentation Skills articles for an overview of how to prepare and structure a presentation, and how to manage notes and/or illustrations at any speaking event.
Continue to: Preparing for a Presentation Deciding the Presentation Method
See also: Writing Your Presentation | Working with Visual Aids Coping with Presentation Nerves | Dealing with Questions Learn Better Presentation Skills with TED Talks
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In many classrooms, the instructor provides most of the course content. With wikis, students have an opportunity to create – together – much of the course content. Wikis shift your students from ‘consumer of knowledge’ to ‘creators of knowledge,’ which is a great way to encourage your students to develop critical thinking skills, to learn from one another, and to improve their ability to work in groups.
When to use a wiki
As you’re beginning to see, wikis are ideal for group projects that emphasize collaboration and editing. Some common uses include:
- Mini research projects in which the wiki serves as documentation of student work
- Collaborative annotated bibliographies where students add summaries and critiques about course-related readings
- Compiling a manual or glossary of useful terms or concepts related to the course, or even a guide to a major course concept
- Maintaining a collection of links where the instructor and students can post, comment, group or classify links relevant to the course
- Building an online repository of course documents where instructors and students can post relevant documents
- Creating e-portfolios of student work
Wikis work best when individual authorship is less important than the outcome that is created. Also, wikis are most appropriate for content that doesn’t need to be protected from accidental editing.
Curious about how other instructors are using wikis? Take a look at these real life examples:
- Chris Paris, lecturer at Vanderbilt Divinity, used a wiki in his “Bible in American Culture” class as a way to have students share pop culture references to the Bible, creating a shared class resource. In his “Literary Analysis of the Hebrew Bible” course, he asked students to take turns taking notes on class discussions and to share those notes on the class wiki. See more about his wiki use here .
- Lou Rossi, Professor at the University of Delaware, used wikis in his Calculus undergraduate course and his Applied Mathematics graduate course. Using a wiki helps students spend time on solving problems outside of the classroom in a motivating collaborative environment. Publishing in a wiki gets students aware of the fact that they are writing for an audience, which usually results in using common mathematical language and formulas instead of plain English. Hear more about his work on this podcast .
- Columbia University Lecturer Jutta Schmiers-Heller created two separate wikis (one in the fall semester and one in the spring semester) to help the same set of Intermediate I German language students practice and recycle vocabulary and grammar, and learn culture in a fun, interactive way. Both wikis were embedded in the course curriculum and used for specific projects. See more about her wiki use here .
- Associate professor of English at Barnard, Derrick Higginbotham, used his course wiki as a presentation space and tool for text analysis for students. His course assignments included a close reading of texts within the wiki followed by student discussion in the discuss section of the wiki page. In the discussion section of each page, students responded to each others thoughts and analysis of the text, thus creating discourse outside of class and fueling the discussion in class. See more about his wiki use here .
Why use a wiki?
One of the primary reasons to use wikis is because they help your students reach Bloom’s higher order skills – things like creating and evaluating. Additionally, wikis achieve many of Chickering and Ehrmann good teaching practices including cooperation between students, active learning, prompt feedback from peers, time on task, the articulation of high expectations, and support for diverse talents.
Practically, we also think that wikis are a good tool to use because access and editing can be controlled by the instructor thus making a wiki public or private. Additionally, wikis are accessible online and include user friendly features that require little training. It’s likely your students will know exactly what to do!
How to get started with wikis
There are a variety of free and easy to use wikis that make it quick and easy to get started using wikis. For example, try starting with:
- EditMe https://www.editme.com/ The simplest wiki solution for your business or classroom. Share content and files, capture knowledge and manage processes.
- For some other alternative sites, please also check out some of these links; https://www.pbworks.com/education.html https://moodle.org/ https://education.weebly.com/
Each of these options has example wikis that you can view to get an idea of the possibilities the tool.
Once you’ve chosen a tool, you’ll also want to:
- Make instructions explicit and provide clear expectations
- Build in time for practice
- Publish due dates for multi-phase projects
- Start with a simple wiki assignment before attempting a large, collaborative project
What does the research say about wikis?
