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[–] [email protected] 81 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

1 out of 4, during a 2 hour lecture is much, much worse...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's a good presentation. The slides are supposed to be an aid, not a horizontal book.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe for something non-technical that would be reasonable. But if you're talking to a single slide for ~30 minutes, it's unlikely to be an adequate aid for most people. Either the content is really complex and would benefit from additional slides that focus on each relevant part. Or a lot of what you're talking about isn't really represented, and people are likely to get lost without something to show what it is you're describing.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The aid isn't for other people, it's for the presenter. Again, a presentation is not a book.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The aid is definitely for the audience. Otherwise, the presenter would just have some notes.

The slides don't need to be a book. But I struggle to think of a technical topic that doesn't have some visuals that would make talking about it easier to follow.

Edit: and I think it's presenters thinking the aid is for them that leads to such awful slides.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

And every one is just a single block of text that the presenter reads out, slowly...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I TA'd for a guy who did that... he randomly quit on a Friday morning, with an email that basically said "I can't do this".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I agree with him.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Counter point: It's from that one teacher who really gets teaching and it's two hours of fun where you dont realize you're learning

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

It's actually only 5 slides but I don't know how to add each line of text separately

The last 100 is a bunch of pictures that I turned into a stop motion thing

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

You are responsible for the rest on the exam, regardless of whether the professor was able to "find time" to talk about it during class or not:-).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lol mine are in 700 ranges. Not my fault the tech has no documentation. Someone's got to write it and I like pics...it's 90% pics

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As any good PowerPoint should be. Slides that are just a wall of text that the speaker then reads out are mind-numbingly unengaging

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

This is true, but they also allow someone who missed your talk to catch up by reading the PowerPoint. The best middle ground is to have instant text, but not read it, imo.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Every slide is an animation. I like to believe

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Heh, I did this once - mostly because 10+ PowerPoint animations really chug the university issue laptops, and I was presenting somewhere new (software is not your friend).

It was really 15 slides with about 20 animation steps on each - the students didn't seem to hate seeing a set of fully worked maths problems with colour coding linking parts of the question to the resultant equation.