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