Research on wikis is still emerging, here we’ll provide a brief annotate bibliography of recent articles:
- Bold, M. (2006). Use of wikis in graduate course work. Journal of Interactive Learning Research , 17(1), 5-14.In the “Use of Wikis in Graduate Course Work,” the researcher evaluates wikis as a viable tool for collaborative work. Bold cites benefits of wikis including ease of collaboration (“A collaborative workspace that can display documents immediately, with a minimal working knowledge of HTML tags”) and ease of use (“wikis require little to no institutional support, financial or technical”). Further, Bold believes wikis don’t just help the student learn the curriculum better, but they help the student learn how to improve their skills in online interaction.
- Deters, F. Cuthrell, K., & Stapleton, J. (2010). Why Wikis? Student Perceptions of Using Wikis in Online Coursework. MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching , 6(1). http://jolt.merlot.org/vol6no1/deters_0310.htm Elementary education professors at a large southeastern College of Education conducted a study for the purpose of exploring student perceptions regarding the use of wikis in online instruction and potential uses for wikis in the K-12 classroom as perceived by respondents. Participants in the study were 40 students enrolled in 1 of 3 graduate level social studies methods courses. Data were collected using surveys and written reflections. Though students reported initial hesitation at learning a new technology, their overall experience using the wikis was positive. The students felt that wikis were a great collaboration tool. Principle themes that emerged from the data were the potential uses of wikis as instructional tools, potential uses for information dissemination, benefits or advantages to using wikis, and limitations regarding the use of wikis. The authors provide a list of questions developed as a result of the study that, when used prior to implementing wikis as a learning tool, will minimize the limitations associated with their use.
- Elgort, I., Smith, A. G., & Toland, J. (2008). Is wiki an effective platform for group course work? Australasian Journal of Educational Technology , 24(2), 195-21. This study reports on students’ and lecturers’ perceptions of using wikis as a platform for conducting assessed group projects in two postgraduate Master’s level university courses. The results highlight the fact that student attitudes to group work, in general, are mixed, and that the use of wikis per se is not enough to improve these attitudes. On the positive side, students found wikis useful for arranging information and sharing knowledge, while instructors thought wikis made managing and marking group work easier and more effective. Other issues related to using wikis as a collaborative learning tool in higher education are also considered.
- Ioannou, A. and ARtino, A. (2009). Wiki and Threaded Discussion for Online Collaborative Activities: Students’ Perceptions and Use. Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, 1(1), 97-106. Researchers used a wiki with 15 graduate students in an online course. Students worked on two different group activities, first using the threaded discussion feature and then using the wiki. The researchers then investigated students’ attitudes about their experience, as well as differences in their processes, after using each technology. The findings suggest that there are clear benefits and limitations inherent to both technologies. The threaded discussion tool was preferred, yet students recognized the potential of the wiki to support collaboration. Practical implications and future directions are discussed, including the need for instructors to support and encourage discussion as a complement to wiki writing, scaffold and model the use of wikis, and create sufficiently complex group tasks to help make wiki use attractive and appropriate.
Common Concerns
A common concern among instructors new to wikis (as with blogs!) is how to evaluate a student’s work. We suggest that before implementing a wiki project in your course, you develop a rubric and explain to students how you will be evaluating their contributions to the wiki. Take a look at some of the existing wiki rubrics, like this one or this one , and adapt it to fit your needs.
Consider how (or if) you will evaluate the wiki’s:
- Content and writing quality Consider if the content is interesting and engaging. Does it include images and videos or slideshows? Has it been proofread?
- Use and accuracy of citations and references Are there links to reliable outside resources that document student thinking?
- Appearance Is the wiki easy to navigate? Is it organized?
- Collaboration among your students The wiki will provide you with clues about collaboration on the “Page History” – you’ll be able to see if the wiki has changed significantly over time as member of the course added new content or revisions to existing content.
As with other types of assignments and projects, the more clear you are with your expectations, the more likely students will be able to meet them. To this end, Dave Foord created a simple acronym to get good results with wiki projects: STOLEN.
