From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/17593 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Anders Melchiorsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: The Talk Date: 05 Oct 1998 16:29:13 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <199810041835.OAA06084@ryerson.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035156267 1721 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:24:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:24:27 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA14945 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 10:31:31 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAF24305; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 09:01:30 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 05 Oct 1998 09:30:16 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA18481 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 09:30:01 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from dark.x.dtu.dk (dark.x.dtu.dk [130.225.92.246]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA14909 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 10:29:50 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 24550 invoked from network); 5 Oct 1998 14:29:46 -0000 Original-Received: from carlsberg.kampsax.dtu.dk (192.38.212.2) by dark.x.dtu.dk with SMTP; 5 Oct 1998 14:29:46 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 27904 invoked from network); 5 Oct 1998 14:29:04 -0000 Original-Received: from k0817.kampsax.dtu.dk (and@192.38.215.249) by carlsberg.kampsax.dtu.dk with SMTP; 5 Oct 1998 14:29:04 -0000 Original-Received: (from and@localhost) by k0817.kampsax.dtu.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA03354; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 16:29:13 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: luis fernandes's message of "Sun, 4 Oct 1998 14:35:01 -0400" Original-Lines: 26 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.43/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17593 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17593 luis fernandes writes: > The rule of thumb I use for my presentations is 1 overhead per minute > of talking. I find that having overheads or other multi-media aids You can easily spend two to three minutes per overhead; switching them around all the time can disturb the audience. The speaking should not just be reading the slides aloud, they usually just contain headlines. > makes for less boring talks than just talking straight. Note that my > audience has usually been 2nd to 4th year electrical engineering > students with short attention spans. Hmmm... I am a 3rd year engineering student. :-). My above suggestions were taught to me by the teachers here. > I have a LaTeX template for overhead slides I dug out of the CTAN > archives, if you want it. I for one would like a pointer to that one. -- Regards, Anders (address is valid) A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.