{"id":37197,"date":"2016-01-12T15:22:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T19:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=37197"},"modified":"2016-01-12T15:22:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T19:22:25","slug":"workshop-to-help-grad-students-prepare-for-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/01\/workshop-to-help-grad-students-prepare-for-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop to help grad students prepare for presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Learn strategies to relax and prepare your mind and body for a presentation, connect your voice with gestures, hook your audience with a compelling \u2018opener\u2019 and rehearse techniques to minimize performance anxiety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Those are a few of the skills being honed at an upcoming session aimed at graduate students looking to enhance their presentation skills or<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0those participating in any knowledge translation communication challenge (the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/graduate-studies\/current-students\/conferences-events\/3mt\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">3MT\u00ae competition<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vitae.brockubeta.ca\/sshrc-storytellers-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">SSHRC Storytellers<\/span><\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca\/scienceaction\/index_eng.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">Science, Action!)<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s3\">.<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Performing the Text:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Be the Storyteller of Your Research will be held Saturday, Jan. 16 from 9 a.m. to noon in Cairns 207.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">For information, contact\u00a0<a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/822AD36E-0763-4B00-A3A1-8021D6EB0400\/kperry@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s4\">Karin Perry,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Graduate Coordinator, Development &amp; Training\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/graduate-studies\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s4\">(Faculty of Graduate Studies)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">To register, visit the VITAE website<span class=\"s4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vitae.brockubeta.ca\/performing-the-text-2016-registration\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Graduate students who participate in the\u00a03MT\u00ae\u00a0and MNK conference events will earn credit toward a Vitae Essential Skills certificate awarded by the Dean of Graduate Studies. \u00a0For details about the certificate please visit\u00a0<span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vitae.brockubeta.ca\/1181-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The session facilitator is\u00a0Julia Course,\u00a0a graduate of Brock University, holding an honours B.A. from the Department of Dramatic Arts and a minor in English Language and Literature. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Awarded a SSHRC grant in 2006, she continued her studies at The School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. Under the supervision of renowned playwright Judith Thompson, Course completed her M.A. in dramatic literature and theory. Course is also a graduate of the acting program at the National Theatre School of Canada, and has been an ensemble member of the acting company at the Shaw Festival in Niagara on the Lake since 2010. As a professional actor with a background in academia, Julia is passionate about the &#8220;storytelling&#8221; of research &#8211; how students can borrow from the toolbox of an actor to captivate an audience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn strategies to relax and prepare your mind and body for a presentation, connect your voice with gestures, hook your audience with a compelling \u2018opener\u2019 and rehearse techniques to minimize performance anxiety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,55],"tags":[3335,3699,3698,3697],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37199,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37197\/revisions\/37199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}