how to make a presentation ? wing-kai hon ( 韓永楷 ) national tsing hua university...
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How to Make a Presentation ?
Wing-Kai Hon (韓永楷 )National Tsing Hua University
Aug 04, 2008
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Overview
How to make a presentation
How to make a better presentation
(Focus of Today’s Talk)
How can we do even better ?
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Making a Presentation (The Usual Format) Title Overview Motivation Problem Definition Your Results Conclusion
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Making a Better Presentation
Big Question:
Why people come to your talk ?
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Making a Better Presentation
Possible Answers:A) You are Bill Gates
B) You look like a movie star
C) They are trapped
D) Better than not to come
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Making a Better Presentation
Know your audience Select your focus Help your audience understand Help your audience memorize
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Knowing Your Audience
Very important– Greatly affect what you should talk
For the same topic, very different if you are presenting in – Individual Meeting– Group Meeting– Conference
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Knowing Your Audience
Good Test– Most audience can fully understand
first 1/3 of your presentation– People with similar background can
fully understand up to the end
What should we do ?– Keep this in mind when making slides
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Selecting the Focus
Most important reason why your audience are here– Why don’t they just read your paper ??
Give them the juice – instead of the orange
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Selecting the Focus
What should we do ?– No need to show every lemma or result
– Spend more time on main results
(It helps to be precise and concise)
– Mention the key concepts
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Helping Audience To Understand
There are many ways First trick :
A picture worths millions of words !
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A slide used in 2007
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An extra slide used in 2008
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Helping Audience To Understand
Second trick :
Use More Pictures ^_^ !!
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Explaining 9-point circle
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Explaining 9-point circle
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Explaining 9-point circle
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Explaining 9-point circle
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Helping Audience To Understand
Third trick :
Examples and Counter-Examples
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Explaining a Complete Graph
A Complete Graph Not a Complete Graph
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Helping Audience To Understand
Fourth trick :
Put Related Things Together
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Explaining Perfect Number
Perfect Numbers:– 6 = 1 + 2 + 3– 28 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14
Amicable Pairs :– 220 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 71 + 142– 284 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 5 + 10 + 11 + 20 + 22 +
44 + 55 + 110
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Helping Audience To Memorize
Avoid Details
Summarize from time to time
Choose your notation cleverly
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How Can We Do Even Better ?
More Practice More Preparation Make your slides available
– Distribute handouts– Downloadable after the talk
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Can we do better ?
More Interaction Learn from others
– Slides by Charles Berndt [link] – An Interesting Talk by Don McMillan [link]– Dave Liu’s talk: The Beauty of Computing
Add a joke or two– if you are really good at it ^_^