Susan McConnell (Stanford): Designing effective scientific presentations

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What is the best way to give a talk that engages and informs your audience? Dr. McConnell gives helpful advice on preparing and presenting an effective scientific talk. She reviews the basics of PowerPoint or Key Note and gives advice on choosing fonts, colors and slide styles. She also recommends ways to structure your talk so the audience stays awake and engaged. Her final recommendation is practice, practice, practice! Whether you are a graduate student presenting journal club or a tenured professor giving an invited lecture, this talk is sure to prove useful.

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  • @Oodlenoots
    @Oodlenoots7 жыл бұрын

    0:00 Intro 3:05 Font style/size 5:29 Color contrast 8:50 Layout (heading, text, lists) 11:19 Use of empty space 12:20 Simple image on each slide 13:51 How many slides to show 14:57 Avoid busy slides 19:10 Data: Don't overdo it 21:21 Minimum essential components 25:19 Structure of a good talk 26:30 Use of home slide 29:27 Meat & Taters; Keeping the audience's attention 31:45 The specificity dive 35:07 Conclusions 37:40 Conclusion/Q&A slide 38:33 Conclusion of this actual presentation

  • @caothanhlong7577

    @caothanhlong7577

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much! It helped me a lot.

  • @massilejerez27

    @massilejerez27

    6 жыл бұрын

    my hero!

  • @maradeeym1029

    @maradeeym1029

    5 жыл бұрын

    not all heros wear capes!

  • @leticiawakem8890

    @leticiawakem8890

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @hmissile574

    @hmissile574

    4 жыл бұрын

    thank you

  • @riptideanaklusmos5721
    @riptideanaklusmos57212 жыл бұрын

    11 years later this is the most helpful video on giving presentations!

  • @KundanKumar-dc5jf

    @KundanKumar-dc5jf

    Жыл бұрын

    Reason may be you will use this idea to create stunning presentations for Breakthrough Junior Challenge

  • @divalyri6735
    @divalyri67355 жыл бұрын

    What's so hilarious is that at about 30 minutes into her presentation she switched to a dark screen and I found myself getting very sleepy and I almost stopped the video. Then she goes back to the white screen, shows a bell chart, and starts talking about how the attention span of the audience goes down over a period of time. That's EXACTLY how my attention span was during her presentation. But it was a good presentation though.

  • @social.2184

    @social.2184

    3 жыл бұрын

    She actually wanted us to feel . She was giving us a practical demonstration on attention span. LOL

  • @dinornis
    @dinornis2 жыл бұрын

    I hadn't realised this was an 8+ year-old video until reading the comments! It still largely stands the test of time 🥰 one thing that could be interesting to mention is accessibility (it looks like Michael Alley's book doesn't discuss this). Things like high contrast (not using text that blends in with the background) discussed in the video are great examples of important accessible features for disabled listeners/viewers. I like the idea of a centring slide! Thanks for this video, it's given me lots to consider as an undergrad who's new to PP presentations (but has sat through a lot of terrible ones!) 😊

  • @armacino89
    @armacino8911 жыл бұрын

    This is the best presentation I've ever seen :) I listened every minute of it without skipping! Thank you so much..

  • @seeker313
    @seeker313 Жыл бұрын

    Man I love her personality! Thank you very much professor for providing the whole idea in a comprehensive, insightful and effective way!

  • @hopeforescape884
    @hopeforescape884 Жыл бұрын

    This video from Jan 2011 still holds up in Jan 2023. 10/10 Thanks for the video doctor : )

  • @social.2184
    @social.21843 жыл бұрын

    These are the kind of video for which I love KZread and the Internet.

  • @dvjones262
    @dvjones2622 жыл бұрын

    This remains an excellent tutorial on how to give a technical presentation - life science based or in any other field. I just used some of the info in a lecture and told my students to be sure and watch this.

  • @tama7n7anne
    @tama7n7anne9 жыл бұрын

    "Use of animation" advise really saved my life. Thank you so much!!!