More Resources
Wikis in Higher Education (A Report by the University of Delaware): http://udel.edu/~mathieu/wiki/resources/2008-5-23_Wikis_in_Higher_Education_UD.pdf
Wikify Your Course: Designing and Implementing a Wiki for Your Learning Environment: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2010/9/wikify-your-course-designing-and-implementing-a-wiki-for-your-learning-environment/
50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom
Ideas for using blogs and wikis in your course from Duke Center for Instructional Technology http://cit.duke.edu/2009/01/blogs-and-wikis-in-your-course/
Should you use a wiki or a blog?
Wikis are often compared to blogs because, in many ways, they’re similar: they’re easy to edit, are used to collaborate, and each is easy to set up.
The difference between a wiki and a blog is that wikis are designed for collaboration among groups of users. Anyone with the shared wiki password can edit the content on a wiki at any time. Wikis also provide discussion boards for every page, enabling users to engage in ongoing conversations about their developing project.
So how do you choose? We suggest that you consider what you’re hoping to achieve by using a technology in your course. For instance, are you wanting your students to write collaboratively or do you want submissions by a single author? For the former use a wiki, and the latter a blog.
Ready to get started?
The possibilities for using wikis to engage students both inside and outside of the classroom are immense. Don’t hesitate to contact the CFT if you are part of the Vanderbilt instructional community and would like to talk to one of our consultants about incorporating wikis into your teaching.
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- 1. How to create a wiki using pbwiki
- 2. Step 1: Choose a wiki website <ul><li>http:// pbwiki.com / </li></ul><ul><li>http://www.wetpaint.com/ </li></ul><ul><li>http://www.wikispaces.com/ </li></ul><ul><li>I have chosen pbwiki for these instructions. </li></ul>
- 3. Step 2: Using pbwiki sign up to create an account, log in if you have an account, or create a wiki. Consider who will be administering these wikis.
- 4. In your account the wikis you have created will be listed.
- 5. Step 3: From this page you can access any of those listed or scroll down to create a new wiki.
- 6. Step 4: Create a wiki thinking carefully about the URL you will create. We use “tclibrary” as a preface to provide an identity and an umbrella of association. i.e. http://tclibrary-vcebiology.pbwiki.com Select “education” from the menu if appropriate.
- 7. Step 5: Now you can set the password (invite key) and set your wiki for public or private viewing, and check the Terms of Service.
- 8. Step 6: You will be offered the option to upgrade your wiki or to just continue on with a free wiki.
- 9. Step 7: Now you can begin to create your wiki space to your requirements.
- 10. Step 8: Go into “settings” to rename your wiki and to choose a “skin”. At present there are only 5 “skins”. Save your changes then go back to Home.
- 11. Step 9: Now edit your front page. I like to use this page as a title page, but you can really do whatever you want.
- 12. Step 10: Start by deleting all of the default text in the box, then start adding the information you require. I like to use a table especially when using images as this provides structure that is otherwise not there. You can then import an image and type in some text, resizing the table as you go.
- 13. Step 11: Now you can create more pages and the links to them in the Sidebar. So click on the SideBar tab, then edit it by listing your new pages.
- 14. Step 12: Now you will need to create the page for each item.
- 15. Step 13: You can choose the default of “No template” or select one that is offered. Then click on “Create new page”. The new page will open ready for you to add content or you can choose to do this later.
- 16. Step 14: Once you have created all of the new pages you require, you will need to provide links to them via the SideBar. So reopen the SideBar for editing. Highlight the text, and then click on “Link” to access the box. Choose Link Type as Wiki Page and locate the appropriate wiki page in the next drop-down menu. All of the new pages you created should be there. Say OK and repeat this process for all of the new pages. Save your changes.
- 17. Step 15: Now you can add content to your pages. For example, on the Resources page you might like to add websites that are relevant to this wiki. Type in the text, then choose Link. Now choose the “Link Type” as URL then copy and paste the URL of the website into the box, OK
- 18. The “Resources” page created will now look like this with live links:
- 19. Step 16: To add a video that will play automatically. Edit a page then “Insert Plugin”, click on “Video”.
- 20. Step 17: Locate the video you want to include from YouTube and copy and past the text from the embed text box on YouTube into the insert Plugin.
- 21. Save the page. The video will display like this. You can do this with other video formats also.
- 22. Step 18: Want to add some blogs or other RSS that will automatically upload whenever you open the page? This is done via Google gadgets. Open the page where you want to display the RSS, then click edit page, then Insert Plugin. This time choose the “Productivity” option and “Any Google Gadget”. Now click on “here” to go to the Google Gadget directory.
