I have to give a talk in 3 hours for 30 minutes in one of my classes on Vere Gordon Childe--but I completely forgot it was today, and now I'm cramming like hell to get this thing ready. How the hell do I make this thing go on for 30 minutes? Anybody have experience with this sort of thing? Anyone know anything about Vere Gordon Childe?
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30 minute talk in 3 hours, help me GAF!
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Two things. 30 minutes isn't as long as you think. Being interactive with your audience if you can, it really makes the time go fast.
Oh, and stop posting on GAF and get to work.
Oh, and stop posting on GAF and get to work.
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You probably have no future in anything remotely academic. I would start looking for lines of work that don't require a college degree.
Hope that helps!
Hope that helps!
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Rig the thing or bail out (see ToxicAdam's post). For a quality 30 minute presentation, I budget way more time than that unless I am so familiar with the subject material that I don't need to do research. And even then I spend about three to four hours getting the slides and notes right.
Is this like salsa verde?
Is this like salsa verde?
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Dolphin said:
One page. At this point it should just be an outline and you're talking about the topic naturally. No one wants to hear you read off your multiple sheets of paper for 30 minutes.
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Dolphin said:
Yeah, use an outline. Being "speeched" to blows, and its hard to do, anyways.
Think about stories. Telling stories engages your audience, gets them involved, and its easier for you to talk about. I don't know shit about Vere Gordon Childe though. So good luck.
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Dr_Cogent said:
Yeah! Go with this one. It seems to serve a lot of other people really well. :lol
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It would take a lot of text to fill up 30 minutes...unless you're reading extremely slow. Most people have the tendency to speed up when they're not prepared, so that won't help.
Are you allowed to use videos? Good way to suck up a few minutes.
Are you allowed to use videos? Good way to suck up a few minutes.
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Pft, 30 minutes is easy! You can do it. Try two hours with 2 out of four groupmates ditching you the morning of the presentation. That was a true cram, aced it (sympathy helped I'm sure but we did a damn fine job all things considered).
When I really have to get ready for something like this in a hurry, note cards save my life. I divide up the presentation into 5-minutes per notecard and write down about five points on each note card covering one aspect of the topic. Bring a couple of extra note cards and leave yourself time to practice it....preferably at least twice but in your case it's looking like once. Good luck!
And yeah of course Q&A/small groups helps but for 30-minutes...nah, you don't really need it. It will be obvious you are unprepared if you switch to Q&A halfway through or something (although I'm not sure that suggestion was entirely serious), but if the prof isn't providing room for them afterwards, 5 minutes looks classy, not unprepared.
When I really have to get ready for something like this in a hurry, note cards save my life. I divide up the presentation into 5-minutes per notecard and write down about five points on each note card covering one aspect of the topic. Bring a couple of extra note cards and leave yourself time to practice it....preferably at least twice but in your case it's looking like once. Good luck!
And yeah of course Q&A/small groups helps but for 30-minutes...nah, you don't really need it. It will be obvious you are unprepared if you switch to Q&A halfway through or something (although I'm not sure that suggestion was entirely serious), but if the prof isn't providing room for them afterwards, 5 minutes looks classy, not unprepared.
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Dr_Cogent said:
Using "like" is 1000x worse. I remember this girl who said it at least 50 times during a 5 minute presentation. Everybody in class was already counting them up in their heads within the first minute. It really starts getting annoying. You're just screaming "Like what? Like what, motherfucker?!" in your head the entire time.
That wasn't fake. When I'm drunk I just mash the keyboard and giggle.Zeed said:
I think I'm almost finished writing this thing, I'm going to divide it into talking points and memorize the material I've got. It stands at about six pages. I've got thirty minutes until I have to leave. Anyone know where to get last minute beta blockers? Did I mention I get awful stage fright?
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