Comments on: Let’s have a Distraction Summit! http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/pptblog/lets-have-a-distraction-summit/ Helping you with presenting, PowerPoint, and speaking Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:39:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shirley Gutkowski http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/pptblog/lets-have-a-distraction-summit/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Shirley Gutkowski Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:08:20 +0000 http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/pptblog/?p=200#comment-108 I just taught this very message at the Sun Prairie Public Library beginner PowerPoint class. Some people were mad that I didn't have them do a little PP but I needed the time to teach them what a good PP was and a couple a tricks to shorten the learning curve then say g'bye. Excellent way to put science into practice. Thanks. Shirley I just taught this very message at the Sun Prairie Public Library beginner PowerPoint class. Some people were mad that I didn’t have them do a little PP but I needed the time to teach them what a good PP was and a couple a tricks to shorten the learning curve then say g’bye. Excellent way to put science into practice. Thanks.

Shirley

]]> By: Sean Brown http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/pptblog/lets-have-a-distraction-summit/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Sean Brown Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:01:03 +0000 http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/pptblog/?p=200#comment-28 So I will take your suggestion one further: Not only will we not display slides full of text while speaking, we will also limit people's ability to text/phone/email/surf the web, while driving a moving car! Brilliant post though. I wish I had a dime for every time I was in some breakout session with text heavy slides and a jabbering speaker. I wanted to scream "READ OR LISTEN! CHOOSE ONE!" So I will take your suggestion one further: Not only will we not display slides full of text while speaking, we will also limit people’s ability to text/phone/email/surf the web, while driving a moving car!

Brilliant post though. I wish I had a dime for every time I was in some breakout session with text heavy slides and a jabbering speaker. I wanted to scream “READ OR LISTEN! CHOOSE ONE!”

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