jeudi 25 juillet 2013

PowerPoint for dummies!...




This book cover is absurd!
PowerPoint will not help you create a presentation! Let alone, a "striking presentation!"

PowerPoint was not invented, programed and sold to create presentations. That is what you would like to believe. What the writers of this book and of many other books of the same kind want you to believe, so they can sale more of this message: "PowerPoint is a software that can make the presentation in your stead, therefore you will not have to stand in front of your audience, take risks, stand out, feel exposed, etc."

You are the presentation!  The presentation is You! It can only be You!

Because a presentation is not a bunch of (sleeping) human beings reading a deck of slides!
A presentation is one human being talking to other human beings!

You don't need PowerPoint for that!

The proper use of PowerPoint during a presentation is a skill. It takes a lot of preparation to make sure that your slides are perfectly intertwined with your words. That each slide is here to help your audience understand what you are saying.

Now unfortunately, when you use it without this knowledge and without preparation, PowerPoint may very well make you look like a dummy! 

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