 Okay, now I think we are recording. Welcome everyone to the second speaker check-in for DrupalCon Portland. I am going to once again flip over to screen share. You should be able to, if you're in the WebEx webinar right now, you should be able to go ahead and download the slides if you want to skip ahead. And I am going to switch over to PDF Presenter. Here we go. Okay, if you've got questions as we go along, either use the WebEx chat window or the IRC channel pound DrupalCon. If you're having any problems, you can also ping me in either an IRC or in Twitter. I've got both of those open and I'm sort of half watching them. So if I drift off from time to time, it's that I've disappeared to do a little bit of a technical check-in with someone else. Today's presentation should be less than 45 minutes. I'm happy to stay as long as needed to answer any of your questions. What we're going to be going through today is the slides, session format in terms of some of the different ways that you can present your information and also your last due date for the speaker check-ins with your track chair. The date, some of you got a bit confused about the April 19th date. That was indeed your date to check-in with your track chair and make sure that an overview or the draft slide deck was available to be reviewed. This is not as checking to make sure that you've done your homework. This is us checking to make sure that there's nothing that we can help you with or just a couple of deadlines to remind you that some preparation is appreciated and required. Your next deadline is May 10th and on this date, I'll switch to green here in case you've got any red-green colorblind folks and the black isn't showing up the red. The May 10th deadline is for your final slide deck. Now, we say final, but that's kind of an air quotes because ultimately you will be presenting with your own computer and you can make last-minute changes if you need to. May 10th, we think that's a good time frame for you to have your final slide deck in place. However, you can make last-minute changes and certainly I am always guilty of a few last-minute changes myself on my own presentations. Let's get started on the walkthrough today. Ultimately, what I'm going to be taking you through is once you've got your outline in place and maybe your draft slides, what are some of the things that you should be thinking about to evaluate your deck and your presentation from this point forward. Hopefully, you do have a rough structure in place at this point. This is kind of the before you begin part and it's always a little bit overwhelming to think about what it is that you're trying to get across with your slides and your presentation and all of this stuff. I think the most important thing that I always come back to and I always encourage people to come back to is your story. The story is the most important thing that you can help the audience with at your DrupalCon presentation. If not, I'm just someone's jumped in here. I'm just going to make sure that everyone is muted. There we go. Can let me know in IRC if you can still hear me because I've just muted everyone. Just let me know in IRC if you can still hear me. Excellent. Okay, great. The story is the most important thing that you need to get across during your DrupalCon presentation. It's not the tiny technical details that are maybe the most important thing to you but it's not necessarily the most important thing for someone to remember about your presentation. They simply need to remember that you had important details that they should go back and look up. So really what we want people to be doing is answering the question, so what? Why should I care about this presentation? What was it about the story that I need to come back to later on? How is it going to impact my future self? Ultimately, you should know the desired outcome for your audience as well and that means that at the end of the presentation, they're going to have a specific takeaway or a specific action that you want them to take and then the week after DrupalCon when they're at work, they're going to be able to put into action your story. So keeping a focus on that one thing that you want people to do with that one desired outcome is really going to help focus your slides and eliminate a lot of the stuff that quite frankly people aren't going to remember anyways. It's going to make the presentation more confusing and we want to simplify. We want to refine and we want to make this into as I referred to in first speaker check-in an edutainment experience. We want to engage and excite people but we don't expect them to actually walk out of the room with new capacity or a new skill set. This is not, it's not the same as the training session where we expect some learner outcomes on this. So let's take a moment and go through three different things that I think are key to whether you're a new presenter or a really experienced presenter. There's really three things that I think are very powerful and the first one to remember is that you are an awesome person. You as a presenter are up there, you've been selected, you are there to rock it and you know people are there to see you. So number one, it's you on stage. Number two is that your slides are going to give you some polish. They're going to enhance your delivery but they're not the story. You're the story. You're the storyteller. Your slides are you know if you think about maybe your parents read to you as a kid or maybe your siblings read to you. The book was important for sure but it was that