Download Principles of Effective Presentations: A 10-Minute Talk - Prof. Prasun Dewan and more Assignments Computer Science in PDF only on Docsity! Comp 911/790-063, Fall 2008 10 Minute Talk on Presentation Rules Date Assigned: Thu Aug 28, 2008 Talk Completion Date: Thu Sep 4, 2008 Paper Completion Date: Tue Sep 16, 2008 Objectives: Understand and analyze principles of giving talks advocated by others. Give and defend your own point of view on giving talks. Follow rules in your own talk. Learn to adapt your talk to previous ones without changing slides. Give a ten-minute talk that identifies, defends, and illustrates principles you feel are most important in composing a presentation. You should focus on the nature of the presentation – the slides and the script – rather than issues of delivery such as practice and enthusiasm. You can identify the principles on your own or reproduce those collected from others such as the talks and papers linked from the web site and presented in class. In either case, for each principle, give a concrete example where it is not followed and one in which it is. Ideally both examples should be trying to convey the same information. Use these examples to give advantages/disadvantages of following the principle. These examples can come from anywhere. In particular, they can be slides presented in class, talks about talks you study, your own talks, talks presented by fellow students, and talks of faculty candidates ( https://www.cs.unc.edu/Admin/Faculty/Recruiting/candidates/presentations/) You will need a departmental account to access the faculty talks. Do not directly borrow examples used by existing material to illustrate the principles. Try to follow the principles, if appropriate, in composing the presentation. You can be expected to identify more or less the same set of principles, though the time constraint may result in your choosing different subsets of the principles we study in class. The main challenge in this assignment is identifying the examples and following the principles. Cop the presentation file to the directory: \\dewan-cs\deposit\911\Principles, if you have network access to departmental Windows machines. If you don’t have access to windows, mail me the file. Since we will be recording your presentation, you will need to open the presentation on the SN 115 computer and thus cannot use your laptop. As with the 5-minute presentation, I will let you finish your prepared talk. Aim for a ten minute presentation – you should have enough material to fill the full ten minutes and not so much that you go more than a couple of minutes over. We should take a couple of class periods to finish all the talks; however, be prepared to give the talk on the first day. In case you don’t present the first day, do not change the slides. However, do try and refer to the previous talks. Sometimes, all talks in a day/session are put on one computer at the start of the day/session. So this mimics a common situation in the real world. More important, it limits you to creating a single rather than multiple iterations of the talk. Immediately, after you submit the talk, you will be given a new assignment. After the submission, you should use the time to work on that assignment rather than this one.
