We have met the enemy and he is PowerPoint

[Ed Anger]

I like PowerPoint, although I hate doing anything that actually requires it.  It helps you to pare down the idea to an essential outline, and then build up on it.  It's not like you're just supposed to reduce the ideas to bullet points, and leave it at that.  You should probably do more than just read the slides aloud while doing a presentation.

I like to play videos also. My current fav is the clip of Miroslav's Satan's goofy goal dance.

You too can jog towards your goal!

[grumbler]

PowerPoint

I refuse to prepare anything using it.  My design documents are always done in Word.  If I need to do a mockup it gets done in Word or Excel GODDAMNIT.

PowerPoint luddites

Glad you refuse to use modern technology.  More jobs for those who don't reject useful things based on bumper-sticker thinking.

[Caliga]

Hilarious.

[CountDeMoney]

I always use PowerPoint to support my sense of humor, engaging personality and obtuse flirting, not to replace it.

[grumbler]

I always use PowerPoint to support my sense of humor, engaging personality and obtuse flirting, not to replace it.

Exactly.

The key to using PowerPoint well is the slide titles.  They should be short, declarative sentences, supported by the bullet points/images in the body.  If you cannot think of a short, declarative sentence to title the slide, dump it.  If the short, declarative sentence doesn't support your thesis (which should be in the title slide), dump the sentence and the slide.

An effective PP presentation is an essay, with a thesis, evidence and conclusion.   It is like a miniskirt:  long enough to cover the topic, but short enough to be interesting.

[Jaron]

I always use PowerPoint to support my sense of humor, engaging personality and obtuse flirting, not to replace it.

Exactly.

The key to using PowerPoint well is the slide titles.  They should be short, declarative sentences, supported by the bullet points/images in the body.  If you cannot think of a short, declarative sentence to title the slide, dump it.  If the short, declarative sentence doesn't support your thesis (which should be in the title slide), dump the sentence and the slide.

An effective PP presentation is an essay, with a thesis, evidence and conclusion.   It is like a miniskirt:  long enough to cover the topic, but short enough to be interesting.

Spoken like an out of touch teacher. A PP presentation is not an essay. It is a work of art through which the artist carries the ideas from the mind and gives them life and visualization.

[grumbler]

Spoken like an out of touch teacher. A PP presentation is not an essay. It is a work of art through which the artist carries the ideas from the mind and gives them life and visualization.

You are repeating me, but without understanding me.  Time will give you the wisdom to understand, Padawan.

[Jaron]

 

[garbon]

I'm a powerpoint goddess, j-dawg. I can give you some tips.

[grumbler]

I'm a powerpoint goddess, j-dawg. I can give you some tips.

J-dawg, you should definitely follow the lead of someone who, for some reason, doesn't tell you her secrets, rather than one who does.
After all, you = FIAL = me = YES 

[garbon]

All I've done for the last 3 years is make powerpoint presentations. Not really a secret.