Transcript How to Make a Presentation ?

How to Make a
Presentation ?
Wing-Kai Hon (韓永楷)
National Tsing Hua University
[email protected]
Aug 04, 2008
Overview
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How to make a presentation
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How to make a better presentation
(Focus of Today’s Talk)
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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
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Big Question:
Why people come to your talk ?
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Making a Better Presentation
Possible Answers:
A)
B)
C)
D)
You are Bill Gates
You look like a movie star
They are trapped
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
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Very important
– Greatly affect what you should talk
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For the same topic, very different if you
are presenting in
– Individual Meeting
– Group Meeting
– Conference
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Knowing Your Audience
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Good Test
– Most audience can fully understand
first 1/3 of your presentation
– People with similar background can
fully understand up to the end
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What should we do ?
– Keep this in mind when making slides
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Selecting the Focus
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Most important reason why your
audience are here
– Why don’t they just read your paper ??
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Give them the juice
– instead of the orange
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Selecting the Focus
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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 :
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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
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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
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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
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Fourth trick :
Put Related Things Together
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Explaining Perfect Number
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Perfect Numbers:
–6=1+2+3
– 28 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14
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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
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Avoid Details
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Summarize from time to time
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Choose your notation cleverly
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How Can We Do Even Better ?
More Practice
 More Preparation
 Make your slides available
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– Distribute handouts
– Downloadable after the talk
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Can we do better ?
More Interaction
 Learn from others
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– Slides by Charles Berndt [link]
– An Interesting Talk by Don McMillan [link]
– Dave Liu’s talk: The Beauty of Computing
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Add a joke or two
– if you are really good at it ^_^
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