- 23. Step 19: To find a gadget for blogs (or RSS) type RSS into the search box and search. A few options will appear and you can decide which one is best for you.
- 24. Step 20: Click “Add to your webpage” and then fill in the form with the appropriate details. You will need to find the RSS feed URL from the blog you want to add to your wiki.
- 25. Step 21: Then click “get the code” and this will be displayed in a box beneath.
- 26. Step 22: Copy and paste this text into the wiki gadget plugin box, then click next and Save.
- 27. In your wiki the blog will RSS feed will be displayed like this and will be refreshed each time the page is visited.
- 28. Step 23: You can add a gallery of images that will be presented as a moving slideshow. To do this you will need to make an account with either BubbleShare or Slide.com, and then upload the photos you wish to display. In pbwiki open the page you wish to do this in, edit page, and click on Insert plugins. This time choose Photos and either the BubbleShare or Slide.com option. Copy and paste the album code from the URL into the Insert Plugin box.
- 29. Step 24: Click next, finish and save. Your album of images will scroll along automatically.
- 30. Step 25: Sharing the wiki. Click on “Share this wiki”.
- 31. Step 26: Type in the email addresses of those you wish to share the wiki with and click the option for “Full access” or “Just a link”. Then click “Share my wiki”.
- 32. Step 27: On your library or school website create a webpage where the links to these wikis can be easily accessed.
- 33. <ul><li>There are lots of other plugins and functions such as: calendars, maps, spreadsheets, planners, visitor counters, chat rooms, and more, that can be added to your pbwiki . Experiment and see what works for you. </li></ul><ul><li>This presentation created by </li></ul><ul><li>Susan Bentley © 2008 </li></ul>
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LaTeX/Presentations
LaTeX can be used for creating presentations. There are several packages for the task, such as- Powerdot , Prosper , Seminar , etc, however, the Beamer package is the most widely used.
It should be noted that Latex produces the presentation as a PDF which can be viewed in fullscreen mode with some pdf reader (e.g. Okular , Evince or Adobe Reader). If you want to navigate in your presentation, you can use the almost invisible links in the bottom right corner without leaving the fullscreen mode.
- 1.1 Title page and author information
- 1.2.1 Sections and subsections
- 1.2.2 References (Beamer)
- 1.3.1 The Built-in solution
- 1.3.2 User-defined themes
- 1.3.3.1 Math Fonts
- 1.4 Frames Options
- 1.5 Hyperlink navigation
- 1.6 Animations
- 1.7 Handout mode
- 1.8 Columns
- 1.10 PDF options
- 1.11 Numbering slides
- 2 The Powerdot package
- 3.1 Beamer based themes/examples
- 3.2 References
The Beamer package [ edit | edit source ]
The beamer package is provided with most LaTeX distributions, but is also available from CTAN . If you use MikTeX, all you have to do is to include the beamer package and let LaTeX download all wanted packages automatically. The documentation explains the features in great detail. You can also have a look at the PracTex article Beamer by Example . [1]
The beamer package also loads many useful packages including xcolors, hyperref , etc. An introductory example is and its output is shown below.
In above code, the Beamer package is loaded by the \documentclass{beamer} command in the header. The usual header information may then be specified. In Beamer presentation a frame is an equivalent term for the slide (used in MS office). A frame is defined using the environment \begin{frame} ...... \end{frame} . The \frametitle{} command specifies the title for each slide. The frame title and subtitle can also be passed with the environment as following.
The usual environments ( itemize , enumerate , equation , etc.) may be used. Inside frames, you can use environments like block , theorem , proof , ... Also, \maketitle is possible to create the Title page, if title and author are set.
Title page and author information [ edit | edit source ]
The title page is the first page where one may insert following information
- Title and subtitle (optional)- Use \title and \subtitle commands, or use \title[short title (optional)]{Long title}{subtitle (optional)}
- Author(s) name- Use the \author{} command.
- Institute name- Use the \institute command. Note the use of \inst{1} and \inst{2} commands to associate the authors with their respective institutes.
- Date and Place of presentation- It can be inserted using the \date[short date(optional)]{Long date} command.
