A little fun on PowerPoint. During a presentation this week, I was reminded of this video from Don McMillan. I’ve booked Don McMillan for a user conference once, not only does he know how NOT to use PowerPoint, he’s very effective with it as well when doing a keynote.
Kinda Dilbert live with a LCD Projector, a Microphone and a copy of Microsoft Office.
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Heh. We do a “how to give a truly terrible talk” seminar with our summer research students. He covered most of them, but another pet peeve is the background graphic that obscures the slide text/data.
I hear you on the backgrounds.
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RT @spatially: PowerPoint Guidelines: Font Usage, Animation and More http://bit.ly/cNeoLI