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How To Do A Presentation – #htdap

This section contains Individual posts that have step by step guides on #htdap (how to do a presentation) for various types of presentations. Each posts contains detailed explanations with links to posts that deal with specific topics in more detail. The commonest types of presentations are listed below. If you would like to understand more, get in touch, follow @ffolliet on twitter or send an email.

#htdap posts

Plan analogue

A major step forward in improving presentations is creative planning. The majority of presentations delivered are constructed within the presentation software; data is simply entered, re-organised and read out. The…

ffolliet
April 11, 2015
#htdap, p1

How to “do” a short teaching session

One of the challenges of any talk is the wide experience of the audience. The same is true in writing this blog. I recently was privileged to be interviewed by @ccpractitioner…

ffolliet
April 3, 2015
#htdap, practise

How to “do” a presentation #htdap

How to do a presentation is an ordered list. Please follow the steps, in order. I think you’ll find the result both illuminating and rewarding. There are lots of links…

ffolliet
October 5, 2014
#htdap, practise

Conformity for success? or not?

A recent email discussion highlighted a problem with improving presentations skills; some people don’t like change. It is clear that the current approach of “death by powerpoint” is ubiquitous. What…

ffolliet
March 20, 2014
#htdap

PechaKucha :Twenty, 20 sec tips.

I recently had the opportunity to present at a PechaKucha event. The word itself means “chitchat” in Japanese and is a presentation format with a strict structure; twenty slides, each…

ffolliet
October 21, 2013
#htdap, p cubed, p1, p2, p3

I know what you are saying is right, it’s just that…

The Sensei, Garr Reynolds, recently blogged about the discussion around scientists being terrible communicators. It’s true, we are! And probably we are actually taught to be as bad as we…

ffolliet
October 5, 2013
#htdap

I’m not confident enough to give up bulletpoints

A recent discussion on twitter highlighted a problem. Most people recognise that bulletpoints limit their expression, stilt the conversation of a presentation but ultimately make them feel more comfortable in…

ffolliet
August 27, 2013
#htdap, p2

Tweet me your presentation @ffolliet

The point of a presentation is not a massive download of fact but transmission of an idea, a hope, a concept, inspiration or purpose. This is the intrinsic flaw in…

ffolliet
June 26, 2013
#htdap, p1

Memes are time specific

Ideas, music and memes are time-specific in popular…
Be the change you want to see

Be the change you want to see in…
You’re doing it wrong(er)

You’re doing it wrong if you think a…
online presentation setup

Online presentation setup is as important for the…
how to do an online presentation

How to do an online presentation? The answer…
Zoom, zoom, zoom.

Zoom, zoom, zoom seems to be all we…
It’s a privilege

“It’s a privilege to be here today and…
more questions

More questions on twitter and through email from…
Just don’t…

Just don’t ever consider doing any of these…
Top 10 tips

A recent tweet from a colleague Edd Broad…