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

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

On 12/02/2012 01:29 AM, Melinda Shore wrote:
> On 12/1/12 9:19 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>> sadly, too many of us remember writing on scrolls of acetate.  i
>> imagine that some remember stone and chisels.
> At the last meeting, for my own stuff I went with the old one-slide
> approach.  However, it did occur to me that by doing that the slide(s)
> lost its archival value (slim as that may have been) for people not
> in the room.  Anyway.
>
> Not really sure what can be done about this - you can say "discussion,
> not presentation" until you're blue in the face and the outcome of all
> that will be a blue face but presentations during the meetings anyway.
> Ultimately I expect it comes down to how individual chairs want to
> run meetings.

I think that organizations sometimes get into habits of doing things 
regardless of whether those things work well.  And the habits sometimes 
become so entrenched that it's considered heresy to suggest that they be 
changed.   Even individual chairs might have a difficult time changing 
those habits for their own working groups.

Keith