  • @buithanh8519
    @buithanh8519 Жыл бұрын

    I'm preparing for my thesis presentation. I kept listening non-stop to your guidances. It was very awesome

  • @mkilptrick
    @mkilptrick Жыл бұрын

    This really explains how the human brain works. Don't corrupt it with a lot of snow unless you are trying to fool it like politics. Excellent presentation.

  • @jumanamp806
    @jumanamp8067 жыл бұрын

    nice one :) you managed to give a talk on "how to talk" very effectively!

  • @ardhi108
    @ardhi10810 жыл бұрын

    This is what I'm looking for. I will have scientific presentation at International seminar next Tuesday. Thank you so much for the tutorial :-)

  • @ritvikrangaraju6994
    @ritvikrangaraju69943 жыл бұрын

    This is fantastic. Seriously, I have to give a talk at a conference in a few weeks and I didn't know where to begin. Now I'm confident that I have the tools to make it as good as possible.

  • @profLidiaRudnicka
    @profLidiaRudnicka3 жыл бұрын

    This is great! A must for every beginner- lecturer and very useful for everyone who gives talks 🏆. Thank you!

  • @satsumajuice4
    @satsumajuice410 жыл бұрын

    giving a talk at a symposium tomorrow, this really helped!

  • @Stylax32
    @Stylax324 жыл бұрын

    When talking in front of a large audience I use an inverted triangle formation. I choose 3 people.The first in the center of the front row and one on both the extreme left and extreme right of the very back row and alternate my gaze between the 3 during the presentation. Gives everyone the feeling your addressing them at some point.

  • @majidmirabolghassemi3223
    @majidmirabolghassemi322310 жыл бұрын

    Great and very helpful presentation that I have ever seen. I learn many things and at the same time I was gotten positive feeling .Thanks Dr.McConnell

  • @khalidmasoodi2812
    @khalidmasoodi28128 жыл бұрын

    A very informative talk delivered meticulously. Thank you

  • @Karatechick135
    @Karatechick1359 жыл бұрын

    thank you so much, this has been a wonderful help! I'm presenting my first ever seminar for my honours so more than a little nervous, but this has been amazing. Thank you!!

  • @bulletproofbrain8194
    @bulletproofbrain81946 жыл бұрын

    Wow, this was an amazing presentation! Thanks a lot, for all the suggestions for an effective presentation!

  • @nervousneuron
    @nervousneuron12 жыл бұрын

    This was a good talk. I like the 'data dives' suggestion and coming back to a home slide. It's almost like breaking a lecture up into parts, making it easier for someone to pay attention to the next 'data dive' even if they spaced out on a previous one. It sucks when you lose track of something, and then everything else following that point in the talk doesn't make any sense.

  • @KhalilWinner1092
    @KhalilWinner10928 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much! that was really helpful.. I'm having my first paper presentation this week and the tips in your video were really helpful.. This was one of the best presentations I've ever seen.. Really good job.,!

  • @deekshachandana1356
    @deekshachandana13565 жыл бұрын

    I'm already feeling confident about my upcoming presentation.. Thanks! :)

  • @josephgill-lussier3906
    @josephgill-lussier39062 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful smile, intelligent and practical talk!

  • @aaronslepkov5835
    @aaronslepkov58354 жыл бұрын

    Great. Assigned for my Science Communications grad course. Some particularly expert recommendations:1. Use of a Home Slide; 2. Summary slide with complex terms, acronyms and jargon to help with Q&A (!); 3. Only show what you plan to highlight or mention. Don't be lazy and the audience will appreciate your efforts.

  • @ishtiakahmed10
    @ishtiakahmed108 жыл бұрын

    This is the best presentation ever i seen and learnt about power point presentation and trully helpful to improve slides presentation. She touches all the sides of power point presentation. Thank you so much for the video

  • @amHusssein
    @amHusssein9 жыл бұрын

    Great stuff. I'm preparing presentation for my viva and this really helped. Thank you.

