Presentation Length?

[synth3tk]

Hmm, the advice here to move towards MORE media in the presentation is contrary to some other people that helped me out. But at the same time, FIRST teams know more about what a FIRST team would need.

So, on to our photo gallery!

Also, for those of you who had multiple people perform the presentation, how did you organize that? Did you write down the key points on notecards and studied them (obviously not using them during the actual presentation)? How did you handle whose turn it is to speak? I'm assuming the entire presentation was segmented and delegated?

[rsisk]

I am working on a presentation for the Kiwanis for Wednesday right now. We have three presenters doing 5 minutes each on the following topics; First, the Team, the Competition. We are opening with the video that opened last years competition. After the presentation we will be demonstrating the robot.

Each presenter is putting together index cards with notes on their presentation. This weekend we will do a couple of dry runs to perfect the presentation and work on timing.

I'm attaching a link to the presentation in its current form, about 95% complete.

http://www.rsisk.com/kiwanis%20presentation%202009a.ppt

[Molten]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

Hmm, the advice here to move towards MORE media in the presentation is contrary to some other people that helped me out. But at the same time, FIRST teams know more about what a FIRST team would need.

The trick to media is balance. If used properly, pictures really enhance a presentation. But avoid having whole slides that are just pictures. This really detracts from it. Also, I find that you should always talk a minimum of 3X the amount of time they are watching a video. For instance, the animation that we are given at the beginning is a good video length. A match might be good. But together the presentation would become less personal.

[synth3tk]

Oh I didn't plan on replacing it all with pictures and videos. But my current revision has paragraphs of text, with few multimedia pieces. Just need to cut down the text to simple bullet points and maybe add a video.