KrazovI am asking myself now, why hadn't I written a script for any presentation before? It's brilliant (the idea; the script remains to be seen, from the audience reactions). We learn something new every day.
I've been asked to give a presentation on giving presentations, very meta.
ADHDeanASL@Krazov About 50% of the presentations I interpret are given by people who need to attend presentations about how to give presentations.
That number might be a little conservative.
@adhdeanasl We had 7 teams in total, and the slides of all the other teams were more or less walls of text.
@adhdeanasl I thought it was 101, but at least when I was in school, they didn't teach us that. So, maybe in other places they didn't either.
@Krazov What I’ve learned over the course of my career as an interpreter:
1. All people who engage in public speaking should have to take at least one public speaking course
2. All American Sign Language interpreters should have to take at least one acting class
@adhdeanasl At some point in my life, I had a chance to run a monthly tech talk in one company I worked for, and I decided to use it as my learning ground. I reckoned that the audience would be my colleagues, so it should have been less stressful. I ended up doing this for 2 years. Baptism by fire, I guess.
Derek Reilly@Krazov can you share your deck template
@derekreilly Of a slide? White background, black text, and the text is only the topic currently spoken about. Sometimes an illustration, but only if relevant.
@Krazov hah perfect
@derekreilly Sometimes, a company gives you a template in their colours, and if they insist, I can respect that. But that is as far as I can go.
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Ken Butler@Krazov last night, I watched a TED talk about giving talks.
(Actually, I lie. I read the transcript. I don't know what this implies.)
@Krazov are we heading towards "this presentation could have been an email"?
@nxskok Many of them should be, and that's why it's good to give any presentation a stand-up flow; an audience amused is an audience sold on the idea; which should be the reason to have presentations in the first place: to make it an experience. Then no one brings up the email notion.
@Krazov one of the things we do in Toastmasters is to have stories (eg. personal stories) in our speeches, on the basis that the brain is wired to respond to stories better than a raft of facts and figures. This doesn't always work in a business context, but it is a similar principle.
@nxskok I've explored the power of stories for a while now, and even often try to write the code in an imperative paradigm, because it lands better with other devs. I'm taking a note on that now, to use it for my presentation on presenting presentations when times come for it; thanks for the idea. Myself, I try to make funny remarks at least twice, and in the beginning, to relax the audience a little. Dad jokes are great because they're safe, even in a business setting.