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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Jacko1971 · 51-55, M

@pjgirl I have done presentations before which have been loosely scripted and I have had more freedom to move around. Back then I knew my subject pretty well and I was presenting to people I had got to know over the week. We had a connection and it was great. I would love to be able to do that again.

This time I will be talking about a completely new subject to people I hardly know, if at all. I know the subject now after spending the last 6th months researching it but I have never done a formal presentation on it.

My slides are mostly portraits so they only need to be up for a few seconds each.

This is a screenshot of part of my presentation.