Better Presentations
8 12 2005
I have seen some really awful stuff in my days here on the youth planet, but nothing has been worse than seeing people bore others with the Gospel. Especailly when it involves that little program Powerpoint. This really is a study of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. I have always tried to keep myself from performing these faux paus, but I have fallen victim to some of the problems. If you don’t understand what I am talking about yet, let me be explicit. If you use a different transition every slide, more than oneor two fonts in a presentation, more than 20 - 30 words on a single slide, more than 20 slides, etc. then you probably conform more to the ugly side of presentation. I’m not saying that you can’t sometimes break these unwritten rules, but generally speaking, you can’t.
Presentation Zen is a site dedicated to helping others present in an attractive way. It has great advice to the lay person and the professional and is a great place to just get ideas. The link is to a tip sheet of things to do and not to do. If you use any presntation software at all, you should check out this site. I would guarantee that you will get something out of this site, but I don’t really have anything to back up that guarantee, so I won’t.
I often refer to powerpoint as “Death by bullet-points.” Ugh.
I have this same site highlighted on my blog. It’s just so painful for me to watch people give comatose endusing presentations.