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I love speaking and especially love speaking from minimalist slides. I'll have whole chunks of the presentation where the slide is just black for a few minutes,

I love speaking and especially love speaking from minimalist slides. I'll have whole chunks of the presentation where the slide is just black for a few minutes, because I want to be sure the focus is on the storytelling, not the shiny digital thing. If you've got more than a handful of words on your slide, there's a huge chance you're just doing it wrong. If you've got a paragraph or more up there, you're just wasting everyone's time. Better suited as a book at that point, right? Also, oldie but goodie. Nothing beats Norvig's rendition of the Gettysburg Address in PowerPoint: http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm

llogiq 16y ago
The Gettysburg presentation, a true classic. :-) As they say, Power corrupts, but PowerPoint corrupts absolutely. I also really appreciate the minimalist style. After having seen a few presentations by Lawrence Lessig and others with similar style, I started to copy it, but with less slides (mostly because I am too lazy or have too little to say for the machine-gun-25-slides-per-seconds style).
zem 16y ago
you might like the takahashi method http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/09/living_large_ta.html http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/09/liv...