A nice rant against powerpoint

[f4f3]

This:

http://www.greg-brooks.com/000005.html

and the link to a Wired article, say a lot about what I hate most about Powerpoint. I'm in the middle of responding to a request for a FIVE HOUR presentation, and fighting to get it made into a workshop instead. The attitude seems to be that you must use PP and you must have lots and lots and lots of slides.

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[pshtaku.livejournal.com]

Most of my recent professional career has been in an environment where we didn't have very easy access to projectors - and so if you wanted to present to someone, it was a case of chalk & talk... I used to have my own printing whiteboard that I would drag with me to meetings... I did become very adept at drawing out the architecture!

Then more recently (i.e last 6 months) had environment where most mtg rooms had projectors - therefore there was a tendency to use powerpoint. I did notice that my presentations tended to be - a title slide, some slides with diagrams that I didn't want to have draw again & again, and that was just about it...

My colleagues on the other hand were very adept at designing multipage presentations whereby they read out *all* the words on the slides...

I always felt this was very condescending to the audience as it was like saying - you lot can't read, so I'm going to read it for you....