act of being with someone else that really was special, not necessarily just the book on its own. Ultimately the third thing, people who remember you will remember your lessons and they'll fall in love with you. They won't fall in love with your slides. So even if you're not super comfortable in the visual domain, that's fine. Let's look at a different way to present the same information that I've just given you. With this one we started out with just a number three on the screen. Now let's take a look at that exact same information but with a different presentation. So this time I'm going to tell you that I've got three things. You have a wonderful story to tell, your slides enhance your delivery and people want to fall in love with the story that you're about to tell them. People don't want to be bored. They don't want you to fail on stage. They want to have an awesome experience and whether you know it or not they are secretly rooting for you and cheering for you. You just need to remember that. Now let's look at a third way to present that same information. You are wonderful. Your slides give you polish and people remember you and remember your lesson but not necessarily your slides. In IRC what I'd like you to do now is tell me what I just said. And also in the comments, so in IRC as you're typing out, which of the three slides resonated with you the most? What did you feel that you were able to focus on as a listener? So I'll just pause for a second here and have the IRC takeover for a second. I'll read some people fall in love with you. It's not the slides. This is great. And what were some of the visual, what were the visuals that stuck with you? You personally because we tend to prepare slide decks that resonate with us which is great because when you're on stage you also want it to feel familiar and comfortable for you. Did you like the number presentation better where I just had the number three or did you like it when there was words to follow along with? And so this is great. So people are and they're not disagreeing in IRC but people are saying that different things resonate with them and this is part of what I love about presenting. We're all different. So every time we as a speaker get up on stage our slides say something about us as a presenter, as a storyteller and we need to think about our biases when we're preparing these stories because the audience may not have the same affection for the way that we've chosen to deliver the information. So let's go through a couple of really text heavy slides here and take a look. I'm just going to sort of read through them with you. Webinar delivery is very difficult because you can't see my charming self on stage. So let's read through a couple of different text heavy slides before we get to some of the pictures. All right. So the first one here is when teachers care students engage. This slide is using an assertion based title. Commonly what we do is we put questions at the top and then we put bullets at the bottom that answer those questions. I've been trying to get away from that and moving more towards assertion based statements or assertion based slides that have the summary or the answer on top because if people are reading email or they're looking away that's what they're going to look up to quickly is the headline. So I want to give all of my information in the headline instead of the question in the headline. Now let's take a look at what these points are and what that actually means that when teachers care students engage. So to engage the audience you need to care about your topic and I think that this is the the biggest take away that I can give you that I can share with you is you having a passion for what you're sharing with people is that's going to be infectious. So I want you when you're on stage in your story in your presentation to reveal your curiosity and your passion. I want you to tell a story to people and this can be about failure or it can be success. But telling a story will really pull people in and give them a reason to connect with your information. One of the things that I like doing is to make connections to other sessions. If you're the first presentation in your session or in your track or in your day you can still connect to the keynote and if there's no connections obviously just skip this. But it is kind of a nice thing to be able to do and say remember in this session when that presenter was talking about blah while my foo is similar to their blah make those connections for people. Highlight important things so really spend some time to punch up the stuff that you think is important and if we think about how graphic that number three was the number three didn't matter at all but it sure gave a highlight to something specific because it was so different from the previous four slides and then the subsequent two slides. This is a Drupalcon specific rule. We ask that you don't sell or pitch commercial products and that's because well for a lot of different reasons but ultimately it's really hard to get excited about a sales pitch. My apologies to any sales people who are on this speaker check-in or watching later. I'm sure yours are much better than most of the ones that I've seen and I look forward to seeing your pitch just not on Drupalcon stage. And finally on this point in terms of when teachers care, students engage, let your slide that support your story. Your slides aren't the full story. You are the story and your experiences are the story. Your slides should be supporting that story. Your slides