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Re: PowerPoint considered harmful (was Re: Barely literate minutes)

John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Sun, 02 December 2012 15:03 UTC

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From: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
To: Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>
Subject: Re: PowerPoint considered harmful (was Re: Barely literate minutes)
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--On Sunday, December 02, 2012 09:53 -0500 Keith Moore
<moore@network-heretics.com> wrote:

>...
> (Another way to put is that even if we provide such cameras in
> meetings along with colored pens and paper, we will continue
> to see PowerPoint being used as it is today unless there's a
> community-wide effort to change our entrenched habits.)

Sure.  But it is the now-entrenched habits that are the problem.
The overuse of PowerPoint for purposes of which neither of us
approve is merely a symptom, not, IMO, a cause (even if it
reinforces the behaviors).

Anyone for incorporating a slide (!) into the Newcomer's
Presentation (!!) that says "a presentation in a f2f meeting
that makes extensive use of PowerPoint decks with many and/or
dense slides brands the presenter as either a newcomer, someone
who is trying to avoid an actual discussion, or a fool"?   :-(

   john

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