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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (3 children)

My best presentation at university was during a small seminar. It was a 45min talk about 3 papers and how they relate to each other. I procrastinate a lot, so I didn't really do anything besides reading those papers until the day before my presentation. That day, a friend called for a spontaneous barbecue, so I had just an odd hour to actually prepare slides. I managed 8 slides in total, the rest I just impromptu recalled from memory. People liked it and it was the least effort I put in any talk I held at university.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

reading those papers

Woah there Mr. Overachiever, you're making the rest of us look lazy...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, that's the right way to do it if you really know your stuff.

The slides are there as a visual aid or backdrop. The "presenter notes" is where all your bulleted items and prompts for recollection go.

Also, and this is where a lot of people get it wrong, the slide deck is NOT a useful document for distribution. It is specific to both the subject matter and speaker; it's analogous to sheet music. A video of the presentation (e.g. TED) is far more useful as we're really talking about a performance. At worst, there should be "references" page in some appendix, with hyperlinks to actual media that folks can digest on their own time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The slides in the presentation. Old people term

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

i see, thank you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

More like an industry colloquialism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The best presentations are about topics you know well enough to discuss at length, and aren't constrained by paragraphs of points you need to get through. And a presentation is the best way to explain a graph or diagram.