Harvard Just Discovered That PowerPoint Is Worse Than Useless

Re:Harvard Just Discovered That PowerPoint Is Worse Than Use... by owlninja on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @09:05AM (#20695087)

This should be presentation 101, you don't just put the text on the screen that is the same thing you are reading aloud. It should be for charts, diagrams, or some other visual to support your presentation or to break up the monotony. I was also taught to never use white backgrounds, I'm not sure if that is proven but I've always followed that rule. That said, I avoid presenting at all costs :)

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Re:Harvard Just Discovered That PowerPoint Is Worse Than Use... by analog31 on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @06:57PM (#20700881)

Unfortunately, the PowerPoint has other functions that require some written text, namely, it may be the only record of your project that anybody receives or has access to. It will be e-mailed to the people who didn't show up for your meeting. Your boss might incorporate some of your slides into his own PowerPoint. You might have written a lengthy report, but nobody reads any more, and your report will end up in some forgotten place.

Many have been the times when I've asked: "Can anybody tell me what happened?" and all I get back is a PowerPoint. That's it. Better make it count.

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Re:Harvard Just Discovered That PowerPoint Is Worse Than Use... by dredmorbius on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @07:04PM (#20700919)

Talks and presos should be adjuncts to papers.

Not always the case, obv, but this shuld be the general goal.

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