Don't Read From Your PowerPoint Slides - TJWalker Video
Here is another great video tutorial (4':09") from speaking expert TJWalker, highlighting the importance of not reading from your own PowerPoint slides.
When I think of it, I always come to the same conclusion: this issue originates from people creating PowerPoint presentations that are nothing but personal visual notes and not actual presentations FOR the audience. And this should not come to us as a surprise.
Why should we able to sport such sophisticated communication skills as those required by a talented visual presenter when often our only asset is having access to a "presentation" program?
Does Photoshop make you a talented photo-retoucher when you buy a copy?
Do you become a littleMichelangelo when you buy new paintbrush and colors?
Evidently not.
Tools by themselves do not make anyone a master. Worst, if we start getting the wrong drift, by looking at the poorly designed presentations others are delivering, we end up developing a culture of visual ignorance, in which everyone is presenting to herself, and where the evidence of the shallow communication taking place is revealed the moment you watch any of these presentations after they have been delivered.
Those presentations which can stand the test of remaining entertaining, useful and informative in their recorded state, deserve without a doubt to be looked as the models we should look up to.
posted by
Robin Good
on Friday, September 8 2006
Saturday, December 1 2007
URL of this article:
http://masterview.ikonosnewmedia.com/2006/09/08/dont_read_from_your_powerpoint.htm
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