I've seen time-constrained presenters use their iphone clock's countdown program on a desk so they have a timer to glance at while they talk. If the slides are numbered you can probably see how well you're doing on time as you move through them. If good questions eat up time, be willing to skip a few unimportant slides in the middle of the talk. It's better than skipping all the slides at the end.
Since you're taking your presentation pretty seriously, you could practice what you'll say for 4 or 5 slides and time yourself. This should give you a ballpark figure of how long it takes you to discuss one of your own slides. Also check out Slideshare to get a feel for interesting slide decks. http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?lang=en&q=java&sort=views On Dec 29, 11:01 pm, Tony Childs <alcdot...@gmail.com> wrote: > Great advice. Thanks. Another question occurred to me today. Is there a > good method (aside from practice) to target a certain timeframe in which to > fit a presentation? My intuition tells me that this might not lend itself > to generalization since there are plenty of factors that might affect it > (e.g. topic complexity, speaker's tempo, presence of demos, etc). However, > I'd be interested if anyone has any rules of thumb that you use to turn X > amount of content (chapters, sections, etc) into a presentation of Y > minutes. > > Thanks again for the advice so far. > > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Joe Sondow <joeson...@gmail.com> wrote: > > One way to learn how to do technical talks is to watch people do them > > and try to emulate the parts you like. Seeing them live at meetups is > > preferable. However if you're in a hurry there are many tech talks > > with slides posted on youtube and other sites, including the 5-minute > > lightning talks of the Java Posse Roundup at > >http://www.youtube.com/javaposse > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "The Java Posse" group. > > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
