Monday, April 13, 2020

How to give a bad online talk

Today at lab meeting, I wanted to brainstorm about how to give good online talks, because I'm giving a few remote talks in the next month. Tracy suggested that perhaps I should demonstrate a bad talk first, just to get everyone on the same page.

So I did!

Direct (YouTube link)

...enjoy? It's short, and not TOO painful if you show up with low expectations!


First, let me say that we were tremendously ...inspired by Greg Wilson's How to Teach Badly and How to Teach Badly (part 2)!

So here's what I did --

I put together a few slides on some stuff that I'd been working on recently, so it would look reasonable.

My initial screen opened with a private Twitter message up, to mimic inadvertent content sharing :).

I started out with "I didn't have a lot of time to prepare for this meeting so apologies for some of the slides."

My slide theme was very hard to read - bad fonts and colors.

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