It takes people 1 - 3 minutes to absorb a slide (bullet-pointed or not), just because it takes a little time to change focus. You've got 30 - 50 slides too many.
Look at whether any of the information can go to speaker's notes - those can be printed out and it saves a lot of space in the slides. I treated the notes like the content and the slides as the chapter titles. Since readers are not always used to using the notes, either print them out yourself or note to the readers to print them out.
When do you have to have this done? I am very experienced with presentations and would be honored to help, if I could.
A Dissertation defense is unlike any other talk you'll ever give. They HAVE to be there, they HAVE to follow what you're presenting, and they've seen the document for a week (at least) beforehand. Given that the crowd will all have scientific backgrounds and will know much of the relevant background and/or a common scientific training, you can pump a lot more information down their eyeballs than in a more open forum. And the talk is for them, not the wider audience - this is particularly true in your case, with that obscure, arcane crap ;)
Also, I dunno about ComSci, but in Astro, much of the time your thesis dissertation is 3 distinct observing projects that all probe a single overall phenomenon. The oral presentation often just skips some of it - for example, you'll present the overall project background, then the data for one observing program, then the overall conclusions from the 3 programs together. Then the committee gets to probe on all of the observing programs and the conclusions, even if the wider audience doesn't get to see every picture.
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Date: 2005-10-18 12:58 pm (UTC)Look at whether any of the information can go to speaker's notes - those can be printed out and it saves a lot of space in the slides. I treated the notes like the content and the slides as the chapter titles. Since readers are not always used to using the notes, either print them out yourself or note to the readers to print them out.
When do you have to have this done? I am very experienced with presentations and would be honored to help, if I could.
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Date: 2005-10-18 09:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-10-19 05:27 am (UTC)A Dissertation defense is unlike any other talk you'll ever give. They HAVE to be there, they HAVE to follow what you're presenting, and they've seen the document for a week (at least) beforehand. Given that the crowd will all have scientific backgrounds and will know much of the relevant background and/or a common scientific training, you can pump a lot more information down their eyeballs than in a more open forum.
And the talk is for them, not the wider audience - this is particularly true in your case, with that obscure, arcane crap ;)
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Date: 2005-10-19 05:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
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