Thanks everyone for the advice. I got the teaching gig. I learned some lessons from the interview/presentation. Unlike an in-person lecture/talk, online trainings require a higher level of interactivity to keep participants interested. This is complicated when you can't see anyone and people don't respond to questions. This can be improved by using the web conference software to also allow people to respond via text. If that doesn't work you can also randomly query specific participants.
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Rob Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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%[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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > >--
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