2 Nov 2004
CS 5244: New Media for the DL
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Some presentation guidelines
nIntroduction:
¡Involve your audience immediately and throughout the presentation
¡(1) Tell them what you're going to say, (2) say it, & (3) tell them what you said
nQuestions:
¡Carefully listen to questions before answering
¡Acknowledge the validity of an appropriate question
¡Don't answer a question that you don't know
nVisual aids:
¡Use 1 figure per minute at most, & 1 figure per 2 minutes at best
¡Make every figure interesting
¡Simplify your figures, and then make them simpler.
¡Explain your figures in detail (including defining axes)
¡Use figures as a memory (numbers & words) crutch
¡Don't read from text figures (face audience & paraphrase).
¡Use a CONCLUSION or SUMMARY figure to show you're done
- From Russ Flegal’s
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