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Subject: [Leica] How many pictures for 1-hour presentation?
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:29:32 -0800
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On Feb 22, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Daniel Ridings wrote:

> In a normal slide presentation I usually tell my students that if they
> think they can talk about a slide in less than 2 minutes, then they're
> rushing it. If the number of slides x 2 minutes is longer than their
> time slot, then it's time to revise the presentation.
> 
> I would think that pictures would work out somewhere around the same.


the worst thing is to try to put in too much....

I agree with Daniel, figure ~2 minutes for each photo...

have fun, make it fun for them...

Steve
> 
> Daniel
> 
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> 
> wrote:
>> I've been asked to give a presentation at work on my trip to Israel.  Many
>> of you have seen the photos I have to choose from. Does anyone have a rule
>> of thumb about how many photos can be reasonably shown in a 50-minute
>> presentation?  I'll be narrating, and obviously some pictures will have a
>> very quick narration, some more.  Q&A at the end will be additional time
>> beyond the 50 minutes.
>> 
>> I'll be using the web-sized images I've posted on the LUG, with a 1024x768
>> projector. I did a test run last week, and found that Irfanview in
>> full-screen mode works nicely without the ghastly resizing that PowerPoint
>> does. I can interpolate a few maps and titles by file-naming them so they
>> display in the right order.
>> 
>> --Peter
>> 
>> 
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In reply to: Message from pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein) ([Leica] How many pictures for 1-hour presentation?)
Message from daniel at dlridings.se (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] How many pictures for 1-hour presentation?)