[lit-ideas] Re: Pecha-Kucha
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 08:41:11 -0700
On Sep 4, 2007, at 8:14 AM, John McCreery wrote:
On 9/4/07, Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But I (and I believe David) weren't talking about that. I'm talking
about
standard PowerPoint presentations, especially when done by
marketing or
sales people. I have to put up with several of these every week.
It's so bad
that when the very first slide goes up, there is a general sigh in
the room
and everyone is resigned to the presentation.
It was perfectly clear that that was what you were talking about,
thus evidence that, instead of responding to the article, you had
reacted in kneejerk fashion to the mention of Power Point.
Well, no. I sat through the presentation on U-Tube and asked myself
if it seemed different from the kinds of thing I get exposed to. The
answer is, "no." Thus Andreas and I are probably talking about
different experiences (though I have sat through any number of
medical power point presentations which might well be like the sales
presentations--say something, show an image which says the same
thing...)
I stayed out of the earlier round of talk about power point because I
hadn't examined why power point presentations annoy me. What I was
trying to say yesterday is that I am happy to look, and I want to
listen, but most power point presentations I've attended have worked
on the premise that with plenty of images one needs to make very
little effort with the words. This example was better with words and
it is short, but I don't see it as a time-saving success or as a
better way to put a point across. If someone were to begin, "Though
some humans respond well to commands, a good many of us, particularly
when stressed, respond more readily and better to kind words..." I
think we'd get to the point in an instant; it's not a very
complicated idea. I don't need to see "I've edited out part of the
picture and now I've put it back in."
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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