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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:06:43 -0400
From: Jerry Levine || patchmonkey <patchmonkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [IP] The Level of Discourse Continues to Slide
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
This is born and bred in colleges and universities all over the country.
Rather than teaching how to do things correctly, most professors (and
I'm going from my personal experience, not attempting to insult) don't
present well either.
In fact, the best I've seen is when the professor looked at the class
sleeping, said "Screw this", and taught the rest of the semester by
speaking and writing on the board.
There's a true art to presenting. Some people are very good at it. But
students in college need to be taught "How To Present 101". Grading
matricies for presentations have to have an added element - how well you
present and keep your audience's attention.
In fact, to make a bad presentation good (or great even), there's only a
few things that need to happen:
1) "Don't read the slide and Don't put whole sentences" - You're up
there presenting, not reading a story to children who can't read. If the
senteneces are up there, you don't need to be - because no one wants to
be read to (and frankly, this is the biggest problem).
2) "Take a public speaking, theatre, or performance course." - This
makes a huge difference. Knowing how to control one's voice can really
help when presenting.
Mr. Aniballi's statement that "Engineers rarely have a clue..." is true
- but the fact is that most people, no matter their age or profession,
have a clue.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Farber [mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 7:37 AM
> To: ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [IP] The Level of Discourse Continues to Slide
>
>
>
> From: Marc Aniballi <marcaniballi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Even Microsoft suffers from this - when I worked for them, we
> had bi-annual meetings that lasted a week and were filled
> with dawn 'til dusk presentations (PowerPoint of course).
> Internally we referred to it as the bi-annual sentence to
> Death by PowerPoint. The case is ever true though, it was
> just as bad before powerpoint, when you had overheads (poor
> quality much of the time) and some presenter with a magic marker.
>
> The issue I find is that there are very few people who know
> how to CREATE a presentation. Most are reduced to copying a
> template presentation from some old corporate archive and
> changing the bullet points to suit their requirements. Then,
> if that isn't bad enough, they haven't been trained in how to
> PRESENT a presentation, and so they inevitably get on stage
> and read the slides to everybody. If the content hasn't
> already put the audience to sleep, the presumption that they
> don't know how to read will surely have them out the door in
> spirit, if not in reality.
>
> There is a reason why arts majors are necessary in a society
> - they have studied how to capture human attention! Engineers
> rarely have a clue in this area and are quite comfortable
> with the fact.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Marc Aniballi
>
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