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Presenting stuff/ideas. I kind of have established my own powerpoint style over the years and seek to further improve my presentation skills. Happy for any good

Presenting stuff/ideas. I kind of have established my own powerpoint style over the years and seek to further improve my presentation skills. Happy for any good advice. ps.: and i despise pp

mbork_pl 3y ago
Try LaTeX with Beamer and/or reveal.js. (Also, Beamer's manual is full of good advice on presentations irrespective of the tool you use.)
- HellDunkel 3y ago
  Thx. I use LaTex occasionally but have to stick with pp. Looking to improve my non technical communication skills.
  - mbork_pl 3y ago
    That's why I mentioned Beamer's docs. There is a very good tool-agnostic chapter in them.
    - HellDunkel 3y ago
      Looked it up. You mean the chapter „Guidelines for Creating Presentation“?
      - mbork_pl 3y ago
        Yes. It's full of wisdom and humor. ;-) I loved especially this gem: > Never, ever reuse a paper abstract for a presentation, except if the abstract is “We show P = NP” or “We show P ≠ NP”.
  - treffer 3y ago
    The beamer package manual had nice hints, like ~1 page just about font size. With statements like > In beamer, the default sizes of the fonts are chosen in a way that makes it difficult to fit “too much” onto a slide. Many of the ideas apply outside of latex/beamer. It's one of the better free documents about the technical aspects of slides. At least if the presentation is still driven by content on the slides, but that decision is a whole different story.
- ewuhic 3y ago
  Any chance to achieve similar results with goold old (new) PowerPoint?
- Aerbil313 3y ago
  Typst with Polylux (inspired by Beamer) is a nice alternative.
rramadass 3y ago
You might find the following useful : Visual Understanding Environment - https://vue.tufts.edu/ https://vue.tufts.edu/ Came across this in another thread recently - https://quarto.org/ https://quarto.org/
cromulent 3y ago
You've probably seen Seth Godin's Really Bad Powerpoint from 20+ years ago, but just in case: https://public.wsu.edu/~bryanfry/Really%20Bad%20PPTs.pdf https://public.wsu.edu/~bryanfry/Really%20Bad%20PPTs.pdf

Presenting stuff/ideas. I kind of have established my own powerpoint style over the years and seek to further improve my presentation skills. Happy for any good advice. ps.: and i despise pp

mbork_pl 3y ago

Try LaTeX with Beamer and/or reveal.js. (Also, Beamer's manual is full of good advice on presentations irrespective of the tool you use.)

HellDunkel 3y ago
Thx. I use LaTex occasionally but have to stick with pp. Looking to improve my non technical communication skills.
- mbork_pl 3y ago
  That's why I mentioned Beamer's docs. There is a very good tool-agnostic chapter in them.
  - HellDunkel 3y ago
    Looked it up. You mean the chapter „Guidelines for Creating Presentation“?
    - mbork_pl 3y ago
      Yes. It's full of wisdom and humor. ;-) I loved especially this gem: > Never, ever reuse a paper abstract for a presentation, except if the abstract is “We show P = NP” or “We show P ≠ NP”.
- treffer 3y ago
  The beamer package manual had nice hints, like ~1 page just about font size. With statements like > In beamer, the default sizes of the fonts are chosen in a way that makes it difficult to fit “too much” onto a slide. Many of the ideas apply outside of latex/beamer. It's one of the better free documents about the technical aspects of slides. At least if the presentation is still driven by content on the slides, but that decision is a whole different story.
ewuhic 3y ago
Any chance to achieve similar results with goold old (new) PowerPoint?
Aerbil313 3y ago
Typst with Polylux (inspired by Beamer) is a nice alternative.

rramadass 3y ago

You might find the following useful : Visual Understanding Environment - https://vue.tufts.edu/ https://vue.tufts.edu/ Came across this in another thread recently - https://quarto.org/ https://quarto.org/

cromulent 3y ago

You've probably seen Seth Godin's Really Bad Powerpoint from 20+ years ago, but just in case: https://public.wsu.edu/~bryanfry/Really%20Bad%20PPTs.pdf https://public.wsu.edu/~bryanfry/Really%20Bad%20PPTs.pdf