Comments on: Typical PowerPoint bad for brains http://www.apolloideas.com/blog/archives/677 Clear, simple expression. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:53:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Apollo Ideas : Blog » Blog Archive » Breaking up is great to do. http://www.apolloideas.com/blog/archives/677/comment-page-1#comment-237 Apollo Ideas : Blog » Blog Archive » Breaking up is great to do. Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:42:40 +0000 http://apolloideas.com/blog/?p=677#comment-237 [...] Bullet point after bullet point — one for each idea you want to express — clutters the slide and forces your audience to spend more time reading than listening. [...] [...] Bullet point after bullet point — one for each idea you want to express — clutters the slide and forces your audience to spend more time reading than listening. [...]

]]> By: Slide Design « TREC http://www.apolloideas.com/blog/archives/677/comment-page-1#comment-234 Slide Design « TREC Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:42:45 +0000 http://apolloideas.com/blog/?p=677#comment-234 [...] I have put a lot of effort over the last year in working to improve my use of slides in my presentations. I’ve considered where and when to use slides and also their design. There are a number of good books on this, Beyond Bullet Points by Cliff Atkinson, Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds and Slideology by Nacy Durate have been particularly useful. There are a lot of blogs, too, devooted to presentations and slide design. So there is plenty of advice and experience out there to draw on. The general consensus is that the traditional approach to using PowerPoint is ineffective at best and even detrimental to learning. [...] [...] I have put a lot of effort over the last year in working to improve my use of slides in my presentations. I’ve considered where and when to use slides and also their design. There are a number of good books on this, Beyond Bullet Points by Cliff Atkinson, Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds and Slideology by Nacy Durate have been particularly useful. There are a lot of blogs, too, devooted to presentations and slide design. So there is plenty of advice and experience out there to draw on. The general consensus is that the traditional approach to using PowerPoint is ineffective at best and even detrimental to learning. [...]

]]> By: Monirom http://www.apolloideas.com/blog/archives/677/comment-page-1#comment-236 Monirom Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:49:02 +0000 http://apolloideas.com/blog/?p=677#comment-236 I remember the days of Harvard Graphics and Lotus Freelance. Then there was Aldus Persuasion, which was a kick-ass application — until Microsoft bundled PowerPoint with MS Office and pushed Aldus Persuasion off the shelves. Long story short, the precepts you talk about now are the same when people were using "physical" slides and transparencies. Yet, I still see people today, cramming as much text as they can onto a PowerPoint slide — at the expense of legibility and audience retention. Kudos on the work you guys do. Reminds me of the presentations we did for Guy Kawasaki and GBTC when his book "Rules for Revolutionaries" debuted. I remember the days of Harvard Graphics and Lotus Freelance. Then there was Aldus Persuasion, which was a kick-ass application — until Microsoft bundled PowerPoint with MS Office and pushed Aldus Persuasion off the shelves.

Long story short, the precepts you talk about now are the same when people were using “physical” slides and transparencies. Yet, I still see people today, cramming as much text as they can onto a PowerPoint slide — at the expense of legibility and audience retention.

Kudos on the work you guys do. Reminds me of the presentations we did for Guy Kawasaki and GBTC when his book “Rules for Revolutionaries” debuted.

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