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I'd venture to say that None of those are beamer/LaTex problems. They are all exclusively at the hand of the presenter. Someone who doesn't care enough to learn
by ajford 8y ago
I'd venture to say that None of those are beamer/LaTex problems. They are all exclusively at the hand of the presenter. Someone who doesn't care enough to learn how to properly give an engaging presentation, or was never given the opportunity to do so will make those kinds of presentations.
In my undergrad Honors Physics program, I was required to attend two different workshops on giving presentations (on top of the university requirement of Speech & Comms class) and a technical writing class. Suffice to say, my beamer presentations are not identical, nor so they include "extra" slides. It doesn't take much to drop slides, so it should be easy to comment out a number of slides for a tailored presentation. That's just a lazy presenter.
- jcranmer 8y ago> I'd venture to say that None of those are beamer/LaTex problems. They are all exclusively at the hand of the presenter. My personal experience with LaTeX is that it is actually rather annoying to do anything with images, so you seek to explain stuff in text (or equations) instead of trying to develop good diagrams. For presentations, this is exactly the wrong mindset to be in. A good presentation software should nudge you, if not outright force you, to making diagrams and pictoral representation over bulleted text slides. So I suspect beamer really is contributing to the problem of bad slides by making it even more time-consuming to develop good presentations.