should enhance your story. Sorry I'm just scanning back to see if there was anything else. Nope we're good in IRC good. So your slide should enhance your story and one of the things that's difficult is we can work either in an oral domain or oh gosh now I can't think of which oral I was doing ORAL or AUR in any case. We can do one thing and only one thing. We can experience in one sense or another but it's very difficult to experience in two senses. At this point in time type into IRC were you reading or listening? Excellent. So we've got some listeners and we've got some readers. So you can see here that the majority of people were listening to my words and they weren't reading what was on the slide but one person was reading. So people can generally do one or the other but both is very difficult. So if you have a lot of words on your slide caution while your audience is reading they are not listening to you. You can go back and forth but generally speaking unless you are reading the words on the slide it's very difficult for people to sync up that information. I personally think that there are three situations where it's appropriate to use text heavy slides. The first is if you're reinforcing new vocabulary. So if you've got specific commands or specific code and you want people to learn the words I think in those situations text heavy does make sense. If you are limited by your visual connection I tend to when I'm presenting in webinar use word heavy slides although when I'm presenting on stage with people in front of me I tend to use picture heavy slides. And the third situation is when you're presenting to an audience whose primary language is not your primary language. And I think for me this is more true at Drupalcon Europe. I tend to speak very very quickly when I get excited about something. And so having more words on the slide means that if someone can't keep up with my accent and my Canadian they can just tune me out and they can read my slides instead. They'll still pick up my enthusiasm but they don't necessarily need to hear every single word and understand every single word in my presentation. This is less of a concern at Drupalcon North America but still something to consider. One of the things I've tried really hard to do is at the beginning of my presentation I reset my enthusiasm clock and my enthusiasm clock dictates how quickly I'm allowed to speak in a given situation. If you go back and watch my Munich presentation watch the first minute or two and then fast forward to where I start ranting which I think is maybe three quarters of the way through. There's a snap where I click into a level of enthusiasm that has a much much faster pace to it. We can, Lorna is saying she speaks slower for a US audience because she's British. But it is something to think about is your pacing. You want to show your enthusiasm but not to the detriment of your audience being able to understand what you're saying. And certainly text heavy slides can help in those situations. Alright let's take a look at our third text heavy slide here. This one, I've changed the language on this one to relate more to or to use the language that we use in web accessibility. And here I've said that good slides can be perceived. And for those of you who have done some web accessibility work what are the two different ways that perceived or perception is interpreted? In IRC just go ahead and type it in. I know that there are a few of you who've done at least usability work if not accessibility work as well. So again what are the two, and the English majors among you guess ask go ahead what are the two different definitions of what perceived can mean? Oh I'm getting crickets on this one. Let's see if anyone gets it. Nope alright so no guesses. So the two ways that perception matters and especially when it comes to slide decks and information is can I see the information and do I understand the information? The sort of do I understand bit is what's the point of the slide? Is this a joke that other people are going to understand? Is this can this be perceived by the audience in the sense of understood? Is it going to relate to your story and enhance your story? How does the imagery in the words support your story? How does the slide support the story? Now the second definition is simply can you read it? Can you see it? Can someone at the back of the room read this slide? One of the things that I do if I can if I can get away with it I go into the room that I'm going to be presenting in the very beginning of the day before the first session and I go back and I talk to the AV tech folk and I say can I plug in I just need to make sure that my fonts are big enough. I plug myself in and my vision is pretty good so I take my glasses off and I walk to the back of the room and I flip through my slides and I check to see can I actually read my own slides and if I can't I do whatever I can to increase the font size increase the contrast and make them easier to see the slides. Now if your slides are as text heavy as this is you have no room to fiddle around in terms of improving the perception or see ability if that's a word. It is now of course because I've just said it of those slides. So give yourself some wiggle room. So we've talked about here about font size and then also high enough contrast and taking the time to actually check to make sure that this is possible. So question in IRC is do we have access to these folks AV people and when. What I have always done so this is a question from Seth what I have always done is just shown