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When The Scientist Presents
http://scientific-presentations.com
This blog tackles the many challenges faced by the scientist who presents. It gives presentation tips and points to resources for presenters, including books, other blogs, URLs. It also contains original videos with Microsoft PowerPoint or Apple Keynote techniques (http://www.scivee.tv/user/7043/ ) and podcasts (http://scientific-presentations.com/?feed=podcast ).
- Added on: Oct 27th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Jean-Luc Lebrun
- Listed in: Science Personal Development
- Tags: science science talk powerpoint presentation tips audience expectations
Recent Posts
Who is responsible for communicating the outcome of research
This question is explored in a community forum of the online journal “The-Scientist.com”. You will find it here ->The importance of good communication skills in science (you may need a subscription to access this page). Here was my ans...
020 Telecom metaphor for effective scientific communications
Our new guest, Dr Francis Yeoh, CEO of the National Research Foundation, is drawing a useful analogy from the field of telecommunications to clarify the duties of the scientist who presents, and clearly define the conditions under which communicatio...
continuity bugs in linear slide presentations
Whenever you take a non linear media and flatten it (make it linear), you introduce problems of two kinds: 1) Discontinuities in logic. The audience needs to remember what was connected to what, earlier in your presentation, to see the connection log...
Learning from Henri Poincarré
Henri Poincarré, the French physicist and mathematician was an outstanding scientist. In his book, La Science et la Méthode (Science and Method – Dover publication translated by Francis Maitland), he states that “to understand” m...
Learning from Henri Poincaré
Henri Poincaré, the French physicist and mathematician was an outstanding scientist. In his book, La Science et la Méthode (Science and Method – Dover publication translated by Francis Maitland), he states that “to understand” me...
019 Dancing around outputs and outcomes
Did you ever wonder why your presentation, which looked and sounded awfully good, had little impact on your audience? The answer is found in this podcast… It is a matter of being able to tell the difference between a research output and a resea...
