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If you are a presenter, please please please please stop it with the “put up slide, read bullet points off the slide, repeat” format. It’s excruciating.
by sneak 2y ago
If you are a presenter, please please please please stop it with the “put up slide, read bullet points off the slide, repeat” format. It’s excruciating.
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- lnsru 2y agoThat’s probably how 80% of presentations I attended last couple years were presented. Open slide, read sentences written there, go to next slide. Not nice.
- seanhunter 2y agoThere’s an excellent essay about how Powerpoint encourages this style and how bad it is for everyone by Edward Tufte called “The Cognative Style of Powerpoint” https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/pi/2016_2017/phil/tufte-powerpoint.pdf https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/pi/2016_2017/phil/...
- layer8 2y agoYou generally need to practice a talk a lot to be able to free yourself from the slides, especially if you don’t often do talks. For a one-off talk it’s not always realistic.