I wish I'd seen this session too – too many good things to go to. I'm a bit nervous about blanket 'Power corrupts, Powerpoint corrupts absolutely' types of mantra. As a rule of thumb, 'don't use Powerpoint' is better than 'Tell your audience what you're going to tell them, show them in Powerpoint, tell them while you're showing them, then give them a slide summarising what you've told them and read that slide out.' And I've certainly been guilty of bad animation choices, too. But I've also used animation to, say, build up layers on an otherwise over-complex graphic, or...
Absolutely. There are no hard and fast rules about this. Slideware can be really useful. Hell we used video and slides extensively in the session. I guess it's about recognising when it actually adds something. My main idea was this. Think about your slides as another kind of visual aid, a prop a really heavy and bloody awkward prop. Do you really want to carry it on the train to your meeting? Is what it adds that valuable that you'ld be prepared to lug something like a giant paperclip costume on the tube? If the answer is yes and you're...
Powerpoint pledge - if powerpoint is defined a a bunch of slides with tedious bullet points then yes, I'll sign up to that. But as a resource through which I can enhance a discussion with visuals, video and other odds and ends then I'll keep using it. There are lots of bad exanples out there from so called experts at presentations. Four words bad, two pictures good....
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