[SIGCIS-Members] for upcoming SIGCIS meeting: tips on presenting

[Marie Hicks]

Great advice. Fortunately, most presenters I've seen at SHOT in the past 5
years have already integrated these basic techniques into their
presentations. Have you thought about updating the pamphlet?

It is rare that I see a paper "read aloud" at SHOT nowadays. Of the
conferences I go to, SHOT is actually one of the best in terms of
presentation style.

Best,

Marie
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Asst. Professor, History of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Paul N. Edwards <pne at umich.edu> wrote:

> All, as we prepare for the upcoming SIGCIS/SHOT meeting, I thought the
> following might be of use to this group.
>
> The unfortunate fact is that many historians are terrible presenters, due
> to an inherited tradition of read-aloud style talks. In the age of TED
> talks, SXSW, and Pecha Kucha, that style should be long dead, yet it
> lingers on like a zombie, feasting on the brains of graduate students
> (often infected by their professors).
>
> To try to change that culture, around 15 years ago I wrote a pamphlet on “How
> to Give an Academic Talk
> <http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtotalk.pdf>.”
>
> Having just endured yet another presenter who stared at the podium while
> reading aloud a paper he had written for publication — occasionally casting
> a wild-eyed glance at the upper left corner of the room, by way of
> pretending to actual communication with the audience —I updated that little
> pamphlet again, now on v5.2.
>
> Let’s build a better presentation culture. Most other fields have already
> done it. So can we, and historians of computing should be in the forefront.
>
> Best,
>
> Paul
>
>
> ___________________________
>
> Paul N. Edwards
> Professor of Information <http://www.si.umich.edu/> and History
> <http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/>, University of Michigan
> A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global
> Warming <http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/vastmachine/index.html> (MIT
> Press, 2010)
>
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> nothing)
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