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Marcin KasperskiThe second you dim the lights and go into "presentation mode" is the moment you move from a two-way conversation to a one-way lecture/broadcast. It's hard to be interactive when you're behind your laptop, at a podium, watching your slides on the small scr
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They don't call them "bullet points" for nothing...
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The "Do My Slides Suck" Test
1) Do your slides contain mostly bullet points?
2) Do you have more than 12-15 words on a slide?
3) Do your slides add little or no new info beyond what you can say in words?
4) Are your slides, in fact, not memorable?
5) Are your slides emotionally empty?
6) Do your slides fail to encourage a deeper connection to or understanding of the topic?
7) Do your slides distort the data? (That's a whooooole different thing I'm not addressing now)
8) Do your slides encourage cognitive weakness? (refer to Tufte)
A "Yes" to any of those could be a huge red flag that something's wrong.
If you're still committed to slides, or if you're certain you need them, here's my favorite overall recommendation:
Put each slide on trial for its life. Ask it to defend itself. Show no mercy.
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H. HampsonCreating a better (than bad!) presentation... using PowerPoint
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Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users (via lifehack.org) takes aim at bad presentation slides: Sometimes the best presentation is... no presentation. Ditch the slides completely
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j wintherPut each slide on trial for its life. Ask it to defend itself. Show no mercy. Make it beg, make it plead, make it sell itself.
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David MuirSometimes the best presentation is... no presentation. Ditch the slides completely. Put the projector in the closet, roll the screen back up, and turn the damn lights back on!
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Sometimes the best presentation is... no presentation. Ditch the slides completely. Put the projector in the closet, roll the screen back up, and turn the damn lights back on!
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