Speaker's Tip: Don't tell the audience you aren't prepared

Re:Speaker's Tip: Don't tell the audience you aren't prepared by ivankirigin on Thursday October 29, 2009 @06:55PM (#911100)

"This slide has my favorite joke of the talk"

"Sorry this slide has a lot of text on it, I usually try to avoid it"

Reading slides is also idiotic.

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Re:Speaker's Tip: Don't tell the audience you aren't prepared by pbhjpbhj on Thursday October 29, 2009 @08:35PM (#911254)

Some people absorb info better when they view it, others when they hear it. Consider it pre-prepared closed captions and then perhaps it's OK?

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Re:Speaker's Tip: Don't tell the audience you aren't prepared by ugh on Thursday October 29, 2009 @10:22PM (#911396)

Then why talk? Reading is faster than listening. And this alone will get your audience horribly out of sync with you.

Use slides as a support structure, don’t duplicate what you are seeing. And if you really want to make all those happy that prefer reading to listening don’t just dump your uncommented slides on them afterwards.

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