- Logo of Institute, etc.
It should be noted that the information within square braces, i.e., [ ] is optional.
It is important to include the \maketitle command in the document (as in above code) to create the title frame. The commands \maketitle and \titlepage are equivalent.
Table of Contents [ edit | edit source ]
The table of contents, with the current section highlighted, is displayed by:
This can be done automatically at the beginning of each section using the following code in the preamble:
Or for subsections:
Sections and subsections [ edit | edit source ]
As in all other LaTeX files, it is possible to structure the document using
Those commands have to be put before and between frames. They will modify the table of contents with the argument in brackets. The optional argument will be shown in the headline navigation on the slide, depending on the theme used. You can use \sectionpage macro to generate a separator slide for a declared section, for example
References (Beamer) [ edit | edit source ]
The following example shows a manually made references slide containing two entries:
As the reference list grows, the reference slide will divide into two slides and so on, through use of the allowframebreaks option. Individual items can be cited after adding an 'optional' label to the relevant bibitem stanza. The citation call is simply \cite . Beamer also supports limited customization of the way references are presented (see the manual).
The different types of referenced work are indicated with a little symbol (e.g. a book, an article, etc.). The symbol is set with the commands beamertemplatebookbibitems and beamertemplatearticlebibitems . It is also possible to use setbeamertemplate directly, like so
Other possible types of bibliography items, besides book and article , include e.g. online , triangle and text . It is also possible to have user defined bibliography items by including a graphic.
If one wants to have full references appear as foot notes, use the \footfullcite from the biblatex package. For example, it is possible to use
Themes [ edit | edit source ]
Beamer offers two ways for define the themes- 1) Use built-in themes, 2) Use user-defined themes.
The Built-in solution [ edit | edit source ]
Beamer has several built-in themes which can be used by specifying their "Name" and their "color" in the preamble. This Theme Matrix contains the various theme and color combinations included with Beamer . For more customizing options, have a look to the official documentation included in your distribution of beamer , particularly the part Change the way it looks .
The full list of themes is:
The full list of color themes is:
User-defined themes [ edit | edit source ]
First you can specify the outertheme , which defines the head and the footline of each slide.
Here is a list of all available outer and inner themes:
You can define the color of every element:
Colors can be defined as usual:
Block styles can also be defined:
You can also suppress the navigation symbols:
Fonts [ edit | edit source ]
You may also change the fonts for particular elements. If you wanted the title of the presentation as rendered by \begin { frame } [plain] \titlepage\end { frame } to occur in a serif font instead of the default sanserif, you would use:
You could take this a step further if you are using OpenType fonts with Xe(La)TeX and specify a serif font with increased size and oldstyle proportional alternate number glyphs:
Math Fonts [ edit | edit source ]
The default settings for beamer use a different set of math fonts than one would expect from creating a simple math article. One quick fix for this is to use
Frames Options [ edit | edit source ]
The options to a frame can be passed as following
Some of the useful options and their description is following.
- plain : This option removes all the formatting from your slide and thus give you extra space to accommodate a large figure or a large table.
- shrink : If you want to include lots of text on a slide use the shrink option.
- allowframebreaks : option will auto-create new frames if there is too much content to be displayed on one.
- fragile : Before using any verbatim environment (like listings ), you should pass the option fragile to the frame environment, as verbatim environments need to be typeset differently. Usually, the form fragile=singleslide is usable (for details see the manual). Note that the fragile option may not be used with \frame commands since it expects to encounter a \end { frame } , which should be alone on a single line.
Hyperlink navigation [ edit | edit source ]
Internal and external hyperlinks can be used in beamer to assist navigation. Clean looking buttons can also be added.
By default the beamer class adds navigation buttons in the bottom right corner. To remove them one can place
in the preamble.
Animations [ edit | edit source ]
It is possible to make figure and text to appear and disappear using the commands such as \pause, \uncover, \only and \itemize<a-b>. Text or figures after these commands will display after one of the following events (which may vary between PDF viewers): pressing space, return or page down on the keyboard, or using the mouse to scroll down or click the next slide button. A short explanation of each command is as follows and refer to chapter 9 of the Beamer manual for more details..
