Here at the NCWSS Convention Communications Symposium we’re onto the next topic which is on “Presenting Research to a Scientific Audience.” She says we’ve got about 12 minutes to make the presentation so she’s going over how we structure our short presentation including a short introduction, describe our methodology and the results or findings.

Our presenter is Karen Renner, Michigan State University (left).

Karen is using a very cool technology called TurningPoint.

Basically we all get “clickers” and we can answer questions she poses and our responses are instantly tabulated and shown graphically and wirelessly.

We can see if we get the right answer and if not, what percentage got it wrong. I have got to get me one of these gadgets for my presentations! I can think of some very interesting questions to pose during my talks.

BTW. You can find Karen’s talk and our next one by Christy Sprague on their website.