How to give a good research talk

Take a look at this text about scientific presentations:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/giving-a-talk/giving-a-talk-html.html

They have nice tips for more technical presentations.

Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)

Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)

a good place to see how to use "advise" and "advice"...

scientific presentation!!!!!

Spatiotemporal classification
Hi everybody,
This is one of the shortest " highly rated" presentations I could find.
We can see some overloaded slides, no animation, no jokes :( ... isn't a good presentation!?!?
see you this afternoon...

Gapminder: the statistics dynamizer !

--> View the Demo

And here a demo for a Gapminder about CO2 emissions since 1820, great way to emphasize the terrible speed of fuel consumption and exhaust emissions!!

Free Slides to Teach Technical Presentations

Free Slides to Teach Technical Presentations:


I added some dates to the doodle so we can reschedule our last class in May. (There's a link from the writeboard... see the sidebar on the blog.)

See you on Thursday.... from 2 to 5 pm... in F601.

Looking forward to seeing your mini presentations...

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This is an interesting collection of teaching aids... have a look.

What do you think? Please leave a comment. james

"This web page presents a free collection of teaching slides for you, the instructor, to use when you discuss presentations in your engineering and science courses. These slides have been used with much success in presentation courses for engineers and scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and several universities including the University of Barcelona, the University of Oslo, and Virginia Tech."

Presenting With Visuals

Another presentation insisting on visuals instead of words. I'm convinced...

Presenting With Visuals (UPDATED)

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Dan Roam : Selling ideas with pictures

Dan Roam says that we really understand an idea when we are able to talk about it but also to draw it. Here is one of his famous presentation. I let you discover his particular style...

Healthcare Napkins All

View more presentations from Dan Roam.

How Do Others Ace Their Interviews?

How Do Others Ace Their Interviews?: "How Do Others Ace Their Interviews?"

An interview is a rather special sort of presentation! I thought this might interest you!


Looking forward to seeing you all this Thursday at 2 pm in F601.

Remember we said you would prepare one or two slides and the first few minutes of a presentation! See you there!

james

Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen | Video on TED.com

Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen | Video on TED.com

Some ideas to show data in a very effective way to illustrate strong messages.

Terri Sjodin: People Judge You on What?

I like the link she does between "sales" and "presentations"... I found her at the related videos of the Garr Reynolds' one... she has a lot of interesting videos ;)

(not so) effective powerpoint presentation techniques...

David Hanson: Robots that "show emotion" | Video on TED.com

David Hanson: Robots that "show emotion" | Video on TED.com:

"Robots that 'show emotion'" Can a robot understand gestures? human expressions? can it show emotion?

I thought this short 6 minute presentation might interest you! (Especially Anh!)

Leave a comment and tell me what you think!

all the best

james

ps... I'm going to make a mailing list for us... (one address that'll go to all the members) you'll get something from the mailman server saying that you've subscribed.

YouTube - StanfordUniversity's Channel

YouTube - StanfordUniversity's Channel:

"Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
From: StanfordUniversity | March 07, 2008 | 1,530,568 views"
(15 minutes long...)

Here he's telling three stories about his life, and not selling anything.
The "CC" button will give you the subtitles.

Let me know what you think... (add a comment).

YouTube - Authors@Google: Garr Reynolds

YouTube - Authors@Google: Garr Reynolds

for homework...
please watch at least part of this.... If it's at all boring... just stop! (minimum 10 minutes...)

Add a comment on the blog about what you think is relevant... what you liked... what surprised you. what you would like to use for your own presentations...

Also have a look at his presentationzen.com website and especially the "popular posts" section (on the right).

Jordi 'll post the minutes with the other things to do for our next class in a month!

james

YouTube - Apple Music Event 2001-The First Ever iPod Introduction

YouTube - Apple Music Event 2001-The First Ever iPod Introduction

good slides... but does he walk around too much?  he seems very relaxed... but I know that everything is really carefully rehearsed beforehand. Is this a mistake?