More On Presentations
About a week or so ago, I posted an entry AECT Presentation Quality responding to a few of my colleagues about creating better conference presentations. Since that time I came across this blog entry, which may provide some additional guidance:
Enjoy...Strategies for Avoiding Paper Readers at a Conference
By Platypus Matt on soylent green is peopleThis paper reading at conferences has got to stop. Don't read your paper at a conference. The next time you think, "Oh, I'll just bring my paper and read it at the conference," remember: Platypus Matt told you not to do it.
There are few things I fear more at a conference than getting stuck in a stuffy conference room and forced to endure one hour and fifteen minutes of paper reading delivered at a monotone (the word from which "monotonous" is derived--look it up). Yes, I know that this is entirely my fault. I could get up and leave, mumbling something about "dagnabbit paper readers" under my breath as I vacate the premise like Sonic the Hedgehog. I always end up sitting in the front, right in front of the, er, "speakers," and would feel guiltier than OJ just standing up and walking out. You see, I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, even as my consciousness is sucked from my brain with a loud "spllggging" sound.
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