{"id":360,"date":"2008-05-30T03:55:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T08:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/360"},"modified":"2008-05-30T03:55:06","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T08:55:06","slug":"dont-sleep-through-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/360","title":{"rendered":"Don&#039;t Sleep Through This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gordonwatts.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/28\/giving-a-good-talk\/\">Giving a Good Talk<\/a> over at Life as a Physicist.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unfortunately (or fortunately) there is a lot more to giving a good talk than just a good deck of slides. I think the number one thing for me is \u201ctell a story.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some good tips to check out.  A couple to add:<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t make your graphs too complicated and the admonition of death-before-yellow-on-white applies here as well.  Also remember that (red\/green) color blindness is not all that uncommon, so \u2014 especially if you&#8217;ve used red and\/or green \u2014 <em>point out which line you&#8217;re discussing<\/em>, rather than just saying &#8220;the red line represents X&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard a common critique that the presentation slides should be cartoonish, but I rarely find them funny, so I use a different description \u2014 simplify.  The text should be the highlights, not a transcript.  If you&#8217;ve followed the advice about fonts (I say minimum size ~18), you won&#8217;t be able to fit everything you say on the slides, anyway.  You shouldn&#8217;t be speeding along any faster than about one slide per minute.  And remember to breathe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving a Good Talk over at Life as a Physicist. Unfortunately (or fortunately) there is a lot more to giving a good talk than just a good deck of slides. I think the number one thing for me is \u201ctell &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/360\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}