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
   

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2. Matthew McCullough
   @matthewmccull
   

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4. http://presentationpatterns.com
   

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6. ❶  Find your motivation
   

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7. Want to do it.
   

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9. Help others do better.
   

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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.
    

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11. ❷  Investigate your audience
    

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13. Ask the event organizer.
    

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14. Query past attendees.
    

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15. Adjust for maximum audience impact.
    

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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?
    

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17. ❸  Craft a story
    

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18. Freytag can help.
    

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19. 1
    Exposition
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    Rising action
    3
    Complication
    4
    Climax
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    Falling action
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    Resolution
    7
    Denouement
    Exposition
    Clim
    ax
    Denouement
    

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20. ❹  Write the proposal
    

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21. Think about the weight of your words.
    

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22. Brief, but impactful.
    

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23. Lengths:
    •Title
    •Abstract
    •Description
    

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24. Get inspiration from other proposals.
    

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25. ❺  Market your talk
    

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27. Advertise your talk everywhere you possibly can.
    

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29. ❻  Design the talk
    

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30. Sketch your ideas
    

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31. Linearize at the last possible moment.
    

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32. ❼  Build the talk
    

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33. You are the talk.
    

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34. Slides are merely a support.
    

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35. Color is easy with a little help.
    

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36. http://kuler.adobe.com
    

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37. Design is easy, given examples.
    

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38. http://speakerdeck.com
    

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39. ❽  Practice the talk
    

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40. Less than
    10% practice their talk.
    

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42. ❾  Just talk
    

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43. Place friends in the front row.
    

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44. The front row controls the room.
    

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45. No stupid underwear analogies.
    

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46. The audience members are your friends.
    

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48. reduce your filler words
    um... uh... you know...
    

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49. manage your question budget
    

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50. manage your question budget
    

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51. adjust your nose and eyes
    

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53. ❿  Gather feedback
    

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54. Provide a feedback channel.
    

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55. @matthewmccull
    

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56. Vent and direct the steam.
    

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57. Freytag?
    

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59. just two more things...
    

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60. PresentationPatterns.com
    

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61. Start Teaching!
    

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62. @matthewmccull
    @ppatterns
    info@presentationpatterns.com
    

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