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I agree that slides should not be the whole story. Whats the point of having slides if the speaker is basically reading them? Whats the point of the speaker if
by dkersten 14y ago
I agree that slides should not be the whole story. Whats the point of having slides if the speaker is basically reading them? Whats the point of the speaker if the slides contain everything that is being said?
On the other hand, I do love when slides act as a brief summary of the talk because I often don't want to spend 45 minutes to listen to a talk when all I want is a summary or if I don't yet know if the talk is interesting to me, or if I can't watch a video right now for whatever reason and want to know if I should bookmark it for later. But thats not the real reason I like slides to be made available.
The biggest reason of all for you to put your slides online is that I have seen countless videos of talks where the slides are unreadable (too small, too blurry, too low resolution - whatever) or the camera focused completely on the speaker and never showed the slides at all. Not all videos make the slides available (eg if its on vimeo or youtube, rather than something like infoq) - in these cases, often the video is worthless unless the speaker makes the slides available on their website.
- jamessocol 14y agoThat's totally fair. With the types of slides I try to make, they're usually legible on the video, but if they aren't, and there is video to accompany them, I'd be happy to share. The point is just getting the whole story, together. And, personally, I prefer something like a blog post because I can read faster than I can listen to the whole talk. Even if I miss out on some of the funny or other moments.
- dkersten 14y agoAs long as the slides are legible, then thats perfectly fine. My concern there is really the same as yours: to get the whole story together.