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Reading text on slides and listening in parallel is hard to the point of annoyance and losing interest in the talk. I was always wondering why everyone keeps ma
by mojuba 17y ago
Reading text on slides and listening in parallel is hard to the point of annoyance and losing interest in the talk. I was always wondering why everyone keeps making the same mistake in their public talks and presentations. So, finally someone said that.
PowerPoint is, I think, a tool for helping otherwise impotent speakers look good. The final result though is the same: just bad speech, poor concepts poorly delivered to the audience.
- dkersten 17y agoThe best presentations I've witnessed worked like this: The slides contained only diagrams and SHORT bullet point summaries. No wall of text or anything boring, tedious or annoying to read. Also, the slides shouldn't mirror whats being said, thats boring and redundant. They should summerise though, so that I can glance at the slide and know whats going to (or has been) talked about. This aids me to focus, or to tune out parts that are irrelevant to me. Also, when looking at slides later, it helps as a memory aid for what the talk was about.