  • @silviadangelo6725
    @silviadangelo67259 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for sharing this video!!!! What a great help!! Many many thanks

  • @happyfelixcat
    @happyfelixcat11 жыл бұрын

    one comment about "less is more". I think a common strategy used by a lot people is that put the redundant slides after the end of the talk. In this way, if someone in the audience bring up a question that could be perfectly answered by those slide, voilà.

  • @mengzhu8385
    @mengzhu83854 жыл бұрын

    Glad to find out this video before my graduation presentation!

  • @Indrux7
    @Indrux74 жыл бұрын

    This video is pure gold! Thanks!!

  • @alekseiegorov9857
    @alekseiegorov9857 Жыл бұрын

    Amaizing presentation about presentations! Thank you!

  • @jjsanchez2
    @jjsanchez23 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this video! I redesigned my talk after watching your video, I thought it was very helpful!

  • @nenengwindaz8054
    @nenengwindaz80543 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much Susan, best presentation i ever had!

  • @suyashsawale9508
    @suyashsawale95083 жыл бұрын

    Very helpful and insightful presentation. Thank you.

  • @kevinwalkingPH
    @kevinwalkingPH9 жыл бұрын

    I'm looking for videos to help me on a presentation for October and this video had been really helpful. Thanks!

  • @shbt2011
    @shbt20114 жыл бұрын

    This is so helpful, my advisor made us watch the whole video :( , but we still liked it. Also, I think it's a good video to watch when tripping.

  • @christinawicker190

    @christinawicker190

    4 жыл бұрын

    a fantastic talk

  • @JeSuisNo_one247

    @JeSuisNo_one247

    3 жыл бұрын

    You are definitely correct

  • @sayankundu2978
    @sayankundu29784 жыл бұрын

    I really want to convey my respectful thanks for teaching us the presentation style....May I request iBiology to make some more video on the topic

  • @jinwookim1022
    @jinwookim10222 жыл бұрын

    This is just what I want to learn. It would be greatly helpful. Thank you very much!

  • @TeachTheGeek
    @TeachTheGeek2 жыл бұрын

    When practicing the presentation, time it so you don't go over the allotted time. If you're given 15 minutes to present, practice so you finish at 14 minutes. Inevitably, you'll adlib when you actually present. You've given yourself a 1 minute buffer so you'll still finish within time.

  • @dhruvmulmule3618
    @dhruvmulmule36188 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! this video was really helpful.

  • @hongjieyan6342
    @hongjieyan63429 жыл бұрын

    it is very helpful , thank you so much for your tips

  • @forzakazakh
    @forzakazakh9 жыл бұрын

    This is so useful!Thank you so much!

  • @Shihy52x
    @Shihy52x8 жыл бұрын

    I have to say that she is an expert

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    @vidhyabangar726

    2 жыл бұрын

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    2 жыл бұрын

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    2 жыл бұрын

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    2 жыл бұрын

  • @wienvasp
    @wienvasp11 жыл бұрын

    This talk is really informative and helpful. Great Thanks!

  • @thomasmccormack9136
    @thomasmccormack91365 жыл бұрын

    It would be really great if some examples of PPTs from actual presentations were uploaded here.

  • @zeinabousaid8217
    @zeinabousaid82176 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this, just what i was looking for

  • @SpadeTheCat
    @SpadeTheCat6 жыл бұрын

    "You're probably tuning into this talk because you're interested in improving your speaking skill." Nah, I just gotta watch this for class.

  • @fasogoss
    @fasogoss4 жыл бұрын

    If you watch this till the end , then you should understand she is and expert and got all your attention.

  • @user-kn9lv9xv2t
    @user-kn9lv9xv2t8 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for really helpful tips!!

  • @user-qu5jy3ki2b
    @user-qu5jy3ki2b3 жыл бұрын

    A perfect lecture, Thanks.

  • @michaelrishot1839
    @michaelrishot18394 жыл бұрын

    It is good sometimes, to understand how to simplify complex things (that's simplify not double talk) so that people understand clearly how things are.

  • @s1spencer19
    @s1spencer198 жыл бұрын

    This is incredibly useful! I have sent your video to all of my trainees and have changed my own talks with your advice in mind. Thanks so much!

