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Preparing and Delivering a Technical Presentation

Preparing and Delivering a Technical Presentation. Aditya Mathur ISTD Feb 7, 2014. Click here for a source for this presentation. Pur pose. Share my thoughts on: How to prepar e a technical presentation How to deliver a prepared presentation. Prepare!.

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Preparing and Delivering a Technical Presentation

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  1. Preparing and Delivering a Technical Presentation Aditya Mathur ISTD Feb 7, 2014 Click here for a source for this presentation

  2. Purpose Share my thoughts on: How to prepare a technical presentation How to deliver a prepared presentation

  3. Prepare!

  4. KISS: A Fundamental principle Keep It Simple Stupid!

  5. Who is your audience? Purpose of your presentation? What would you like to achieve? Key questions

  6. Structure your presentation Practice (rehearse) And prepare “It takes a lot of preparation to deliver an impromptu speech!”.. Mark Twain

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  8. Sure. May I use some text?

  9. A slide: Or this?

  10. Sure. Less than 18pt: Unacceptable. 20pt or more: Preferred Legible? But not ugly!

  11. Bullet blue • Bullet green • Bullet small • Bullet large • Bullet imported • Bullet exported • Bullet unused • Bullet used • Bullet banned • Bullet wet • Bullet iron • Bullet steel • Bullet rubber • Bullet hard rubber • Bullet soft • Bullet hard I love bullets!

  12. Bullet red • Bullet green • Bullet blue I love bullets: but should I control my urge!

  13. There is a mistak. But is it minr? Oops!

  14. Mathematics!! Hey…audience will love you for your genius! Oh Yeah!

  15. Go slowly over each equation. Explain all terms and the purpose of the equation. Be aware that a large portion of the audience might go off to sleep while you explain the math. Mathematics: If you must Even the mathematicians amongst the audience might sleep or go out to lighten themselves!. Audience might tolerate you.

  16. Deliver

  17. Where to look?

  18. Speak (too) softly?

  19. Or (too) loudly?

  20. Or just right?

  21. Language?

  22. What am I doing? Synchronize. Engage the audience

  23. Time for questions?

  24. What did we cover? Summary Lessons

  25. Did we use someone’s work? References Are there closely related publications?

  26. Too little time to present?

  27. Want to laugh and learn to make “terrible” power point presentations? Click here. Thank you!

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