On 2015-05-16, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote:
> OT for here, but one of my major gripes, presentations with slides.
>
> The audience has only got a limited cognitive capability, put up
> complex slides and they stop listening to what you are saying.
And if you hand out hardcopy ahead of at the beginning, half of them
will ignore you completely for minutes at a time while they "read
ahead". Then they'll occasionally look up and ask questions that you
have _already_answered_ while they were busy reading a different
slide. And you're not allowed to shout at them, since it's your damn
fault for giving them something to read while you wanted them to be
listening to you.
> You
> should use slides only for showing things you are talking about,
> photos, simple obvious graphs etc. And none of those need complex
> slide software. Don't use slides to repeat your words, and worst of
> all don't slide in lines as you say them, all the audience will
> remember is the condensed version on the slide, not what you actually
> said.
Remember:
Every time you create a powerpoint slide[1], Edward Tufte kills a
kitten.
[1] I don't care what toolchain you use to create/display it: It looks
like a powerpoint slide; it reads like a powerpoint slide; it acts
like a powerpoint slide. It's a powerpoint slide.
--
Grant
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