[Hidden-tech] Post Powerpoint

Mark Firehammer Mark at techeffective.net
Thu Dec 17 09:43:47 EST 2009


On the subject of a different paradigm for presentations, I highly recommend
the website http://www.presentationzen.com/ and the book, "Presentation
<http://www.amazon.com/Presentation-S-O-S-Persuasion-Easy-Steps/dp/188328372
8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261060712&sr=8-1> SOS" by Mark Wiskup
The book is 177 pages and  a quick easy read/reference guide to avoiding
what makes so many presentations so poor!
 
Happy presenting!
Mark
 

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[mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Craig
Sinclair
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:33 PM
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Subject: [Hidden-tech] Post Powerpoint



<<I just read all the H-T thoughts on PowerPoint, spurred some of my own on
a different tilt>>

Hey Everyone

I've never been a fan of PowerPoint or its ilk, but then Ive never
especially liked the idea of lecturing with slides, perhaps more because of
the way people do this rather than the technology itself.  To whit, at one
teaching workshop I went to we were given handouts -that duplicated the
overhead projection- and then lectured t. The first bullet point on the
handout detailed the worst way to teach: "Handouts and Lecturing" 

As this mode of address is so prevalent maybe we can all try our best to
wrest it back and make it more innovative and involving.  This may be why
Pecha Kucha and the Ignite Talks are so popular. I was lucky enough to
present at Ignite Amherst and it felt rather like PowerPoint performance art
(both as presenter and audience member), partly because of the concept, but
then that concept is largely to loosen up the perceived rules of PowerPoint
address.

As with many cases in the technological world humans are not always the
active agent; does a person always use a tool or does the tool sometimes use
the person?  This could be because of inclination, training, understanding,
time etc., but it can also be just an accepted ubiquity in the face of doing
something more revolutionary or interesting.

I hope some more of you will be able to join in the next Ignite Talks to
show how you have challenged the PowerPoint paradigm.

Cheers

Craig

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Ian Parkers intriguing New Yorker article on PowerPoint:
<http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/05/28/010528fa_fact_parker?currentPag
e=all>
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/05/28/010528fa_fact_parker?currentPage
=all

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