http://www.sethgodin.com/freeprize/reallybad-1.pdf
The first thing that most people use PowerPoint for is a TelePrompter!
Indeed, and even though the presenter mode can show you notes, it doesn’t really help unless you tend to stand at the podium. But if you stay there too often, then you surely will become a voice, or worse, noise in the background because the audience will look at your slides and not you.
At the end of the day, technology didn’t take away the basic requirement of delivering good talks: you need to be very, very familiar with your own talk. Then you can walk around and still know what should be said and what’s coming up next.
9:26 on August 17th, 2005
But how do you effectively use PowerPoint (or, ahem, KeyNote) for a theory talk? We don’t have demonstrations. Often there aren’t pretty pictures. And people expect the details. I couldn’t imagine giving a conference presentation without an equation or 10.
10:12 on August 17th, 2005
Here is a quickie and I will write longer pieces a week later (deadline pressing).
A “talk” really consists of three parts: (i) the content that you want to deliver, (ii) the slides you use to help you deliver your content, and (iii) the actual delivery when you are on the stage.
PowerPoint only helps you to do (ii) and, to a small extent, (iii). At present, most PowerPoint “self-help” books or articles are focused on business readers. So they may not fit your purpose exactly. Your comment seems to have more to do with (i) then the other two.
BTW, is “10″ in binary?