I gave a talk today, and everything went really well until I ran out of time. It didn’t end up being a bad talk. I just ended up speaking a lot faster in the last five minutes than in the first twenty minutes, and rushing through things in the end.<\/p>\n
There is no single answer to the question: “How long should I talk for?” Sometimes people want me to squeeze everything into half an hour, including questions, and other times I’m told: “We have the room for three hours. Use as much time as you want.”<\/p>\n
So I’m thinking of turning my talk into an accordion talk<\/i> — a presentation that can shrink and grow to fit the available time. Since I write all my own presentation software, this shouldn’t be too difficult.<\/p>\n
The fundamental idea, I’m thinking, is to tag each slide according to how long a talk it would be part of. The most important “tent pole” slides would be in every talk — even the short 15 minute talks.<\/p>\n
But other slides would be tagged by “40 minutes” or “60 minutes” — meaning that I should skip over that slide if my talk is supposed to come in at less than 40 or 60 minutes, respectively.<\/p>\n
Yes there is still some fuzziness in this. The technique heavily relies on my knowing how long it takes for me to present various given slides.<\/p>\n
But I think it would be far better than the sort of guessing that I do now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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