Distillation of notes Advice on Presentations. Keep it short to give Tomislav Time.
Framing:
- Lectures are not talks (so what you’ve seen hasn’t doesn’t apply)
- Talk vary – and you’ll get lots of varying advice.
- I may not be great at it – which is why I had to think about it
The Key Points:
- It takes Effort
- Your mileage will vary
- Respect the Audience
- Your materials are not your talk
- Performance Art / Your voice is an instrument
- Be Yourself and Have Fun
- Learn from others (good and bad)
- Organize and structure for the audience
- Know your goals
- Use fewer words
- Onion model – and reconnect points
- Talk to your audience not your slides
- A recording of a presentation is not a presentation
- Job Talks are different
Takes Effort (#1)
- Need to try to be a good speaker (Schewchuck)
- Need to put effort into preparing and planning a talk
- Looking “natural” often requires a lot of prep
- Over-rehearsal is possible
- Everyone has different issues
- No simple rules
Your Mileage Will Vary
- You – style, ability, experience
- non-native speaker, …
- Goals
- Venue
- Audience
- Material (e.g. dense math is different than …)
- The field
- humanities (reading) vs. …
Respect Your Audience
Talk to them at the right level – and
Be Yourself and Have Fun
Your enthusiasm is critical.