up at the conference quote unquote generally speaking on Monday they are in the rooms and setting up the AV now go and find your room. I am not sure which rooms were using for triple con Portland but I know that there are small rooms and I know that there are big rooms if you're in a room that holds 100 people or 50 people you're fine you don't need to double check it because people will physically be forced closer to the screen if you're in a room that holds a few hundred people people like to sit in the back row and that's when you do need to check in with the AV folks they are probably going to be setting up on the Monday but they'll also be there generally speaking as of the keynote each morning so you should be able to go in and just check with them you also at registration can simply ask you know where who can I go talk to who's on site that day to point you in the right direction yeah you should be able to on Monday drop in and see them in my experience the AV people get really excited when you care enough about your presentation to show up ahead of time and check in with them but you might need to be a bit flexible and just say hey I'm hoping to hop on stage and check these slides out when would be a good time for you and they will let you know when a good time is for them they are going to be your superheroes on the day of your presentation so not that you should bring them chocolate or something like that but you know in that level okay so my sort of pro tip on this one is assume that everything is going to go wrong with your slides they won't be perceived you can't actually get it working just upload them and then tell people to download the slide deck that's the easiest cheat in that one right so enough with the tech heavy stuff let's take a look at some way to incorporate imagery one of the things that we need to be aware of when we incorporate imagery is that it's not always something that can be perceived or understood by the audience for a variety of different reasons in IRC how many people either grew up on Mr. Rogers or are familiar with Mr. Rogers say I like Mr. Dress Up but I did know about Mr. Rogers as well so just sort of you know have you seen this character before yet just to go back in time if you do have a handout for people by all means let them know that it's available for download you can put that on your introductory slide as well okay so Mr. Rogers had a routine that he went through and one of the things that he would do every day is he would feed the fish and Mr. Rogers would always tell when he was feeding the fish and I found out recently I didn't know this but he would tell the people he was feeding the fish because he had a blind girl write him a letter and say Mr. Rogers I don't know if you're feeding the fish can you tell me please when you're actually feeding them because I'm concerned that they're not getting fed and whether it's true or not it doesn't really matter because Mr. Rogers from that point on told people he was feeding the fish and this is something that you need to think about with your slides is there someone in the room who for whatever reason can't perceive your slide are they missing out did they know that your fish are being fed so in your presentation it's just something to think about make the delivery of your story encompass as many senses as possible and that includes the oral storytelling the visual storytelling all of these elements kind of fit together but for currently at loud just tell them when you're feeding the fish alright so now here we go here's the text equivalent not everyone in your audience will be able to see or read your slides always describe the content of the slides as best you can without interrupting the flow and finally make sure that your jokes are accessible to everyone and that final point in terms of accessibility I don't just mean can they see the image and they can they take part in the joke but culturally is this something that's going to be accessible to them and the cultural bit is it's something that over time I have gone from appealing to who I thought would be the majority of the audience to becoming more conservative and more aware of the future audience who's not sitting in front of me I am more interested in my presentations today in someone five years from now who's watching the recording feeling like they were included and part of the joke and part of the story so I generally cut out a lot of craft humor that personally like when after the sessions are over and when we're out having a drink I will tell you all the rude jokes there are to know but it's not my on stage behavior because I don't feel that it's inclusive and I don't feel that it's accessible to my audience today and my audience that I want five years from now to join the Drupal community so that's my kind of like soapbox story about jokes I'm happy to review if you're not sure if your content is going to be perceived as funny I'm happy to go over that with you but ultimately you're all smart folks I bet you can figure it out okay so the next piece I will in blue circle this one templates are required yes I know that Seth did not want to use the templates yesterday I feel kind of bad that I keep calling him out on this but you know I gotta pick on someone right so yes templates are required and that's because we use them at the beginning and at the end of your slide decks the templates are available on the speaker resources page so probably that's where the page you went to to find out how to click through and sign up for the webinar