The \pause statement can be used as following to provide a break. I.e. the text after the command will be displayed on next event (button click/ key press/etc.)
The \uncover command specifies the appearance explicitly; \only works the same but without reserving space when hidden.
The \item command specifies appearance and disappearance of text by using <a-b> where a and b are the numbers of the events the item is to be displayed for (inclusive). For example:
A simpler approach for revealing one item per click is to use \begin { itemize } [<+->] .
In all these cases, pressing page up, scrolling up, or clicking the previous slide button in the navigation bar will backtrack through the sequence.
Handout mode [ edit | edit source ]
In beamer class, the default mode is presentation which makes the slides. However, you can work in a different mode that is called handout by setting this option when calling the class:
This mode is useful to see each slide only one time with all its stuff on it, making any \itemize [<+->] environments visible all at once (for instance, printable version). Nevertheless, this makes an issue when working with the only command, because its purpose is to have only some text or figures at a time and not all of them together.
If you want to solve this, you can add a statement to specify precisely the behavior when dealing with only commands in handout mode. Suppose you have a code like this
These pictures being completely different, you want them both in the handout, but they cannot be both on the same slide since they are large. The solution is to add the handout statement to have the following:
This will ensure the handout will make a slide for each picture.
Now imagine you still have your two pictures with the only statements, but the second one show the first one plus some other graphs and you don't need the first one to appear in the handout. You can thus precise the handout mode not to include some only commands by:
The command can also be used to hide frames, e.g.
or even, if you have written a frame that you don't want anymore but maybe you will need it later, you can write
and this will hide your slide in both modes.
A last word about the handout mode is about the notes. Actually, the full syntax for a frame is
and you can write your notes about a frame in the field note (many of them if needed). Using this, you can add an option
The first one is useful when you make a presentation to have only the notes you need, while the second one could be given to those who have followed your presentation or those who missed it, for them to have both the slides with what you said.
Columns [ edit | edit source ]
Columns environment divides a slide (vertically) into columns. Example
Blocks [ edit | edit source ]
Enclosing text in the block environment creates a distinct, headed block of text (a blank heading can be used). This allows to visually distinguish parts of a slide easily. There are three basic types of block. Their formatting depends on the theme being used.
PDF options [ edit | edit source ]
You can specify the default options of your PDF. [2]
Numbering slides [ edit | edit source ]
It is possible to number slides using this snippet:
However, this poses two problems for some presentation authors: the title slide is numbered as the first one, and the appendix or so-called "backup" (aka appendix, reserve) slides are included in the total count despite them not being intended to be public until a "hard" question is asked. [3] This is where two features come in:
- Ability to exclude certain frames from being numbered. For instance, this may be used at the title slide to avoid counting it:
- This stuff works around the problem of counting the backup frames:
The Powerdot package [ edit | edit source ]
The powerdot package is an alternative to beamer. It is available from CTAN . The documentation explains the features in great detail.
The powerdot package is loaded by calling the powerdot class:
The usual header information may then be specified.
Inside the usual document environment, multiple slide environments specify the content to be put on each slide.
Simple presentations [ edit | edit source ]
The beamer class is very powerful and provides lots of features. For a very simple presentation, a class based on article can be used.
Beamer based themes/examples [ edit | edit source ]
Some of the nice examples of the presentation are available below
- The Nord beamer theme
- Metropolis theme
- Kenton Hamaluik
- A list of theme maintained at github
References [ edit | edit source ]
- ↑ Andrew Mertz and William Slough, Beamer by Example
- ↑ Other possible values are defined in the hyperref manual
- ↑ Appendix Slides in Beamer: Controlling frame numbers
Links [ edit | edit source ]
- Wikipedia:Beamer (LaTeX)
- Beamer user guide (pdf) from CTAN
- The powerdot class (pdf) from CTAN
- A tutorial for creating presentations using beamer
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Team Wiki Examples
Now that you know what a wiki is, why it's useful, and how to create and design an effective internal wiki for your team, let's look at a few examples.
