What cheeses me off

[anat0l]

A speaker at a lecture who should know better:

* ignores the microphone

* Sides full of tiny text “I'm not got to read all this” … and the proceeds to do so

* goes the wrong way with his slides and doesn’t notice and speaks to the wrong one

* keeps speaking to the wrong slides in spite of keeping looking at the screen.

* far, far too much content. He knows the length of time he has, and ‘miscalculates’ by 30%. I can’t leave because I’m an organiser.

Ah yes, the old school indulgent speaker.

Of course, my prejudice could be way off. We rarely see oral presentations as a form of assessment in schools these days, and the few that remain appear to be a terrifying prospect to all of my students.

Also happens to many academics who aren't used to speaking to a varied audience (non-academics included). No one really wants to see the system of 50 equations you developed to simulate this problem.

 

[RooFlyer]

Still going. Took the opportunity of a question to tell 3 more (long) ‘stories’.

 

[VPS]

I may have in the past gone up on to the stage after the speaker ignored all the wind it up notices and stood next to him and physically gently nudged him to the side of the stage (I knew him very well and so did most of the audience)