today if you go simply to the Drupal con Portland site and then under speakers and speaker resources those downloadable templates are there you don't need to use them for your whole slide deck and in fact if you use them for the middle of your slide deck and use the 18 layers of nested bullet points down to a 0.2 font I am going to unfriend you and that's it like no friending of people who use 18 layers of nested bullet points down to a 0.2 font but please please please please use the intro and outro templates add another title page for your own slide no problem but what we do is we use these to edit the videos and the more easily perceived the beginning and end of your presentation is the faster the AV teams can crop your sessions and get your videos uploaded so again just the first and the last slide from the template slide deck from Drupal con do beautiful things on the inside of your slide deck but those first and last slides please do use the templates my other tip here is for your own templates please make sure that you're using styles that you can globally change so don't just manipulate a font size but manipulate a style think of it as applying CSS to your slides because if your slides for whatever reason aren't working and you need to change the font size or the font that's being used having to edit your slides one by one hand over hand is it's just going to waste your time and stress you out so make sure that you are using styles within your slide decks generally speaking if you're using a template of some kind you are using styles and you should be fine if you need more information about it ping me afterwards and I will absolutely help you get set up with that through quickly a couple of different text based formats for slides I think these are it's less interesting information and same concepts as what we went over in terms of the number three but just to give you some more visual to reinforce that you don't need to use our template in terms of the Drupal con template but there's different formats have different advantages to them so I've got three different samples one is to include all the words the second is just a few words and then the third one is just a few words in context so in IRC go ahead and as we flip through these examples shout out in IRC is this an example that you like is it one that you don't like what do you like about it what don't you like about it so here's the first one this is all the words and it's a wall of text isn't it exactly so let's take a look at what the content is on this one this is telling me to put important information in the center and then this is essentially a speaker note right the important stuff will get clipped off do use the largest font possible the room you're presenting in is bigger than you think and that doesn't mean it's full it just means that there's someone who's sitting in the back row because that's what they like to do and let's face it folks who like to sit in the back row are probably in this webinar as well you know who you are do provide focus within the slide itself laser pointers and shadow puppets won't work with big conference projectors one of my favorite things to do is just sit in front of the projector and like actually get my hands up in there and point it code and like do little shadowy puppet things now that we're using big girl projectors that do rear screen like they they present from behind instead of in front this doesn't work and it saddens me deeply but it means that I've had to put the focus within the slide itself do embed videos instead of using live demos no one watch wants to watch you fail everyone wants to see you succeed do use images to support your message or not whatever works really do ensure everyone can participate my safest assumption for this is assume that Everett is going to be sitting in your presentation and Everett can be everywhere all of the time Everett will let you know if he cannot perceive the content okay same slide different way of absorbing the information this time I'm going to give you only one of those bullet points at a time put information in the center now I as the speaker have to remember that the subtext is the important stuff will get clipped off and the next one down use the largest font possible the room you're presenting in is bigger than you think so you want to make sure that font is big a couple of suggestions in IRC is to use a minimum of 18 point for the font size the other thing to be aware of is you want to turn off auto resizing on the slides because that'll squish the font down so you think it's 18 point but actually it's just bumped down to 12 point because you've sold out the slide the third one here provide focus within the slide laser pointers and shadow puppets won't work with big conference projectors so make sure that the focus can exist within the slide itself and one more way of presenting that same focus could be well I've got a couple of examples on but more to do with code so let me let me skip through these other examples and show you the code stuff specifically in a couple of slides okay so same three bullet points that we're going to take a look at and this time I'm going to highlight one at a time so once again there's no speaker notes on the slide put information in the center the important stuff will get clipped off and then I go to the next slide use the largest possible font the room is bigger than you think minimum 18 point font and the third point provide focus within the slide don't rely on external things to be able to point out font okay