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I dig this presentation in pieces, but it's a bit noisy and pretentious. Why is it that so many people are trying to tell me how to present my information? I
by nhangen 16y ago
I dig this presentation in pieces, but it's a bit noisy and pretentious.
Why is it that so many people are trying to tell me how to present my information?
I do use images as recommended, and find that they make great cues for telling stories and fleshing out the idea, but come on...are bullet points really that bad?
- hrabago 16y agoI think the problem has been the overuse of bullet points. I'm sure there are times when they are appropriate, such as when these slides listed what CRAP means, but in most cases I've seen, the information would have presented better with an alternative format. The last few presentations I myself have given tended to follow the Lessig style, so instead of bulleted lists, I've presented each item in its own slide. This allowed me to bring the audience's focus on the one thing I'm discussing at the moment, instead of wandering off into what the other items are/could be and how they relate to or contrast with each other. I read somewhere of the backlash against Powerpoint in the military, and the primary reason stated was the overuse of bulleted lists. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html
- nhangen 16y agoComing from 5 years in the Army, I can attest to what they call - "Death by Powerpoint." It's not just the bullets, but the use of templates that suck, formats that suck, and well...information that sucks. Perhaps it's not the bullets that kill, but the animated ones :)