On Class Today...

[kybearfuzz]

Lawd! Save me from presenters who do nothing but read their powerpoint slides to the class...

... all ... morning... long... *guzzles caffeine*



Why not just have a brief self-reading period and have the presenter there to answer questions?

Comments

[algebear.livejournal.com]

Do they face the screen while they read them? That's even worse.

And of course, YOU would read the handouts on your own, but how many of the others attending would bother? ;-)

[bruinwi.livejournal.com]

What???!!!

And have you miss their brilliant reading of their dazzling prose?

Pulitzers have been awarded to less.

[spatts5.livejournal.com]

Is there anything worse than "death by PowerPoint"?

[snowboardjoe.livejournal.com]

Why don't they teach that to students in college? It's not that hard to train people on HOW to do a presentation.

When I do these things I use the Arial font, I only list bullet points and I never read the slides (except for quotes).

I assume they will have surveys so that you can voice your frustration?

[sweetjimmyto.livejournal.com]

I have done that when I have not fully prepared for a lecture. I die a little inside when I do it but try at the very least to talk "off slide" when I don't need the script.

[designerotter.livejournal.com]

Gee, maybe I oughta give up my efforts to learn Power Point.
I'm reminded of a New Yorker cartoon from a few years ago: Senior Devil in the Personnel Dept of Hell is interviewing a younger devil-job applicant. Senior Devil leans back in his chair and presses his fingertips together... "Um, do you know Power Point ?"