Some companies need only one wiki for the entire organization. Others create specialized wikis for certain departments, then nest those within a larger team wiki. No matter how you choose to organize your wiki, remember your goals, which might be:
- Centralize knowledge
- Increase transparency
- Improve communication
- Speed up workflow
- Create opportunities for self-paced learning
Keeping the last goal - learning and growth - in mind, we'll share some of the ways we use our own wiki at Slite. We'll look at two company wide examples, and two team-specific ones, and share a template for you to create your own version of each.
Company-wide example: Team Directory
One of the best ways to keep everyone on the same page during a stage of change or growth is to create a team directory. This way, newer team members can get to know more experienced ones, and vice versa. It's a fantastic icebreaker. The best part about creating a wiki for your people? They can get to know each other on their own time.
Tip: Take advantage of wiki features like comments and discussions to engage with colleagues' profiles, then follow up with a meeting to discuss their common interests.
Team Directory homepage
At Slite, we use a Smart Table as the front page of our team directory. Each row contains a link to the team member's intro document, and also contains vital stats such as their arrival date, languages spoken, field of knowledge, and preferred emoji. 🏄🛼🍕
Want to recreate this wiki page? Check out our free Team Directory Template-->
Wiki article.
To drill down further into our team wiki, each person contributes their own Intro document. They can format their intro however they like - but often these entries contain details about family life, working styles, hobbies and interests.
Want to replicate this wiki example in your team? Just download the template (illustrations of employees not included).
Free template: Create your team directory for free in Slite
Company-wide example: The Handbook
Getting to know the team is an important onboarding activity, but what about when a new employee needs to get down to business? The team handbook gets the job done. At Slite, our Handbook is required reading for all new team members, and is an essential step of onboarding. The Handbook contains guides to all of our general team processes, including:
- Remote work best practices
- Days off and vacation policies
- How we conduct meetings
- How we write and share documents in Slite (meta!)
- Our principles and values
...and much more.
Even though the Handbook is an onboarding tool, like any company wiki , it can be an ongoing resource for existing team members as well. They can use it to look up particular policies, or update processes that have been changed.
Want to start your own team handbook?
Free template: Create your employee handbook for free in Slite
Team-specific example: Brand Guidelines
Once you've written down general guidelines for new and existing team members, you can start to get more specific with your wiki content. This means creating channels and documents about particular work processes.
Our marketing team has a guidebook for our brand voice and image. It helps keep things consistent across all of our marketing campaigns - whether we are pushing changes to our homepage, publishing articles on our blog, launching special projects, or writing educational content like this guide!
Ready to share your marketing knowledge?
Free template: Create your brand guidelines for free in Slite
Team-specific example: Developer Starter Pack
Technical teams can benefit from wiki content, too. By writing down tech team processes, new engineers won't be so reliable on more experienced team members for historical knowledge. They also can refer to the wiki whenever they're unsure how to tackle a particular problem - whether there's an established solution, or if they have to come up with a new way of doing things. In the case of the latter, new solutions can be added to the wiki to grow knowledge.
Last but not least, an engineering team wiki establishes the habit of technical documentation, which in turn reduces redundancies and avoids common mistakes. Whenever work starts on a new feature or product - add it to the wiki, and see how your team learns.
Ready to start documenting your tech processes?
Free template: Free Technical Documentation Template in Slite
Wikis are for learning, and winning, as a team
Congrats! You've reached the end of this wiki guide. A quick recap: we've covered what a wiki is, internal and external wikis, the best wiki software tools, how to create a wiki, wiki information design, and finally, real-life wiki examples we use at Slite.
If there's one takeaway to leave with it's this: a wiki is a learning tool. Writing things down is the first step towards building the valuable knowledge that only your team has. That knowledge empowers employees inside your organization to take ownership of their ideas and projects, and bring great products into the world. Individual learnings translate into team wins - and that's cause for celebration.
If you're ready to start scaling learning in your team, try out Slite– it's free .
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Melanie Broder is on the Marketing team at Slite, where she works on all things content. She helps Slite users gain new skills through guides, templates, and videos. She lives in New York City, where she likes to read novels and run loops around Central Park.
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- 1.1 Alternative forms
- 1.2 Etymology
- 1.3 Pronunciation
- 1.4.1 Derived terms
- 1.4.2 Related terms
- 1.4.3 Translations
- 1.5 Anagrams
- 2.1.1 Descendants
- 3.1 Etymology
- 3.2.1 Declension
- 3.2.2 Related terms
- 3.3 Anagrams
English [ edit ]
Alternative forms [ edit ].
