Breezeway Bioinformatics Training Room
18 April 2017
09:00:00 AM
Lightning Demos
An open house of short tool demos.
Suggested length: 1 hour for talk-style.
A lightning demo is a short demo of a tool or piece of code, meant to make a quick introduction to an audience so they can decide if they're interested in learning more. Get a whole bunch of these together, and you have a Lightning Demo Party or Lightning Demo Series! Try these tips for your first round of lightning demos:
Demo Series
In a lightning demo series, presenters give a series of short demos to an audience, like a series of mini-work-alongs. This is a great opportunity for new speakers to give presenting at Study Group a try; like the party format, encourage speakers to always add some research context so people know where and how the ideas presented are being used.
Aim for about 4 demos. Switching between potentially wildly different ideas in a lecture format can get exhausting for the audience after more than an hour, so keep it tight - if you have more presenters than that, consider party-style, above!
15 minutes max. These lightning demos can be a bit longer, since the audience will be seated in this format.
Breezeway Bioinformatics Training Room 18 April 2017 09:00:00 AM
Lightning Demos An open house of short tool demos. Suggested length: 1 hour for talk-style.
A lightning demo is a short demo of a tool or piece of code, meant to make a quick introduction to an audience so they can decide if they're interested in learning more. Get a whole bunch of these together, and you have a Lightning Demo Party or Lightning Demo Series! Try these tips for your first round of lightning demos:
Demo Series In a lightning demo series, presenters give a series of short demos to an audience, like a series of mini-work-alongs. This is a great opportunity for new speakers to give presenting at Study Group a try; like the party format, encourage speakers to always add some research context so people know where and how the ideas presented are being used.
Aim for about 4 demos. Switching between potentially wildly different ideas in a lecture format can get exhausting for the audience after more than an hour, so keep it tight - if you have more presenters than that, consider party-style, above!
15 minutes max. These lightning demos can be a bit longer, since the audience will be seated in this format.