Give the guy a break. It's Lecture 1, I'd imagine he was nervous.
That said, the content is strong and for the desired audience it is all probably novel, besides the fact that this was day 1 of a new course.
When I thought about it more though, it seems like the idea of the class is more of a lecture series style than traditional instruction anyway.
The content is great and communicated well.
Some people prefer making presentations having only some general idea of what they are going to say before hand. Other people spend a good deal of time thinking about exactly what they want to say and how they want to say it. Both presentation styles are perfectly valid.
Where did the parent claim that this was an 'invalid' presentation style?
I hate it when speakers "over engage" and keep throwing in jokes, personal anecdotes, rhetorical questions, funny slides etc. in a perceived need to keep people's attention. If a presentation's worth listening to, the content (delivered in a friendly and relaxed way) should be all that's needed to keep an audience engaged. If some people haven't got the attention span for that, it's usually their problem not the speaker's.
Lastly, given that this will be so broadly distributed, I totally get the need to be on message so it may make sense to read in this scenario.
I agree that content is king, but the one reason why we attend to classes, events and speeches is to see a great delivery of the content being presented. If not, better handle the written version by email and be done with it.
I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs wouldn't be remembered by his presentation skills if he read the whole thing. That's also not the reason why I remember my physics teacher from 10 years ago.
Let's see how today's goes..
I think the visual indication plays a huge part in the perception.
I thought he did a good job. Usually I hate watching a video presentation if there's copy of the text to read. It's way more efficient to read the content than to watch most videos and then set the speed to 4x.