Sept14-16, Power Point presentations

Power Points are used in school and business for many different reasons, to present ideas, to convince people of your ideas or to inform. In high school and some college classes they teach you to use power point with the 3 by 3 rule, which Tufte says is trivial and makes fun of peoples education. Tufte completely tears apart power point saying that it is distracting and fill of fluff, the power point is just for the presenter not the audience.

Power point in my opinion is very effective if done right. At lifehack.org I found ten ways to make your PowerPoint presentation more effective. Number 1 is write a script, then make you power point. Your power point is supposed to be an outline of what you are going to say, not exactly what you are going to say. number 2 is seeing only the thing you are talking about on the screen, not multiple topics since it will easily distract your audience. Number 3 is that your power point should only underline or reinforce what you say, no paragraphs. Number 4, avoid all the flashy pretty stuff on power point, use sans serif font for the body of your text and only use different fonts for headings and titles, avoid clutter as much as possible. Number 5, only use images when important and backs up your information. Number6, be conscious how you present yourself from what you wear to how you speak to your body language. Number 7 have a hook that gets your audiences attention, number 8 ask questions of your audience, get them engaged in the topic. Number 9 is keep a lively personality tone of voice and number 10 is break the rules if their is a good reason for it.

With these points I think that power point is a good way to present, the main thing I think is keeping the audience interested in what you are saying, and that can be hard sometimes if the slides just have lines and lines of information, it makes me personally want to go to sleep. Prezzie I can see being alot more dangerous for creating fluff, since it has all that cool stuff power point does not. Our professor told us that prezzie eats little kittens and after playing with it for a little, I totally understand that statement, I might have to play with it a lot more before I make a presentation with it to get all of the things I would like to try out of my system first.

this image was obtained from: http://www.themonkeycage.org/2009/07/kicking_powerpoint_out_of_the.html