- præsentation ( archaic )
Etymology [ edit ]
From Old French presentation (French présentation ), from Latin praesentātiōnem , accusative singular of praesentātiō ( “ representation, exhibition ” ) . Morphologically present + -ation
Pronunciation [ edit ]
- ( US , UK , Canada ) IPA ( key ) : /ˌpɹɛzənˈteɪʃən/ , /ˌpɹizənˈteɪʃən/
- ( Hong Kong ) IPA ( key ) : /pɹisɛnˈteɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun [ edit ]
presentation ( countable and uncountable , plural presentations )
- 1594–1597 , Richard Hooker , J[ohn] S[penser] , editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, [ … ] , London: [ … ] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, OCLC 931154958 , (please specify the page) : Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires.
- A dramatic performance .
- An award given to someone on a special occasion .
- Money given as a wedding gift .
- A lecture or speech given in front of an audience .
- ( medicine ) The symptoms and other possible indications of disease , trauma , etc., that are exhibited by a patient who has sought, or has otherwise come to, the attention of a physician . The presentation of the thirty-four-year-old male in the emergency room was slight fever, dilated pupils, and marked disorientation.
- ( medicine ) The position of the foetus in the uterus at birth .
- ( mainly LGBT ) Gender presentation ; gender expression .
- ( fencing ) Offering one's blade for engagement by the opponent.
- ( mathematics ) The specification of a group by generators and relators .
- 1765–1769 , William Blackstone , Commentaries on the Laws of England , (please specify |book=I to IV) , Oxford, Oxfordshire: [ … ] Clarendon Press , OCLC 65350522 : If the bishop admits the patron's presentation , the clerk so admitted is next to be instituted by him.
- ( immunology ) The preparation of antigen fragments during the immune response .
Derived terms [ edit ]
- presentation box
- presentation logic
- presentation software
- self-presentation
Related terms [ edit ]
- presentational
- presentationally
Translations [ edit ]
Anagrams [ edit ].
- penetrations
Old French [ edit ]
presentation f ( oblique plural presentations , nominative singular presentation , nominative plural presentations )
- presentation ( act of presenting something or someone )
- presentation ( demonstration )
Descendants [ edit ]
- French: présentation
Swedish [ edit ]
From French présentation , from présenter + -ation , equivalent to presentera + -ation . Cognate with English presentation , German Präsentation , Norwegian Bokmål presentasjon , Norwegian Nynorsk presentasjon and Danish præsentation .
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Declension [ edit ]
- presentatör
- prestationen
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A presentation is a means of communication that can be adapted to various speaking situations, such as talking to a group, addressing a meeting or briefing a team. A presentation can also be used as a broad term that encompasses other 'speaking engagements' such as making a speech at a wedding, or getting a point across in a video conference.
Presentation is the process of presenting the content of a topic to an audience. Presentation software, such as OpenOffice.org Impress, Beamer, Apple Keynote or Microsoft PowerPoint, is often used to generate the presentation content.As a form of communication, a presentation is usually 10-30 minutes long, but can take longer in special cases.. Useful illustrations
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Consider who will be administering these wikis. 4. In your account the wikis you have created will be listed. 5. Step 3: From this page you can access any of those listed or scroll down to create a new wiki. 6. Step 4: Create a wiki thinking carefully about the URL you will create.
If you want to navigate in your presentation, you can use the almost invisible links in the bottom right corner without leaving the fullscreen mode. Contents 1 The Beamer package 1.1 Title page and author information 1.2 Table of Contents 1.2.1 Sections and subsections 1.2.2 References (Beamer) 1.3 Themes 1.3.1 The Built-in solution
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If there's one takeaway to leave with it's this: a wiki is a learning tool. Writing things down is the first step towards building the valuable knowledge that only your team has. That knowledge empowers employees inside your organization to take ownership of their ideas and projects, and bring great products into the world.
presentation presentation ( countable and uncountable, plural presentations ) The act of presenting, or something presented . A dramatic performance. An award given to someone on a special occasion. Money given as a wedding gift. A lecture or speech given in front of an audience.