I have heard good things about this session, but missed it, sadly. Did you end up with any 'top tips' for us? Speaking as someone who avoids Powerpoint in order to miss falling into the murky chasms of dreadfulness, some pointers would be good. Also, is the video available anywhere? I heard it was great....
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...
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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