Death by PowerPoint: alternatives for life

Death by PowerPoint - the need for a 'fidget index'.

PowerPoint is an application designed to help the speaker or lecturer assemble professional looking slides to be used in oral presentations. The result sadly is often an unending stream of slides with bullet lists, animations that obscure rather than clarify the point and cartoons that distract from rather than convey the message. This paper examines what the speaker can do to avoid 'death by P...

Death to weak PowerPoint: strategies to create effective visual presentations

THE PROBLEM WITH POWERPOINT There is nothing more frustrating than sitting through a presentation bombarded by slide after slide of small text, difficult to read graphs, irrelevant clip art images, and poorly designed templates. Often to blame is the use and abuse of PowerPoint1 (e.g., Tufte, 2003; Bumiller, 2010). Academics typically only endure weak PowerPoint presentations at conferences, wh...

Cheating Death-by-PowerPoint: Effective Use of Visual Aids at Professional Conferences

We critique the typical use of visual aids at political science conferences and make suggestions about more effective ways to incorporate them into presentations. Our main suggestions are that political scientists should use fewer and simpler slides, and that those slides should contain visually rich information that illustrates a speaker’s point without distracting the audience from his or her...

Live problem solving via computer in the classroom to avoid "Death by PowerPoint"

KAIO: MULTIMODAL DISCUSSION (POWERPOINT ORAL PRESENTATION) PowerPoint