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Presentation Hacks: Timing, timing, timing
- tptacek 17y agoFor the last several talks I've given, I've printed all my slides and taped them up to the wall. Then I rehearse the talk once with a marker and write notes as I work out the wording. Then I walk through the talk with someone else in the room, more explaining the slides and the narrative than actually rehearsing, taking notes while I do that. Then I collect my notes and practice from that. I find actually rehearsing to be incredibly difficult (it's awkward, in the same way that narrating a screencast is awkward, but magnified), and while this isn't a perfect substitute, it's drastically better than just trying to write out everything I'm going to say, or, worse, just throwing slides together and hoping.