Re: [applekeynote] presentation dogma

And I'll apologize for that.

I noticed that when I received the note -- instead of before I sent it.  :(

I should've written that note more descriptively; I'll try again.

Something you might consider is making a separate handout of your presentation -- one that accompanies instead of matching your slides.

I know I always struggled with slides for many reasons. I wanted speaker notes to print with the presentation, but maybe not all of the speaker notes. From a content perspective, I felt that if I just handed out a set of slides beforehand, I often got people looking ahead and not being involved in the presentation. But if handed them out afterwards, that wasn't good either. Let's say I just put keywords on the slides. Then, it's imperative to be able to take notes on the handout. I think of so many presentations I went to where the only handout was a set of slides, and I'd be scribbling as fast as I could to catch the important details. Even then, for most of the presentations, I never went back and looked at the slides again because I knew that they didn't have the details I needed. And if I added all of my details to the slides so people could go back and reference it all later, then I felt frustrated as a presenter. Why was I there if I was just repeating what they could read off my slides? And some of the people watching started to complain about death-by-slides.  And for every slide that came up, I could see everyone focusing on it, trying to read everything, instead of listening to me. I thought I had the perfect answer: a handout which outlined the presentation, so they could take notes, with fill-in-the-blanks for keywords. Lots of people found it useful, but many also complained that they felt like they were back in school. So it was a big deal in Garr Reynolds' book to suggest that the handouts didn't have to be a copy of the slides. That fit very well into the type of presentations I was giving. And in your case, if you're able to make a report version of your presentation and hand it out separately (I did mine in Pages), that's another way to bypass the printing limitations of Keynote.

So was that better?

On Aug 13, 2008, at 10:37 AM, davidr_222 wrote:

I have to say that some of the comments I read here sound a little bit
dogmatic. I often have QUITE a bit of information on slides. I
reveal the information a little at a time and take considerable time
discussing it. Sometimes I break the material up into multiple slides
but this depends on the logic of the material. My slides also
generally have considerable graphic content, not just words. But
there can be plenty of words too. And my students often choose to
print out the slides. Others choose to take notes. I think that
there is quite a bit of variation in presentation style and in the
nature of presentation material and it might be helpful to consider
the possibility that some of the presentation rules I read here are
not universally applicable. 

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