so that's three different ways of presenting exactly the same information and choose one that that you like or choose none of them it doesn't doesn't really matter as long as you're consistent and you're enhancing your story alright so now we move on to more images and more examples and I tend to present with more pictures and tell a story that goes along with my pictures in part because I my early career as a public speaker involved memorizing four minute speeches and then spitting back exactly the same words I'm lazy at it I'm really really lazy at staying on script I'm really great though at telling a story so I personally am a lot more comfortable putting up an image that triggers me into telling the supporting story alright now let's take a look at I think there's about half a dozen of these examples so number one what language is this let's see if there's anyone who can pick this one out Spanish thank you and if you don't speak Spanish which I don't do you recognize what this might be about are there any things are there any visual cues in here clout yeah so even if you don't speak the language it's not your natural language it's not even a language that you speak forget about it being your first or more common language there's still some cues in here that you can relate to and a couple of words that you can mix and match with beautiful beautiful slide deck this is if you've downloaded the PDF yourself of the slide this is on speaker deck and it's a the URL is up in the top there it is there but it's big it's bold it's got some focus with some examples and it also has quadrants in terms of saying in the bottom right in the bottom left you've got areas that you can slide focus with through language even if you don't have access to a pointer the next one here is perhaps some of you have seen this slide before does anyone know if I okay without looking at who it is does anyone know whose slide this is have you seen this presentation before yeah it's an eaten slide so this one here is great in terms of telling a story to go along with a graphic there's no code in here we don't need to say to people on the left side is an iPhone on the right side is a camera phone elastic band but you can certainly you can describe the image as part of the narrative or part of the story this one now we're going to get into a series of code ones I think there's three or four code examples again these are all from speaker deck so the URL is there we go the URLs are up at the top here I do like putting URLs in because there's not a great asset management system for slides so it's as much for myself as anything else okay in this one I've got color and I've got columns so I can help people out by telling them that there are locations they need to look at I do like the variable information up at the top I am less excited about this stuff down at the bottom I think that that gets in the way but it depends how you want to engage with your audience if you want them tweeting and you want them asking questions then by all means make sure that that tag is included next one whoa that's all I got on that one right drowning in text on this and furthermore like why are these logos down here what is all of that it's just overwhelming I don't even know where to start on this one okay so limit your text next one this is a lot of text but it does give me some visual cues so I can refer up here to my bullet points I can give examples in terms of a bit of color coding down here you need to be careful with the color coding that you're not relying on don't just refer to the blue text explain what the blue text is but it's a little bit better there's some cues down there again what is this stuff down here don't do that to yourself okay next this is great this has the pointers in place so we've got lots of cues in here but it's not all jammed in they're subtle here's the fact that I'm using SAS and CSS and the different examples of the input and the output okay again these are just some ideas to get you going they're all pulled from speaker deck this one uses a similar colored font to the background so essentially this kind of blurs itself out and I end up getting really highlighted text when it's got high contrast so this is taking advantage of contrast to put focus on the information that you want to talk about alright if you need more help on putting your slide decks together there are three books that I like all of my inspiration was pulled from speakerdecks.com awesome resource go fill your and flip through slide decks there the three print books that I quite like are presentations and slideology and if you can find it the cognitive style PowerPoint does anyone have any other favorites for slide design just an IRC any other favorites for slide design slide share for inspiration presentation patterns I got to admit I did not love presentation patterns but I will definitely write it down here if I can type please there we go presentation Zen presentation patterns is a recently released book that gives basically like coding patterns except for slide decks I had very high hopes for it it's not really the book's fault it's more I should not have had the expectations that I did okay so it looks like those are some of the more popular ones now let's kind of get a little crazy and say what if you're not going to do a slide deck every presentation has to have a slide deck there are I would say three different styles that inherently don't have a slide deck the first is a panel discussion and this perhaps gives you an indication of what I think