Life After Death By PowerPoint

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Comment by Claude Almansi on October 29, 2007 at 1:34pm

Great lesson, thanks, John!

Besides, slide presentations are basically linear, made for talking to people, not for discussing with people. Yeah Ok, in theory you can move around the slides too from the general view - but if you are a bit nervous, it is easy to fumble.

I tend to open the things I want to be able to show in the tabs of a browser: if the file names are short enough, it's easier to jump from one to the other.

Though with the Noi Media work group, we did one meeting at a teachers' training institute where we used slides that worked really well, but:

a) they did not have a single bullet point (we wanted to convince people, not to shoot them
b) we were in 3 to animate the meeting, so when one answered a question, another could fish out relevant slides

Though the content was decided by the 3 of us together, the realisation was done by Luca Mascaro with some Mac program I have forgotten the name of. Anyway, if you want to see a bulletpointless "powerpoint", the PDF of them is presentazione_iuffp.pdf (but beware: 3 Mb).