practice talk

[gusl]

My practice talk went so-so. "Only" 4 people came. I got lots of good feedback.

My talk needed more rhetorical structure (letting audience know what to expect), better motivation, and the scope of our contribution wasn't clear enough.

I find it hard to coordinate the content of the slides with the spoken part without either:
* sounding like I'm just reading the slides, or
* deviating from the slides and presenting information at the wrong time

Are my slides too good?

Comments

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

Were you at the practice talk? which one?

Surely you're not suggesting drawing argument maps while presenting the talk??

Are you www.cs.brown.edu/~casey ?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, I was at the practice talk. Indeed, I am suggesting that you include slides with argument maps. Drawing them on the board during the talk would be too time consuming. ~Casey