How to make a good presentation?

How to make a good presentation?


Some suggestions given by my supervisor, Jingling Xue,is about how to give a good presentation in Computer Science research.
  • "Giving Example". We can not only use many literal description during the presentation. Only theory is not enough in Computer Science research and also hard to make audiences to understand. Giving example is helpful to explain the key points clearly.
  • Don't put too many words in one slide. It will make the audience to read, but not listen to what you are speaking. The content in slides is for attracting audience to focus on your topic.
  • Prepare each silde carefully and make others feel interesting. Consider how many points in one slide, what's the best order and what is the relationship between the point and the next slide.
  • Be excited. If the speaker is not excited, others will go to sleep during the presentation.
  • Put your own idea in the context of past works. Compare your idea with existed approaches.
  • Make good connection of different parts. All slides should be organized in reasonable way. Don't let the audience to guess the relationship between this slide and that slide.
  • Specific. Talk about specific problems. Talk about the code and program. Use code examples to illustrate the key idea not only what we should do. In fact, the essential part in every paper is only one or two basic points.
  • Must have indepth understanding to what you are talking about. Only if you have a picture in brain, you can explain well.
  • Consider all audiences as normal people, not experts. Try to explain every concept easy to understand.