abstract pointillist · 2008-05-05 19:23
POINT ONE: Presentations are about IDEAS, not TEXT.
POINT TWO: READING from SLIDES is a heinous crime.
POINT THREE: PEOPLE cannot COPE without some kind of visual STIMULATION.
Presenting the abstract pointillist powerpoint toolkit. 20 slides that can be used for any presentation. Cut, paste, copy, crop the slides to create an abstract of your ideas that you can then talk to and through.
WARNING: This is an ADVANCED powerpoint technique, for which you will need to be CONFIDENT in your argumentation. It should not be used by minors or those without the appropriate powerpoint LICENSE.
EXTRA BONUS: Why spend minutes trying to get the projector to work whilst showing your slides? Add the powerpoint testcard as your first slide, and check that colours, resolution and aspect ratio are correct. You can even check that your font size is readable (if you have to have words).
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Is this where I point out that there are only 19 slides on slideshare? Or is the testcard slide 20?
Also, have you pecha-kucha’d to this yet?
— Tom Carden 5.05.08 #
Slide #6 is my favorite, but then you probably knew that.
— Michal Migurski 6.05.08 #
I love this. The worst presenters remind me of the worst high school teachers in their unbearable clashing of written and aural input—unless you’re literally learning how to read, following along a paragraph of text while it’s being read to you is like trying to write while someone else “helps” by moving the paper under your pen. You waste so much attention on the mechanics of keeping in sync that the content itself becomes utterly secondary.
Very cool. I have to give a talk in a few weeks and I think I’m just going to doodle shapes on lots of pieces of paper.
P.S. http://flickr.com/photos/stml/2469909165/
Genious. I might have to use this in next presentation I give, wherever that might be.
I just wrote an article along these lines and then was sent this site. Read Is it PowerPoint or is it you? at http://smallbiztechnology.com/archive/2008/05/is-it-powerpoint-or-is-it-you.html