Presentation Patterns: A brief story about teaching technology

Presenting is an intimidating thing for many technologists. However, it doesn't need to be. What's helps is having a spelled-out game plan for how to craft, submit, and talk about your chosen topic. Our Presentation Patterns book has some recipes for that, and this presentation draws out a few of the most prominent ones for the Denver Java User Group audience.

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1. Presentation Patterns a brief story about teaching technology
2. Matthew McCullough @matthewmccull
4. http://presentationpatterns.com
6. ❶  Find your motivation
7. Want to do it.
9. Help others do better.
10. • Teach a skill that you know well and others are weak at. • Change opinions about something that is viewed as hot (or not). • Share a story of how something worked out well. • Recount how a popular process didn't work for your team. • Tell how you learned a hard lesson as a team. • Do a technical deep dive and make it approachable to newcomers.
11. ❷  Investigate your audience
13. Ask the event organizer.
14. Query past attendees.
15. Adjust for maximum audience impact.
16. • What is the technical level of the audience? Basic? Advanced? • What languages do the audience members primarily program in? • What kind of social diversity can I expect of the audience? • What age range might I expect? • What educational background will audience members typically have? • What languages will the audience possibly know?
17. ❸  Craft a story
18. Freytag can help.
19. 1 Exposition 2 Rising action 3 Complication 4 Climax 5 Falling action 6 Resolution 7 Denouement Exposition Clim ax Denouement
20. ❹  Write the proposal
21. Think about the weight of your words.
22. Brief, but impactful.
23. Lengths: •Title •Abstract •Description
24. Get inspiration from other proposals.
25. ❺  Market your talk
27. Advertise your talk everywhere you possibly can.
29. ❻  Design the talk
30. Sketch your ideas
31. Linearize at the last possible moment.
32. ❼  Build the talk
33. You are the talk.
34. Slides are merely a support.
35. Color is easy with a little help.
36. http://kuler.adobe.com
37. Design is easy, given examples.
38. http://speakerdeck.com
39. ❽  Practice the talk
40. Less than 10% practice their talk.
42. ❾  Just talk
43. Place friends in the front row.
44. The front row controls the room.
45. No stupid underwear analogies.
46. The audience members are your friends.
48. reduce your filler words um... uh... you know...
49. manage your question budget
50. manage your question budget
51. adjust your nose and eyes
53. ❿  Gather feedback
54. Provide a feedback channel.
55. @matthewmccull
56. Vent and direct the steam.
57. Freytag?
59. just two more things...
60. PresentationPatterns.com
61. Start Teaching!
62. @matthewmccull @ppatterns info@presentationpatterns.com