The Slide Deck: A DrupalCon Speaker Check-in

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1. DrupalCon Speaker Check-In Part 2: The Slide Deck O HAI! If you can see this: we probably haven’t started yet. Join the back-channel (chat on the side), and/or in IRC on Freenode at #drupalcon. Yes, we’re recording it. Yes, the whole thing should take less than 30 minutes. Having problems? ping me! • IRC: emmajane • email: emma@emmajane.net • twitter: emmajanehw
2. Contract The promise you make to your audience. Also: how to get the “wrong” people to leave. Today’s Agenda • Slides • Session format • Due dates
3. Before You Begin • Your story is important! • Answer the question: So what? • Know the desired audience outcome: • at the end of the presentation • the week after DrupalCon.
5. Three Things • You are wonderful. • Your slides give you polish. • People who remember YOU, remember your lesson.
6. What?
7. When Teachers Care Students Engage To engage the audience you need to care about your topic. • reveal your curiosity and your passion • tell a real story (about failure & success) • make connections to other sessions • highlight important things • don’t sell or pitch commercial products • let your slide deck support your story
8. Slides Enhance Your Story Caution: while your audience is reading: they are not listening to you. Text-heavy slides can be used if you are: • Reinforcing new vocabulary. • Limited by your visual connection. • Presenting to an audience whose primary language is not your primary language.
9. Good Slides Can Be Perceived For every slide, answer the questions: • What’s the point of this slide? • How does this slide and its imagery support my story? • Can someone at the back of the room read this slide? • Is it high enough in contrast that people will be able to perceive the content? (Are you sure?) Pro tip: do upload your slide deck ahead of time to the DrupalCon site.
10. Tell 'em You're Feeding the Fish Source: http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/12/Why-Mister-Rogers-Always-Told-Viewers-He-Was-Feeding-His-Fish/
11. Tell 'em You're Feeding the Fish • Not everyone in your audience will be able to see or read your slides. • Always describe the content of the slide as best you can without interrupting the flow. • Ensure “jokes” are accessible to everyone. Source: http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/12/Why-Mister-Rogers-Always-Told-Viewers-He-Was-Feeding-His-Fish/
12. Templates Are Required … sort of • Intro / outro templates are used by A/V teams to crop sessions and upload videos quickly. USE THEM. • If you have your own “title page” slide, put it after the conference slide. • Format your “thank you” slide using the template. • Do build slides with consistent styles so you can globally change fonts if they're not working.
13. Sample Format for Slides You might want to use: • All the words. • Just a few words. • Just a few words, in context.
14. Content of Slides • Do put important information in the center. The important stuff will get clipped off. • Do use the largest possible font. The room you’re presenting in is bigger than you think. • Do provide focus within the slide itself. Laser pointers and shadow puppet pointing won’t work with big con projectors. • Do embed videos, instead of using live demos. Seriously. No one wants to watch you fail. • Do use images to support your message. Or not. Whatever works, really. • Do ensure everyone can participate. Assume there’s at least one blind person in the audience.
15. Put information in the center
16. Use the largest possible font
17. Provide Focus within the slide
18. Put information in the center Use the largest possible font Provide Focus within the slide
19. Use the largest possible font Put information in the center Use the largest possible font Provide Focus within the slide
20. Provide Focus within the slide Put information in the center Use the largest possible font Provide Focus within the slide
21. Images Enhance the Story Images Enhance the Story
22. • http://speakerdeck.com/u/davidbonilla/p/gamification-cas2011
23. https://speakerdeck.com/u/eaton/p/product-framework-or-platform
24. https://speakerdeck.com/u/bermonpainter/p/css-pre-processors-stylus-less-sass
26. Drowning in text Drowning in text
27. https://speakerdeck.com/u/rozza/p/building-scalable-applications-with-mongodb
28. • http://speakerdeck.com/u/imathis/p/sass-compass-the-future-of-stylesheets-now
29. https://speakerdeck.com/u/dougneiner/p/streamline-your-ajax-requests-with-amplifyjs-and-jquery
30. Slide Deck Resources • Presentation Zen, Garr Reynolds • Slide:ology, Nancy Duart • The Cognitive Style of Power Point, Edward Tufte • tinyurl.com/slides-for-devs • www.speakerdeck.com • www.colourlovers.com
31. Panel Discussion
32. Fireside Chat http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124348109@N01/6351870961/
33. Live Demo Source: http://obamapacman.com/2010/02/apple-ipad-ibookstore-ebook-prices-high-price-myth/
34. Live Demos Fail Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/07/apple-iphone-announcement_n_603311.html
35. What Is Your Story? What is Your Style? What’s Your Point?
36. The Summary • Ensure your presentation has a message or a story for the audience to take home and share with others. • Ensure every slide supports your message. • Ensure every slide can be “perceived” by the audience. • Use any format you like, but be consistent. • Use the intro/outro slides provided by DrupalCon for video editing purposes.
37. “One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
38. Slide Deck Resources • Presentation Zen, Garr Reynolds • Slide:ology, Nancy Duart • The Cognitive Style of Power Point, Edward Tufte • tinyurl.com/slides-for-devs • www.speakerdeck.com • www.colourlovers.com