  • @irasciblelad

    @irasciblelad

    7 жыл бұрын

    Melissa Spencer hey! I want to make a request here. Can you email me this talk at shahjahan.masud@hotmail.com. I can't Download it as I am in China (isolated from outside world) . Thanks

  • @scicommlab

    @scicommlab

    7 жыл бұрын

    You can download the video from the website - let us know if this works for you: www.ibiology.org/ibioseminars/techniques/susan-mcconnell-part-1.html

  • @irasciblelad

    @irasciblelad

    7 жыл бұрын

    iBiology yes I have download it. Thanks

  • @drrakeebahmad8736

    @drrakeebahmad8736

    5 жыл бұрын

    Your sincere acknowledgement ensures that you are pure hearted soul...

  • @drrakeebahmad8736
    @drrakeebahmad87363 жыл бұрын

    Great to listen this professional talk...

  • @GagaSoshified
    @GagaSoshified12 жыл бұрын

    this is great!! thank you so much!! appreciate it a lot!

  • @AhmedAdelSaleh
    @AhmedAdelSaleh11 жыл бұрын

    Great video Thank you Dr.McConnell

  • @miao4813
    @miao48133 жыл бұрын

    It is quite helpful, Thanks for your advices!

  • @teresating3111
    @teresating31119 жыл бұрын

    Thank-you for such an effective presentation on presentations! You have covered all the points I would have myself, and now I will only need to have the students (non English speaking PhDs) watch this video, do some followup tasks and then we can move forward more efficiently. Thanks!

  • @md.shirajurrahman6314
    @md.shirajurrahman631410 жыл бұрын

    Great job... very nice to hear...& thank you...

  • @NHEdit-vh9yq
    @NHEdit-vh9yq8 жыл бұрын

    Thank you and much appreciated. I hope move inspiring videos from you in the future. By having this might give impact for my final year project. wish me luck.:)

  • @sysvrev0
    @sysvrev09 жыл бұрын

    Wow. Great stuff! Thanks.

  • @yunfeiwang7415
    @yunfeiwang74152 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much! It's pretty helpful before my prospectus!

  • @Daioos
    @Daioos3 жыл бұрын

    this video helped a lot ! thank you

  • @MissHannahIBanana
    @MissHannahIBanana6 жыл бұрын

    "Did I remember to load that gel" , this is too accurate.

  • @wenbinyang1689
    @wenbinyang16893 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful presentation on how to give a presentation

  • @user-nf6ml5oy3g
    @user-nf6ml5oy3g8 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! It's really helpful!

  • @nirmalkukreja7901
    @nirmalkukreja79012 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for your advice mam. It was really helpful. My presentation went a lot better with your sugestions. I knew how to began and how to end it.

  • @fabriziofrancomorris3410
    @fabriziofrancomorris3410 Жыл бұрын

    This has been so helpful, thank you

  • @DrorProductiones
    @DrorProductiones2 жыл бұрын

    Amazing video realy helpful thank you!

  • @yueyu2403
    @yueyu24033 жыл бұрын

    Wow she is so good! Thanks for all the tips

  • @zeinabahmadian9282
    @zeinabahmadian92822 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, it was wonderful.

  • @shiladri007
    @shiladri0077 жыл бұрын

    This is quite brilliant!

  • @9208310602
    @920831060213 жыл бұрын

    gr8 video...helped me a lot...thanx Susan !

  • @NahtanN-jj9lc
    @NahtanN-jj9lc4 жыл бұрын

    You're amazing, thanks a million

  • @fat_cat_s2
    @fat_cat_s22 жыл бұрын

    Very helpful presentation! I really appreciate it a lot. I got lots of tips here and could successfully have a good presentation for my intern work 3 months ago

  • @kevinvientianelaos

    @kevinvientianelaos

    Жыл бұрын

    What are the tips you can tell?

