Presenting (Like Scott Mc Cloud)
- 1. Presenting (like Scott McCloud)Nate Lowry
- 3. Upside
- 4. UpsideYou
- 12. QualificationsSample Engagements (2006-2009)• Google • Princeton University• MIT• SIGGRAPH• Disney Comic Writers Seminar• New York University• Carnegie Mellon• Savannah College of Art and Design• Mitre• Shanghai International Schools• Texas A&M• HSBC• Ohio State University• Adobe Systems• eBayPre-2006• Pixar• Harvard University• The Smithsonian• Microsoft• National Cancer Institute• DARPA• Xerox PARC• Game Developers Conference• Georgia Tech• UCLA• Electronic Arts• Lake Placid Film Festival• Chicago Humanities Festival• SXSW
- 19. Sometimes meets expectations: What it is How to Don’t be scared –
- 21. Informative
- 27. RULESTHE
- 28. Audience
- 29. Speed Doesn’t Always Kill
- 31. Make it EntertainingWhat do you think?
- 32. Don’t Just Talk About Slide ContentsPeople can readBe better than just the slides
- 33. Your PointMake
- 35. Don’t be too predictableEverything in moderation
- 36. Use Fancy Slide Show SoftwareDon’t forget fancy and expensive templates!
- 38. PRACTICE
- 39. “Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.”-Bobby Knight"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.“-John Wooden
- 40. Organize it in your head
- 41. Organize it on paper
- 42. ==Do they match?
- 43. Be ready to get off topic
- 44. A Whole New Mind&DriveNate Lowry
- 45. Know how to get back on topic
- 46. Be able to present it without slides
- 48. NO SIGNAL
- 49. What about the audience?
- 50. Now what?
- 51. Now what?
- 52. My personal challenge for youOne day lateorOne year early
- 54. Thanks
Editor's Notes
- #3: Why did I choose this topic
- #6: Who is that guy?
- #8: We’ve done some comics ourselves
- #10: Who is this guy, he looks familiar
- #11: That’s right, the Chrome comic!
- #12: Here he is with Will Wright (Maxis (The Sims, SimCity, Sim*))
- #13: Fully qualified
- #14: Where does this technique work?
- #20: What can you expect out of this?
- #21: These presentations have four main parts
- #26: No, this is IEEE
- #27: Focused is better. You can dance around, but make sure you always dance around the central topic.
- #28: Logo stolen from The Hills
- #29: Memorize your slides.
- #30: Find a good balance.Err toward the fast side. You’ll probably go a bit faster during the actual presentation.
- #31: Make sure the information is digestible. No walls of text.
- #32: What do you think when you’re going through the slides? Think about a fail whale? Put it on there, people will think like you want to.
- #34: BIG!
- #37: (Lies)
- #38: What does it take?
- #39: Wetalkin bout practice
- #41: What do you do during this preparation?
- #43: Optical illusion
- #44: Think about the random, but slightly-related questions you might get.
- #45: Lolz
- #46: Work on getting back to your topic from a tangent. Either be direct/abrupt or segway through some related information.
- #47: Don’t use them as a crutch. If you can’t sell it with passion sans slides, you won’t be able to do it with slides.
- #50: Again, you HAVE to think about the audience.
- #52: Watch good presentations. TED (http://ted.com) and other conferences like PDC (http://microsoftpdc.com/Videos) have great presenters all the time. A lot of their videos and slides are available online.WWDC isn’t as friendly to the general public.
- #53: Registration closed last night
- #54: Do something great. Try things like Ignite Lincoln, offer to speak for the Raikes School, or just play around with this stuff.