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The world's top communicators have stopped using PowerPoint. Why are you stuck in the 1980s?
PIRatE Lab's curator insight,
January 29, 2020 12:50 PM
While some of these points are valid, much of this post is pretty lame. It inconsistently lists evidence and in effect is nothing more than an anecdotal argument....I guess that is what you would expect from someone who seems mostly about pushing advertising rather than quantitative analysis.
This post should be read as "why business presentations are lame" rather than a critique of PowerPoint per se.
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So you've learned to love your content, and you're now a master at PowerPoint design...or are you? See if your typography skills are on point with these 10 typ…
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Electronic slideshow presentations are often faulted anecdotally, but little empirical work has documented their faults. In Study 1 we found that eight psychological principles are often violated in PowerPoint® slideshows, and are violated to similar extents across different fields – for example, academic research slideshows generally were no better or worse than business slideshows. In Study 2 we found that respondents reported having noticed, and having been annoyed by, specific problems in presentations arising from violations of particular psychological principles. Finally, in Study 3 we showed that observers are not highly accurate in recognizing when particular slides violated a specific psychological rule. Furthermore, even when they correctly identified the violation, they often could not explain the nature of the problem. In sum, the psychological foundations for effective slideshow presentation design are neither obvious nor necessarily intuitive, and presentation designers in all fields, from education to business to government, could benefit from explicit instruction in relevant aspects of psychology.
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Conference presentations. We almost always have one coming up somewhere. So we are often thinking about how best to organise what we have to say. Now, there’s a lot written about conference p…
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When your speakers do have slides, the general consensus is that less is more. A single, strong, graphic image or succinct line of text will tell your speaker’s story better than a crowded collage of pictures or long paragraph. Remember, people need to process everything a speaker is saying while simultaneously absorbing the slides.
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Find out the biggest mistake presenters make when using PowerPoint slides. You might be putting your efforts into the wrong thing.
Peter Mellow's insight:
Some good ideas here, but remember that these sorts of presentations may be 'sales' focused.
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"Hello. My name is David Byrne, and I'm going to do an introduction to PowerPoint."
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I suffer from something called Ménière’s disease—don’t worry, you cannot get it from reading my blog. The symptoms of Ménière’s include hearing loss, tinnitus (a constant ringing sound), and vertigo. There are many medical theories about its cause: too much salt, caffeine, or alcohol in one’s diet, too much stress, and allergies. Thus, I’ve worked …
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Bored students is the least of it – the bullet point-ization of information is making us stupid and irresponsible
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Blamed for a rise in passive behaviour, and a decline in curiosity among young people, this software is divisive – loved by some, hated by others – but has it had its day?
PIRatE Lab's curator insight,
January 26, 2018 11:59 PM
This story seems mire about "hate" than love, but there are still a few morsels of interesting stuff in here.
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Don’t fret, we’ve all been there: You’re up late the night before Thursday and you have to teach a lesson at 8 AM the next day. So, what do you do
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Great presentations are those that are done by passionate people who know what they are talking about. The talk is always first and foremost. Energy and enthusiasm are needed to really connect with an audience. Make a human connection with them.
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PowerPoint has come to dominate organizational life in general and strategy making in particular. The technology is lauded by its proponents as a powerful tool
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Great 7 point threaded tweet about the better use of PowerPoint. Some good links in here!
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We all know what it’s like to sit through a bad presentation. We can easily spot the flaws — too long, too boring, indecipherable, what have you — when we watch others speak. The thing is, when we take the stage ourselves, many of us fall into the same presentation mistakes. Here are five of [...] continue reading
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We’re excited to announce a major milestone in PowerPoint Designer usage, new Designer capabilities, and that our AI effort is moving beyond Designer with our new Presenter Coach.
Peter Mellow's insight:
Presenter Coach looks interesting. I've always said you need to practice talking with your PPT deck slides before the actual presentation. Multiple times! But being able to get some feedback is really valuable. People are best, but AI is good if you don't have people around.
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In recent years, the slideshow presentation has become so ubiquitous in our schools that it has become rare to walk into a lesson and not see one on display. However, teaching from a slideshow can either support or hamper learning, depending on the slideshow design. In my English classroom, I use
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For artist and musician David Byrne, the medium is the message. Infographic guru Edward Tufte wants to kill the messenger.
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Presentations can be among the most painful experiences in both school and the working world -- and that includes listening to them. The way most of us give presentations is broken and ineffective, but it doesn't have to be that way. What if small changes in the way we prepared to speak could drastically improve our dynamism and effectiveness? Gordon will explain a smart and simple approach to creating presentations that engage audience and inspire action.
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From
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"Love it, hate it, want to ignore it – PowerPoint is part of many people’s working and academic lives. But it’s not all bullet points, crappy clip art and watermarked images of authors who forget good digital citizenship. PowerPoint can also be used as a simple image creator and editor." Via EDTECH@UTRGV
EDTECH@UTRGV's curator insight,
July 10, 2018 12:56 PM
When I need to create a quick graphic or edit a picture, I regularly turn to PowerPoint as my default image editor.
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I have been using Pecha Kucha (click here to hear it pronounced in Japanese: http://www.forvo.com/word/pecha_kucha/) in my courses for a couple of years now, and I have found the basic constraints of this presentational format to be very useful for my student presentations. If you are not familiar with Pecha Kucha, basic information about the history…
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With a seldom seen depth of knowledge and passion for his subject, David Phillips has become the leading Swedish figurehead in the art of making presentations. He is the founder and owner of Sweden's largest resource on the subject: Presentationsteknik.com. He is also author of the ground-breaking book "How To Avoid Death By PowerPoint" published in more than 30 countries.
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