Notes on presenting

• Whole bunch of notes here, some of which are relevant to in-person presentation (i.e. computer settings).

• Create a demo student account for each quarter, to avoid having old stale repositories messing things up.

• Set the default editor and terminal font size to something huge, e.g. 24 or 36.

• Turn on Line Wrap.

• Use the browser zoom for the app preview. Zoom twice as much as you think you need to.

• Zoom in and out (on Mac) but keep in mind that if you do it too much it can be jarring. Only do it for emphasis, or on very small UI elements. You shouldn't need to constantly Ctrl+scroll in for legibility of main text/code. Use default font sizes and/or switch to smaller resolutions so that the baseline is legible.

• Set up a Screenflow keyboard shortcut for "Add markers" to make post-processing easier.

• Start the recording a few minutes early so you don't forget. Trim it later.

• Answering questions:

  • "Oh, good question!"

  • Try to reframe it to make sure you got it right. Help students frame their own questions.

  • Never get defensive.

  • "If I understood correctly, ..."

  • "Did that help?" "How does that sound?"

  • Defer if out of scope

• Consider Keycastr to head off "what was that keyboard shortcut?" questions.