• Honestly, that’s the right way to do it if you really know your stuff.

    The slides are there as a visual aid or backdrop. The “presenter notes” is where all your bulleted items and prompts for recollection go.

    Also, and this is where a lot of people get it wrong, the slide deck is NOT a useful document for distribution. It is specific to both the subject matter and speaker; it’s analogous to sheet music. A video of the presentation (e.g. TED) is far more useful as we’re really talking about a performance. At worst, there should be “references” page in some appendix, with hyperlinks to actual media that folks can digest on their own time.