If you wanted to practice, then you could get a 30 day trial of mywebinar (or whatever it is called) and then invite us to watch and provide feedback at the end?
Rob On Dec 30, 9:27 am, Joe Sondow <[email protected]> wrote: > I've seen time-constrained presenters use their iphone clock's > countdown program on a desk so they have a timer to glance at while > they talk. If the slides are numbered you can probably see how well > you're doing on time as you move through them. If good questions eat > up time, be willing to skip a few unimportant slides in the middle of > the talk. It's better than skipping all the slides at the end. > > Since you're taking your presentation pretty seriously, you could > practice what you'll say for 4 or 5 slides and time yourself. This > should give you a ballpark figure of how long it takes you to discuss > one of your own slides. > > Also check out Slideshare to get a feel for interesting slide > decks.http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?lang=en&q=java&sort=views > > On Dec 29, 11:01 pm, Tony Childs <[email protected]> wrote:> Great advice. > Thanks. Another question occurred to me today. Is there a > > good method (aside from practice) to target a certain timeframe in which to > > fit a presentation? My intuition tells me that this might not lend itself > > to generalization since there are plenty of factors that might affect it > > (e.g. topic complexity, speaker's tempo, presence of demos, etc). However, > > I'd be interested if anyone has any rules of thumb that you use to turn X > > amount of content (chapters, sections, etc) into a presentation of Y > > minutes. > > > Thanks again for the advice so far. > > > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Joe Sondow <[email protected]> wrote: > > > One way to learn how to do technical talks is to watch people do them > > > and try to emulate the parts you like. Seeing them live at meetups is > > > preferable. However if you're in a hurry there are many tech talks > > > with slides posted on youtube and other sites, including the 5-minute > > > lightning talks of the Java Posse Roundup at > > >http://www.youtube.com/javaposse > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "The Java Posse" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups > > > .com> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
