Whatever you do—if you opt for wordy, boring slides—please do not do the one slide a minute job. My slides are mainly figures and illustrations. The talk is about psychophysical measurement of perceived head direction and eye-gaze in peripheral vision. A good rule of thumb is 1 minute per slide. Tangentially, I agree with Daloon that text on slides for the most part is tedious. There is nothing worse than going to a presentation to watch a speaker read the entire talk off of her slides.
One other thing. Practice, practice, practice until you can do the talk in your sleep. In particular, practice the intro hardest part to get through and most speakers are most nervous at the start and the transitions between slides. So what? A methods slide picture of your data gathering technique. A data source slide pictures of the subjects—oops, probably not—IRB problems. And then, if you have any data collected, say via video, you could show some examples of what you are talking about.
A flow chart of the mental calculation process, that you will spend a lot of time talking about, perhaps with illustrations of various steps in the process. Haha, yeah, there are so many journal clubs and presentation days… they occur at noon every day of the week and Thursday is two half-hour presentations. GOS and daloon. I too could attend numerous seminars weekly at least 10, if I so chose.
These days, I only go to 4—5, in order to limit my time spent sitting on my ass. What I often find appalling is when I go to a seminar by a famous scientist like a NAS member or Nobel laureate , and the talk stinks. Actually, the reason I was doing it was to count slides, and I never did that. Or is that sarcasm? I wish I could hear your voice saying that. Sarcasm… Sometimes the talks are so bad , it seems as if the speaker was trying to make it bad.
The fewer, the better. Plan your talk, and then use the slides to show graphic and visual data that supports your points. In particular, repeating your points in text on the slides is inane. Sure, it gives you something to do click to the next slide , but it loses your audience, because they read the slide faster than you can, and then wait impatiently for the next one.
Geez, everyone. I know how to make a PowerPoint presentation! I do not overcrowd my slides with text, I do not read off my slides, I use mostly visual aids, etc.! Clearly, regardless of how well you make a presentation, the number of slides will vary dependent upon whether you are giving a minute overview of a research proposal or a 3-hour job talk!!
Why is it interesting to you? What is the background? What experiments led to this paper? This is your opportunity to explain why you picked the paper, and why the audience should be interested too. Then, I just use the figures from the paper occasionally interspersed with supplementary figures or other info such as diagrams depicting complicated or new techniques broken up into manageable chunks. There are numerous queries about how many slides for 45 minutes or 1 hour long presentation; these enquirers need to understand certain points to clarify their doubts.
This is a vital requirement. It is obviously according to the importance of your topic that the time frame is allotted, hence it is also crucial that you carry out an in depth research to be able to select the appropriate sub topics that will be highlighted in the presentation. Your demonstration might require huge contents or a few words might suffice for the whole scenario.
Here your judiciousness comes at play. It is advisable not to get confused with the time length and end up stuffing your presentation with unnecessary content. Do not judge without practicing; if you have allotted 2 minutes to every slide then make sure that the time is utilized properly. The time can vary according to the points covered in the slide. Dedicate more of the time given to you to the content that matters most. This approach should allow you to gauge just how many slides you need to bring in.
Whatever number you go for, remember that your slides should only be seen as the tools you need to get your message across. Rely on yourself to get your message out there. Your tone, body-language, and passion are what truly can make or break your presentation.
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Do I need to tell you how hugely successful she was a result of that approach? Only bring the slides that express the value of your content. Nothing more, nothing less.
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