I have done a talk on Navigating the National Archives Website, which I like to present live, but, like you, I have concerns for internet connection and performance. To cover that, I prepared a substitute consisting of screen shots with little in the way of other explanatory shots, giving the explanation verbally and on my handout -- the largest handout I have for any of my talks. I found that the screen shots themselves contain a large amount of information, and it really isn't necessary to intersperse explanatory slides. As you have guessed, going over it (and over it and over it) before presenting is a must, to avoid wasted steps during presentation. I go slow, and pause frequently to ask for questions, because the National Archives website is extraordinarily complex, and so is my talk! Breaking down the presentation into sections that are more manageable also helps not make it overwhelming for the audience. I have had to completely re-do the presentation a time or two, because of changes NARA makes in the website. Another thing I might do if I ever present that particular talk again, is to provide a couple sheets of lined paper with the handout, for notes! Karen Packard Rhodes, Middleburg, Clay County, Florida On 9/26/2016 11:08 PM, Patricia Hobbs wrote: > I will be doing a presentation on the unindexed FamilySearch databases for > our local library. I've been really excited about doing this presentation, > but then I got to thinking about the jillions of screen shots I'll be doing > if I don't do it live. I'd love to do it live, but I know that I run the > risk of the internet either being out or being slow. Even if I did it live, > I would walk through every step beforehand to make sure that I could > minimize wasted steps in jumping around the images. > > Any words of wisdom from anyone who has done this before? My third thought > on the matter was that even though I would have to do a lot of screen shots > the verbiage to go with is pretty minimal. > > Patti > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >