What helped me most was to give the practice talks to a few different people. It's important to know how somebody coming in cold to the material will be able to follow it.
Agreed. I've done one with the advisor now, but of course he's been hearing me blather about it for years. I've got a couple of suckers, er, I mean volunteers to help me out with that now. :)
run-throughs are good.
Re: run-throughs are good.