  • @pornpimonek-eudomsuk3741
    @pornpimonek-eudomsuk37419 жыл бұрын

    very helpful advice, thk so much : )

  • @user-vm4uw6vc6h
    @user-vm4uw6vc6h2 жыл бұрын

    Very very helpful, thank you!

  • @DownloadVLC
    @DownloadVLC10 жыл бұрын

    Great ideas to doing a scientific presentation.

  • @elahehemamgholizadeh3948
    @elahehemamgholizadeh39483 ай бұрын

    It was really great video!

  • @dominickchoi813
    @dominickchoi81312 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much... this is very informative

  • @wgcvirtual
    @wgcvirtual7 жыл бұрын

    Amazing presentation. I'd like to know which softwares were used to unify powerpoint with the video image of the presenter in one single screen. I noticed the presenter was apparently looking at a screen on her right side, so she could be sure exactly where to indicate on the screen in order to, at the end, look like she really had a powerpoint screen behind her.

  • @alacatooo

    @alacatooo

    2 жыл бұрын

    Probably just a. Green screen

  • @user-gn7fp9xm5t
    @user-gn7fp9xm5t11 жыл бұрын

    Helps a lot. Thank u very much!!!

  • @elMARABIYOCHO1989
    @elMARABIYOCHO19893 жыл бұрын

    This is extremely helpful.

  • @AurobindVidyarthi
    @AurobindVidyarthi5 жыл бұрын

    Amazing Tips..!!

  • @permanentcynthia
    @permanentcynthia9 жыл бұрын

    this is extremely useful!

  • @asst.prof.drrafa3261
    @asst.prof.drrafa32618 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for such wonderful prsentation

  • @masio2605
    @masio26055 жыл бұрын

    I wish this was an obligatory presentation to watch by everyone in STEM. How pretty the life would become? :) Hehe. No more talks where you just sit agitated because you cannot follow the speaker most of the time.

  • @somon90
    @somon909 жыл бұрын

    This presentation was quite good, from a presentation standpoint. From a design standpoint some things could be added: Comic sans is a badly designed ineffective font that doesn't work well when anti-aliased, please don't use it, people in the audience will loath your presentation if you use it. Limit yourself to one, at max two fonts; this applies to figures to. Many fonts will distract the viewer and look bad. No boxes, don't put boxes around figures, images or text, it serves no purpose and just makes the presentation look bad You absolutely don't have to limit your text colour to blue and black, I would avoid primary colours and go for darker tones. For light backgrounds and lighter tones for dark backgrounds, use adobe kuler to check contrasts. Limit your colour use, two or three colours is enough, try to apply this to figures, this might be hard in some figures, avoid primary colours and use adobe kuler to find nice complementary colour selections. A nicely designed presentation will make it more memorable and will make people pay more attention, a effective presentation need not be ugly.

  • @darioc.ramirezphdmsc2684
    @darioc.ramirezphdmsc268412 жыл бұрын

    Is this presentation subtitled in Spanish? Excellent and useful talk

  • @CarlinhosMongoose
    @CarlinhosMongoose12 жыл бұрын

    Thanks very much, very helpful. However, I'd just like to remeber that besides PowerPoint and KeyNote, there's also Beamer for Ubuntu people.

  • @mariarevelesmiranda6409
    @mariarevelesmiranda64098 жыл бұрын

    Oh, is great.. Thank you so much

  • @joeyzalman8254
    @joeyzalman82542 жыл бұрын

    very clear thank you!

  • @yating1112
    @yating111210 жыл бұрын

    it is really helpful for me, thanks!!

  • @dxtulip3288
    @dxtulip328810 жыл бұрын

    thank you very much!

  • @hanyue6436
    @hanyue643611 жыл бұрын

    fantastic talk forever

  • @hewa984
    @hewa98410 жыл бұрын

    very nice presentation

  • @amanrayat4411
    @amanrayat44113 жыл бұрын

    Really informative 👏

  • @RiddlerBel
    @RiddlerBel2 жыл бұрын

    Also: (1) going on and on about trivia; (2): assuming that the listeners are little children; (3): putting the performance before the content.

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