[Hidden-tech] Post Powerpoint

[Tish Grier]

Presentation Zen (the book) has some great suggestions on how to help organize a presentation--like writing it out before developing it in PPT.  That's been super-helpful to me.  

IMO, it's not necessarily the presentation itself--PowerPoint or not--that's the problem inasumchas it is both boring material and a boring presenter.  Even if you have boring material, if you have a presenter who loves to "work a crowd" (so to say) even the most boring info can be great fun.

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From: Mark Firehammer <Mark at techeffective.net>
To: Craig Sinclair <media at actvamherst.com>; Hidden-Tech Tech <Hidden-discuss at mm01.tnrnet.com>
Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 9:43:47 AM
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On the subject of a different paradigm for presentations, I 
highly recommend the website http://www.presentationzen.com/ and 
the book, "Presentation 
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
To: Hidden-Tech Tech
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?currentPage=all
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