https://blog.rkempe.ca/series/public-speaking-advice/ Recent content in Public Speaking Advice on rkempe’s blog Hugo en-ca &copy; Copyright 2026 Rebecca Kempe Wed, 08 Oct 2025 21:19:23 -0400 https://blog.rkempe.ca/posts/2025/10/why-do-my-presentations-suck-and-related-questions/ Wed, 08 Oct 2025 21:19:23 -0400 https://blog.rkempe.ca/posts/2025/10/why-do-my-presentations-suck-and-related-questions/ <p>Look, I’ve watched so many terrible presentations at this point that I couldn’t put off writing this anymore, so here, have this imagined Q&amp;A. If you feel attacked by any of these questions, I’m sorry. I’m nicer in real life, I promise. In my defence, this post was meant to be sort of tongue in cheek, and it’s not targeted at anyone in particular.</p> <p>If you want straight advice (read: you don’t want to wade through the sarcasm), I have other posts about this topic, which you can read <a href="https://blog.rkempe.ca/series/public-speaking-advice/">here</a>.</p> https://blog.rkempe.ca/posts/2025/06/what-doing-my-first-short-math-lecture-taught-me/ Sun, 29 Jun 2025 13:02:46 -0400 https://blog.rkempe.ca/posts/2025/06/what-doing-my-first-short-math-lecture-taught-me/ For context, these are some things I learned in the process of putting together and delivering a guest lecture to a first-year discrete math course last summer. The talk was about the research I was doing at the time, and I was allotted about half an hour for the presentation. Again, I meant to write and post this last year, but clearly that didn’t happen.