I’ve got a gig coming up in your neck of the woods in January. More details when the folks send me the goods.

For showing charts, handouts, etc., (which were a part of the OTF presentation) I’d copy & paste the actual PDFs into PowerPoint/Keynote and then scale the graphic up to zoom in on what I wanted to talk about. A copy for the audience in a handout is pretty mandatory but I don’t see the conflict otherwise.

You ever give a presentation that’s both a) offline, b) in California, and c) public, you oughtta let your public know about it.

Ken, go for it. I think in talking about technology, Vicki’s absolutely right to demo the tech. As far as simplicity goes, though, were her presentation mine, I would’ve condensed and, in some cases, cut out a handful of slides and nearly every bullet point.

That’s basically what I’m driving at here.

The 80% is more problematic, because I’m showing the actual organizers, 2-column cloze notes, tracking systems, etc. that make what we talked about in the 20% part possible. An early solution was to only do slides on the 20%, provide hard copies of the 80% and work from there. This was unsatisfying, because holding up paper and pointing to it just felt lame.

Recently, I embedded all the 80% content into the 20% slides. This was more functionally satisfying, but esthetically problematic, because I had all these lame icons floating around my slides. That sucks.

So I don’t know. It’s maybe not a big deal, because my 80% is good, hard-hitting stuff, I get real fired up about talking teaching, and I play “Eye of the Tiger” before every presentation. After that, you can’t really go wrong.

I’ve read some of your past posts that address the issue of simplicity. I agree with your philosophy.

In fact, with your permission, I’d like to use your 3 recommendations from your previous post as guidelines for my students.

Ken, not sure what you’re referring to above.

You lead a rough and tumble life.

How much time do you spend having to clarify your points???

So, as you evaluate presentations, be careful not to “judge a preso by its slides” slides just don’t get it anymore.

Great presentations use video, internet resources, AND a backchannel in my opinion!

Thanks for the feedback, I really like the slide you did with the graphics on it of the WEb 2.0 items.

First I like guidelines over rules. Kawasaki’s rules are nice guidelines but would never feel compelled to follow them too strictly.

Yours of:
* Use your voice to tell a story.
* Use your handouts to convey information.
* Use your slides to draw a picture of the story.

are great guidelines.

Second, slideshare for me is a nice place to find exemplary decks…not presentations. As you suggest without the voice, the deck can’t stand on its own. Very few, are using the .mp3 option…likely because it’s easy to upload a deck..most are willing to sync an audio file.

But as Ken laments…tag a few good decks in SlideShare and send kids over there to have look see.

Two things:
1. If only we could get our students to instinctively do the same! But how many of them, a) create their slides moments before the presentation? b) have seen models of effective use of PowerPoint (what-have-you) by their teachers?
2. Humans do not have ‘instinct’. Oh, and we can’t multi-task. Thank you, O great Psych Dept @ U-HA