Speaker manual

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Speaking tips

Internet Access
Wi-Fi internet access will be available during the conference, however due unpredictable performance characteristics of hotel internet connections, you should NOT plan to use a live internet connection for presentations.

You should generally use off-line rather than on-line techniques to present Internet/World Wide Web displays and dialog. Thus, for presentations (that incorporate discussion of Internet capabilities or Web sites), speakers need to capture demonstrations and illustrations they wish to use ahead of time and use off-line means to present them, rather than using real-time, on-line connections.
Two of the most practical approaches to preparing an off-line presentation are:

Capture the HTML source code directly from the Internet before the presentation. When viewing a web page of interest, select the Save As ... function from your browser. You can then save that web page on to a disk or other storage media for later viewing. To display this captured HTML source code, access a browser and then select the File Open feature and direct the browser to the appropriate file.
Another alternative is to capture the screen and import it as a file into a presentation software package, such as Microsoft PowerPoint.

To capture the screen in Windows or NT, press ALT-PrintScreen to paste the contents of the active window to the Windows Clipboard (or just PrintScreen to paste the contents of the entire desktop). Return to the blank PowerPoint slide and press Control-V or pull down the Edit menu and select Paste to paste the image from the Clipboard. The software will insert a small image of the captured screen from the web browser in the slide. Click on the image corners and drag them to fill the entire slide with the screen image. This will provide you with a static image of a web page of interest that you can display.

Preparing your slide presentation
Following are some suggestions for effective slide presentations:
Make use of the power point template that we will supply.
Limit each slide to one main idea. Do not include more than you will discuss.
Use text, photos, charts, and graphics. To ensure clarity, however, avoid using all of these on one slide.
Ensure that the entire audience can read all your slides, not just the people sitting in the front row. Generally, you can easily read slides which will project well when held up to an overhead light, while poorly legible slides require a slide viewer.
In general, use no more than five to seven lines on one slide. More than seven words per line is usually illegible. Leave space, roughly the height of a capital letter between lines.
Font sizes should range from 18 to 48 point. Use size to establish a hierarchy for headings, sub-headings, and text.
Choose one or two typefaces that are easy to read. Do not clutter your slide with too many fonts. We recommend Arial.
*Use blue or gray background rather than black or white. Your text and graphics will look better and be easier to read.
Leave blank space around charts and graphs. Text placed too close to graphs (except for labels and numbers) makes slides look cluttered.