1. Giving a Good Presentation
by
Joseph A. Gallian
University of Minnesota, Duluth
First there was the blackboard, and all talks but here are some key ideas.
were given using one. Then there was the
• It’s almost impossible to overestimate
overhead projector. Now the method of
what the audience knows about your
choice for a talk is PowerPoint. Here we dis-
subject.
cuss how to give a talk where the assump-
tion is the speaker is using PowerPoint. How- • Keep technical terms and unfamiliar
ever, if you are not, most of the advice still symbols to a minimum.
applies. Whether this is your first talk or your
• Don