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   RE: [xml-dev] The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint

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Typically true.  As in specs, as in art, less is more. 
In real time, it is particularly applicable as anyone 
who jams on a regular basis discovers the clutter factor, 
but would Mozart be better with fewer notes?

1.  Slides with too many bullets are terrible 
    because the speaker runs over time every time.
2.  Slides without bullets can be worthless  
    and the speaker will still likely run over time.
3.  A problem of bullets is lookahead.  The audience 
    is reading ahead of the presentation and formulating 
    arguments instead of listening.  So is the speaker.
4.  Bullets are just one style.  Work with animation 
    and try to see what does and doesn't help.  Too 
    many styles in one presentation are worse.  Too 
    few are bland.  Keep winnowing until the speech 
    is exactly what you want to say.  Save some fire 
    for the last set. A bauble is junk jewelry.

No size fits all.  Practice is the path to perfection. 
Perfection is somewhere over the rainbow.  The best way 
to know if a gig is successful is if they book you again.

The songs I've recorded that have the least in them 
took me the longest to record.  Ego comes with facility.

len


From: roger.day@globalgraphics.com [mailto:roger.day@globalgraphics.com]

The same thing happens with poetry. There are all sorts of claims to rules,
but they're really just styles. "rules" are there for the greyhairs to
suppress the upncoming.

As I have been what might be loosely termed a performance poet who tries to
"deliver" abstract poetry, it seems to me that "content" at that particular
point of presentation is liquid. receptiveness differs  and no what content
you put up, people come away with different callbacks of what you've
presented. Writing words on OHP slides may seem to give comfort to the
presenter (Ah yes, look, it's in concrete blacknwhite!), but even this can
be treacherous. Keeping the ideas in the presentation simple seems to me to
be a reasonable approach.  Details are for absorption in quietness.




 

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