Things to Avoid in a Scholarly Presentation

I just saw this great post by Kevin Wilson over at Blue Cord. He lists several recommendations for things not to do in an academic presentation, including annoying gestures and rattling off long passages in Hebrew. I especially liked his injunction against prefacing a paper by reporting that it is part of longer project (and thus your presentation cannot be fairly critiqued by the audience, natch). I would add that none of the following things passes for intelligence or wit: reading your paper very fast, speaking with a high tone of sarcasm about theology or politics that you don’t like, and triumphantly dismantling the scholarship of your teacher’s generation.