From: "Chris Shiflett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 3) Typing Code: Don't type code during your presentation. > > Why not? From my experience, people appreciate live demonstrations of the > techniques you're discussing.
Yeah, live demos are great, but I don't want to sit there and watch you type all of your PHP code. Have it already typed and just load it, explain it, and run it. Any time spent typing on the computer is going to be dead time to the audience, too, and draw your attention away from them. > > 8) Graphics and Transitions: This one will probably raise some > > arguments, but I don't see much a need for pretty graphics and > > transitions. > > Count me as arguing. :-) > > Pictures are good. Better are pictures that illustrate whatever it is you > are discussing. If you have slide after slide of bulleted lists, you're > talk is going to be boring. I hate boring talks. Maybe this is where my experience in doing briefings to military personnel vs. doing presentations to civilians would hurt me. :) If I'm boring and people fall asleep, I can make them do push-ups or jumping-jacks in the back of the room. heh... > I think a better resource than these few emails is Conference Presentation > Judo, a talk given by Mark Jason Dominus: > > http://perl.plover.com/yak/presentation/samples/slide001.html Awesome link w/great info. He agrees with you on the pictures, "even if they are pointless" he says. :) Although I would like to hear from other presenters and attendees on what they think with specific regards to PHP/programming presentations. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
