Your Attention Please!
| Knowing your audience is probably both the hardest and most important aspect of giving a great talk. JohnMont (of Popfly fame) just wrote a post on The Art of the Demo TV commercials have it right - you have a VERY small window to get your point across and then get off. Boredom = public enemy #1. As such, max attention span is the most important aspect of any audience to understand. Having given my share of lectures and demos on campus here's what I've found (in odd numbers): Students outside a talk = 30 seconds
Students in a talk = 3 minutes
Students being quizzed later = 30 minutes Aside from that more technical = more questions :) I also liked Alfred's note that teachers demo every day in his reply. With that in mind, maybe I need to get back to school... |  |
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