Research Talk

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Research Talk

• 1 - Establish Credit
• 2 - What to say
• 3 - Instructional material
• 4 - Giving the talk

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1 - Establish Credit

• Must convince audience that you are worth
  listening to.
• First contact Moving Mt. Fuji
• (by William Poundstone)

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2 - What to say

• Who is my primary audience ?
• If someone remembers only one thing from my talk,
  what would I like it to be ?
• Use examples ? Abstract x Concrete
• Don't get carried away with details

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3 - Instructional material

• Make sure everyone can see what you are present
•  Don't crowd too much information on the screen

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4 - Giving the talk

• Speak loud enough so everyone will hear
• Make eye contact with your audience
• Don't read information directly from
  slide/paper
• Don't over-run (have extra-slides)
• Conclusion
• Provoke your audience to ask questions

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Project Specific Guidelines

• Oral Presentation Goal Show something useful to
  the class and make it interesting.
• Primary Audience class
• Written Deliverable Goal show how much you
  learned/know
• Primary Audience instructor

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All members must participate

• Participate speak. Participates ! Turn Slides
  or Turn Lights on/off.

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Suggestion of Slides

• 1) INTRODUCTION
• 2) use-case diagram (optional)
• 3) E-R DIAGRAM
• 4) RELATIONAL SCHEMA
• 5) MATRIX
• 6) DB Security Plan (if applicable)
• 7) DB Security Implementation example
• 8) SQL Queries, Code
• 9) Scheduling Chart (PERT or GANNT)
• 10) Stored procedure, triggers, ETL, etc.
• 11) Description of Connectivity Technology
• 11) Major difficulties encountered and/or
  resolved
• 12) Conclusions
• 13) Questions to Class
• Program (if applicable) can be executed anywhere
  (steps 2 10).

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Presentations

• Schedule your presentation
• Can be
• December 2, 4, 9, 11
• May be at night (must request in advance)
• December 3, 10 are also alternatives
• Should reserve by November 22.
• If an emergency, you may switch.
• Time slots are each ½ hour and granted on first
  one to request
• Can be from campus or off campus (on campus is
  recommended

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F.A.Q. To present off campus , what do I need ?

• Microphone on your computer so you can be heard.
  I prefer a web-cam also, so we can see you.
• No software is needed to remotely create a
  presentation using ePop.
• Full instructions can be found here
• http//msacs.kennesaw.edu/repository/docs/ePopLect
  uringManual.pdf
• We need to communicate with David when complete
  to provide them with an upload location.