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RE: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint

• To: 'Bob Foster' <bob@o...>
• Subject: RE: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:15:18 -0600
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

And as I said, we should consider those who provide 
such slideshows to be entertainers.

Works for me as long as I get to pick the background 
music too.

len


From: Bob Foster [mailto:bob@o...]

Tim Bray wrote:

> Absolutely.  I am abandoning the pretense that the slide deck captures 
> the *content* of my presentation.  The slides are a visual aid, that's
all.

That sounds right. The best speakers I have seen use slides like singers 
use pianos; they don't play the melody.

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