At 04:49 2009-08-20, David Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>Amen to that! I find powerpoint to typically be a shield for people who
>don't know their product to hide behind, and almost nothing in the world
>slows down a meeting like some well intentioned idiots decision that
>everyone would benefit from a slideshow to reinforce what they are telling
>me. There have been many, many reps that I have completely thrown off their
Bah! It has been required in courses that I have taken. I
think that giving presentations should be required far more than they
are, but limiting -- and I use the word "limiting" with full and due
consideration -- the presenter to having to use PowerPoint is evil.
>game by telling them they may not show me their PP presentation, but rather
>sit with me and tell me about their services, let me ask questions, and so
>on. PP is a crutch that a professional doesn't need.
Bwahaha!
I was a member of Toastmasters International for about five
years. I can give a speech easily. A PowerPoint presentation is
typically horrid. I have had to give them in some of my computing
courses. The next time it happens, I am going to argue against them.
In the projects course that I took, I had a misunderstanding of
what the final presentation was supposed to be. I had thought it was
to be technical; it was not. I came up with an appropriate
presentation on the fly. My instructor said that he was very
impressed that I was able to do so.
For me, it is very easy. I can organise material into a speech
in seconds. It may well not be the most inspiring, but it does get
the job done. If it is necessary to change tack, I can do it
easily. PowerPoint presentations take way too long to prepare and
are a straitjacket.
PowerPoint gets skewered but good:
The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation
http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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