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Sometimes this is for pre-reading, which can help focus discussion. It's also helpful for folks who are more readers than listeners to have text to follow alon
by sdenton4 3y ago
Sometimes this is for pre-reading, which can help focus discussion.
It's also helpful for folks who are more readers than listeners to have text to follow along with on the slide.
- xg15 3y agoThey can also serve as memory anchors/reminders to people after they saw your presentation. I also like the way Maciej Ceglowski archives his presentations: Slides, with little to none text in the left, combined with a summary of the actual talk on the right. Makes it extremely easy to retrace the talk from the archives and even get all the jokes and rethorical devices from the original presentation. Example: https://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm https://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm (Imagine if he was just giving away the slides on the left without any text, it would basically be a random collection of images without any understandable meaning)
- bhpm 3y agoNobody has time to pre-read, and if they’re readers and not listeners they should not be at the meeting. They should be doing something else. The only place I ever saw people pre-read was Amazon, and that was because we printed out the document and handed it out with pens. The first 10 minutes of the meeting were laptops down reading time before the presentation.
- johnchristopher 3y agoThere are ways around that, e.g: number the slides like 1/7, 2/7, 3/7 so people roughly know where we are in the presentation, even better if you can time it, e.g: 1'/20, 3'/20, 7'20.