of panel discussions how much fun does that look like to sit through yes I have blurred out the conference I love them dearly but I've tried to anonymize them it's not fun everyone gets 30 seconds and it's not fun for the audience so yeah panels can be really really good if they are set up like debates and the presenters prepare to argue and they come prepared the moderator is a very very critical role in a panel discussion and this is very different from a group presentation so this is just you know people show up and answer questions kind of ish you can do it they're not a lot of fun for the audience though the next one is a fireside chat this format is what Dries used for his Drupalcon Munich keynote presentation and I think this can work really well especially for and not saying that this is why Dries used it but this is great for folks who have massive stage fright so you can have now I don't know who it was in this one but let's assume this guy is the asker and these guys are the answerers you can set up a really nice friendly dynamic where the person who is presenting or the expert take a look he's not looking at the audience at all so he can be totally focused on the other person on the stage with him and I do think this is totally appropriate and makes sense especially in situations where the subject matter expert is not they are totally overwhelmed by public speaking and it just makes them want to blow into a paper bag I think it's a great format for for those folks the third one is the live demo and we all want live demos to go as well as Steve Jobs live demo but the reality is as speakers we do not have as much control over our presentation environment as what Steve Jobs and quite frankly the amount of time that he was able to commit to his live demos when mere mortals like us do live demos they end up going like this and remember maybe you do maybe you don't this is a live demo where he couldn't get online because there was too many people in the audience using up his bandwidth he was not a happy camper this is the unhappy face of Steve Jobs so what you want to do is control your environment as much as possible if you are giving a live demo and to me that means screencast your live demo ahead of time so that you can hit play and show people a live demo but it's pre-recorded so it's still live it's just not live to air it's live to tape you need to make your own decisions I would highly highly recommend that you not put yourself in Steve Jobs shoes and attempt live demos when they fail they are disrespectful to the audience and it becomes more and more difficult for the audience to love you if they feel that their time is being wasted. Okay so in our presentations we went through a couple of different examples in terms of slide decks and that kind of stuff but ultimately what's your story what's your style and what's your point what do you want people to remember how do you want to deliver it so that it is memorable for them and fun and engaging for you and really what's the story or the experience that you want people to walk away with ensure your presentation has a message I like it when stories have a take home that the audience can share with other people ensure every slide supports your message ensure every slide can be perceived by the audience use any format you like we looked at a bunch of different formats today but be consistent throughout your presentation please do use the intro and intro slides for video editing purposes and you know most of all I want you to have fun during this presentation that you're going to be giving a Drupal con your remaining two dates are may 10th you should have a final slide deck in place yes you will be presenting from your own computer so you can make any last-minute changes that you want you can upload your slides early if you like and then continue uploading your slides as you make changes let people know that the slides are there for them to download ahead of time or if for some reason mystery and mystique is really important to your presentation you can wait until afterwards to do that final upload I'm happy to take questions I did want to keep this to under 45 minutes I've gone over by a little bit but I will stick around for as long as people would like and I do see I've already got some questions in here so let me just go back into IRC and answer some of these questions do you record your narrative on the recorded demo or do you speak live over the playing video this is kind of a it's kind of risky to expect the microphone to correctly tap into your computer so I would say that it's fine to simply record the demo and then speak live over top of it but the advantage of recording audio as well is that you can simply upload that demo for people to review afterwards that's why we have to be consistent because otherwise people will talk to you about capital letters after your talk I'm pretty inconsistent and I have inconsistent capital letters in nine probably slides ahead of time pros and cons that is asking yeah I think there's as many pros as there are cons I kind of like doing handouts now instead of just uploading my slide deck which people really hate they want the slides even though if like if there's 75% pictures what are you going to do with that you want the like you want the handout which is essentially an export of the speaker notes and essentially my script so I would much rather give people a useful handout but people still claim her for the slides I don't know whatever but yeah yes uploading slides ahead of time as an insurance