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Re: What? No PPT or wireless? [Re: IETF63 wireless]

2005-03-14 06:38:06
As for presentations, the fact that they vary in quality can't be
blamed on PPT. It should be blamed on the presenters, perhaps.

    Brian


Edward Tufte makes a very convincing case that in the case of
powerpoint, the medium certainly influences the message:

Summary of Tufte's views in Wired:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html
"At a minimum, a presentation format should do no harm. Yet the PowerPoint 
style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content. Thus PowerPoint 
presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and 
very simple."

Tufte's own site:
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint
(Worth checking out for the cartoon).

Next slide please ...

Regards,

Carl

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