Illustrated Presentations

I am down do present a talk to my local history group. I have done presentations in the past but they had not been designed to fit into a specific time frame. The time allocated for talks is 45 minutes. I have read that the average adult can say approximately 183 words a minute. By my calculations, that works out at roughly 8000 words over 45 minutes.

Does anyone have any experience to know if that makes sense. Any help or advice would be appreciated

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pjgirl · 22-25, F

I have given presentations like this for studies. I have found about 25 slides will fill about 45 - 50 minutes. I have pictures with bullet points alongside them, then the slides printed out with more - clear - notes written to remind me further. The best thing to do is to rehearse it out loud, walking around your room.
If it is completely scripted you have that security if you get anxious, but it will lose some of its flow.

Anniedlr · 26-30, F

@pjgirl Yep I always rehearse it a couple of times🙂🙂. My last talk was on the part played by Soviet Women at the front in WW2🙂🙂🙂