Presentation techniques

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Presentation techniques

Master 2

UPMC Sorbonne Universités

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Why this class?

• Presentation is the 3^rd step of your work

• What are the first two?

–  1: The work itself

–  2: Convincing the reviewers

• Possible “publicity” of your work

–  Get feedback before submission

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GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS

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Types of presentations

• Support type

–  Oral presentation

–  Poster presentation

• Presence type

–  In front of public

–  Through video conference

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Adapt your speech

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Adapt your speech

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Who is interested in your work?

• At best, a few people in the audience

• Who has the necessary background?

–  You…

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Give a good impression

• You should master your subject

–  Although it is not always possible…

• If you don’t, people will notice

• Prepare your material before

–  Start your computer beforehand

–  Battery charge

–  Do you have a MAC?

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Eye contact

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• Video…

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But…

• The previous guy is a specialist

• What about us?

• At least

–  Avoid staring at the slides

–  Try to move a bit (when possible)

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Your audience has limited capacity

• Concentration decreases with time

–  1 hour à 1∼2 ideas

–  2 hours à 0.5 idea

• Further information after the talk

–  People really interested show up

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Nice example

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Talks != Papers

• In the talk, only the most important points

–  Details are in the paper

• Forget equations whenever possible

• Look at the following two slides

–  Personal experience

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Catch the attention

• Catch the attention of your public

• Figures help a lot

–  Of course, if well done…

• The first minute is crucial

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Opening slide

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But…

• We are talking about technical presentations

• Too much innovation might kill

• Still, we can do some tricks J

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Check and recheck!

• Verify typos end other mistakes

• Mistekes are vary, vary bed for your work

–  In both papers and slides

• Suggestion

–  Be careful from the beginning

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Control your voice

• Neither too

loud

^{nor too}^quiet

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Let people see your slides

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Strange situation

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Further recommendations

• Going back and forward

• Excuse-me, but I did not prepare well…

• If you are nervous, forget the pen

• Water for longer presentations

• Cell phone

• Don’t make jokes if you don’t know how to

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Let’s do it together

• Some exercises… help me filling the list

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Some fun

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• Video…

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PREPARING THE SLIDES

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Font style

• Calibri

• Arial

• Century Gothic

• Comic Sans MS

• Tahoma

• Brush script

• Courier New

• Edwardian Script

• Times New Roman

• Garamond

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Please use “Sans Serif” style

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•  72 points

•  48 points

• 32 points

•  20 points

•  16 points

•  12 points

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10/20/30 rule

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• Video…

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Color scheme

• Try to read this

• Or this

• And this one

• I am sure you are lost here

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Carnaval background

• Do you like this one?

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Avoid unnecessary stuff

• I am the main message of the slide

–  But can you see me?

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Introduc)on Preparing slides Saving slides Giving a talk Oral techniques Some discussion Conclusion

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To slide or not to slide?

• Slide-less presentation?

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EXERCISE

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Training

• Discuss about final presentations

• Observe

–  Slides

–  Talk

• We will discuss later

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TOOLS TO PREPARE SLIDES

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MS Powerpoint

• The one I am using…

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Latex

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Openoffice

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Keynote

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The old style…

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How to choose your tool

• It depends on

–  Computer, OS, content

• Example

–  Equations

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INVITED SPEAKER

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• Slides

• Adaptation to public

• Time management

• Speaker’s presence

• Other comments

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POSTERS

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Are posters important?

• Yes!

• Opportunities

–  Conferences (ongoing work or not)

–  Summarize results in your lab

–  Disseminate a project’s idea

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Effective poster

• Focused

–  A single message

• Graphic

–  Graphs/images tell the story, not text

• Ordered

–  Sequence should be obvious

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Some discussion

• I brought some posters for discussion…

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PAPERS

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Papers???

• Yes, papers have contents but also a style

• Reviewers have dozens of papers to read

–  Good presentation is fundamental

• Besides the contents of course

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Let’s discuss

• A few minutes to compare two papers

–  Focus only on the presentation

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HOMEWORK

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2 homeworks

• Fortunately, the final project J

• Homework 1: Slides

–  https://tibre.lip6.fr/hotcrp/metho-5/

• Homework 2: Paper

–  https://tibre.lip6.fr/hotcrp/metho-pro

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Deadline

• Paper and slides

Monday, October 28, 5 p.m.

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