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How to Make a Presentation ?

How to Make a Presentation ?. Wing-Kai Hon ( 韓永楷 ) National Tsing Hua University wkhon@cs.nthu.edu.tw Aug 04, 2008. Overview. How to make a presentation How to make a better presentation (Focus of Today ’ s Talk) How can we do even better ?. Making a Presentation (The Usual Format).

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How to Make a Presentation ?

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  1. How to Make a Presentation ? Wing-Kai Hon (韓永楷) National Tsing Hua University wkhon@cs.nthu.edu.tw Aug 04, 2008

  2. Overview • How to make a presentation • How to make a better presentation (Focus of Today’s Talk) • How can we do even better ?

  3. Making a Presentation (The Usual Format) • Title • Overview • Motivation • Problem Definition • Your Results • Conclusion

  4. Making a Better Presentation • Big Question: Why people come to your talk ?

  5. Making a Better Presentation Possible Answers: • You are Bill Gates • You look like a movie star • They are trapped • Better than not to come

  6. Making a Better Presentation • Know your audience • Select your focus • Help your audience understand • Help your audience memorize

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. Helping Audience To Understand • There are many ways • First trick : A picture worths millions of words !

  12. A slide used in 2007

  13. An extra slide used in 2008

  14. Helping Audience To Understand • Second trick : Use More Pictures ^_^ !!

  15. Explaining 9-point circle

  16. Explaining 9-point circle

  17. Explaining 9-point circle

  18. Explaining 9-point circle

  19. Helping Audience To Understand • Third trick : Examples and Counter-Examples

  20. Explaining a Complete Graph A Complete Graph Not a Complete Graph

  21. Helping Audience To Understand • Fourth trick : Put Related Things Together

  22. 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

  23. Helping Audience To Memorize • Avoid Details • Summarize from time to time • Choose your notation cleverly

  24. How Can We Do Even Better ? • More Practice • More Preparation • Make your slides available • Distribute handouts • Downloadable after the talk

  25. 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 ^_^

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