Comments on: All this rubbish Powerpoint must be telling us something http://matt.me63.com/2008/05/07/all-this-rubbish-powerpoint-must-be-telling-us-something/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:14:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: tero http://matt.me63.com/2008/05/07/all-this-rubbish-powerpoint-must-be-telling-us-something/#comment-986 tero Thu, 08 May 2008 11:28:45 +0000 http://me63.wordpress.com/?p=163#comment-986 Powerpoint itself is not the culprit; it's the people who create the bad presentations. You can use Powerpoint well and really add extra value to a presentation as long as you remember you are the presentation and the slides are just there to support you (or be "the visual stimulation"). Maybe the reason for your points 3 & 4 is partially due to bad presentations and unreadable slides; people lose concentration or won't even bother turning up because the norm nowadays is that the slides & the presentation will be rubbish and it's just a waste of time to be there. I think presenters may have to create couple of different versions of their slides. One good and clear one to present with and another one with more descriptions to circulate to those remote participants before hand. The latter one could even double up as your handout at the end of the presentation if you don't have time to create separate handouts. Powerpoint itself is not the culprit; it’s the people who create the bad presentations. You can use Powerpoint well and really add extra value to a presentation as long as you remember you are the presentation and the slides are just there to support you (or be “the visual stimulation”).

Maybe the reason for your points 3 & 4 is partially due to bad presentations and unreadable slides; people lose concentration or won’t even bother turning up because the norm nowadays is that the slides & the presentation will be rubbish and it’s just a waste of time to be there.

I think presenters may have to create couple of different versions of their slides. One good and clear one to present with and another one with more descriptions to circulate to those remote participants before hand. The latter one could even double up as your handout at the end of the presentation if you don’t have time to create separate handouts.

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