policy so I upload them I put them in Dropbox I have them on a USB key chain and I have them inside your computer inside my own computer so I put them all over the place often I'll even share them with other people and ask them for feedback and review which means that there's now a copy of my slides somewhere else if I email them to myself I can also access them from anywhere that I can get my email so I am the queen of the backup of the slides yes cover all the bases so do you prepare printed speakers note in addition to the slides I don't print out the speaker notes for myself certainly I do sometimes print out or write out cue cards for myself one of the things I ran into I definitely don't print to give out the handouts because you never know how many people will be showing up so I always do that digitally but for speakers note for myself one big caution I was on the big stage in Munich just because that was the room I was assigned to and the monitor at the bottom of the stage did not include my speaker notes it only included what was displaying behind me which meant that if I wanted to see my speaker notes I had to walk back over tomorrow my laptop was to read what the speaker notes were on the slide if you are a pacer like I am you'll be walking away from your laptop and then back to it it was unexpected to not have access to my speaker notes inside my computer so for you if that means printing it out by all means have a print out as well and or just be aware that you may not have access to those speaker notes so this is where practicing is going to help and if you know you're going to need them definitely print out the notes as well that's a great idea great great tip to set up a separate user account on your laptop for the presentation that way you won't have Skype I am notifications etc interrupting your presentation that's a great tip question do you think where do you think the thing where people think they want slides is actually they want handouts and will that change I think I don't know I don't know why people want the slide deck I think they want to relive in their mind the experience of the presentation but I don't know and it could also to be completely fair it could also be to do with learning styles and people will trigger the story better with a visual cue rather than just straight text so the yeah yeah one of the things that I did for the Munich handout was I included the relevant pictures and I you know I spent a fair amount of time on my 14 page handout and no one gave me compliments on it so I thought it was important I thought it was a really useful document but I did not get overwhelmed with compliments on it so you can decide if you want to spend time on it I personally think as an educator it is time well spent for my future learners but like I said people did not overwhelm me with compliments on it other questions webinar is a black background with white text is that because you know we're watching on our computer for projecting on a big screen is dark text on white background better it really depends on the quality of the room if you get a well lit room that you can't dim darker is going to be better than lighter and ultimately having control over your templates is best because you can always swap them out if it's not high contrast enough and not that not that high contrast is inherently less beautiful but I personally like I like looking at things that are more subtle and it's really hard to be subtle if you want people to be able to read your slides in a well lit room that is not optimized for slide projection so just be prepared to play with things on the day of the presentation you know save as swap out the background to see if it helps and people will let you know if they can't read it and tell them to download the slide deck and follow along with the slide deck just be ready for everything going wrong and everything will go perfectly at least that's been my experience over prepare and nothing wrong happens so my final thought for you today is that oh sorry more questions yes if your deck is in HTML yep just a URL is fine no problems there again make sure you do in that case a screen capture of the template just something for the beginning and something at the end so that the video editors can see where the beginnings and ends are because they're looking for that flash of the template and you can just do a screen shot of that that's no problem to put that picture in my final quote today and do you feel free to drop off if you are heading out if you've got more questions that's fine too but my quote for you to remember is that one repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil so I would love for your presentations at Drupalcon to be like a million times better than mine and for you to just rock out and do an awesome job and I think you can I think that everyone has a really interesting and exciting story to tell and the way that you deliver it does not need to be the same way as mine it needs to be unique to you and you are going to rock it out and I look forward to getting some new presentation tips from you after after I've seen you present which I'm totally stoked about so thanks everyone I'm going to end the recording but I will stick around in IRC if you've got more questions and if you do need to ping me if you want support if you want help whatever it happens to be just let me pull up that first slide again here are the ways to get in touch with me on IRC I'm Emma Jane by email Emma at EmmaJane.net or on Twitter I'm Emma Jane HW thanks everyone