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Re: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint

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• Subject: Re: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
• From: David Megginson <dmeggin@a...>
• Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:29:36 -0500
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Tim Bray wrote:

>> Hmmm....so your best slides are based on pictures whose structure is 
>> not captured by the markup.
> 
> 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.

I'm with Tim on this one.  Except when constrained by a customer contract, 
my slideshows have never overlapped much with the content of my presentation 
-- I design them to supplement, not to duplicate.  In general, I use slides 
for things that are hard to grasp aurally:

- code fragments
- illustrations (such as screenshots)
- tabular data
- sequential rules, steps, or guidelines

I occasionally use them for impact as well, say, by including a famous 
quotation on a slide rather than reading it aloud.

My slideshows have always been nearly useless for anyone trying to recreate 
the content of one of my talks.


All the best,


David

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