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[–] [email protected] 134 points 6 months ago (1 children)

the slides will be in our corporate colors: yellow text on a pink background …

[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And the presenter will regularly quiz attendees on the content

[–] [email protected] 64 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not quiz as such. More like “any questions so far?” at the end of each slide, but will not give you time to ask anything “no? Ok, moving on”

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Add to that going back 2-3 slides every 5mins and you get my professor at uni. Watching his classes was actual torture

[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago (1 children)

One of my teachers at uni used a Word document instead of a presentation. And yes, he still read it word for word. It was like a very shitty audiobook

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Alternatively, the best live audio textbook performance ever

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Or Bob the boomer goes can you go back 3 slides?

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 6 months ago (3 children)

At university, I had a lecturer who took this one step further. Instead of a power point, he used a word document that he read word by word.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago (5 children)

legere (lat) to read => lectura (lat) the reading event => lecture (en) => lecturer (en) a person giving/hosting a reading event.

A lecturer is supposed to read the text of a book to students so that they are able to write it down and obtain a copy of it for themselves.

Books written by professional scribes are incredible expensive, and this new thing they established in Bologna in 1088 – the so called "universities" offering lectures will be a major breakthrough in the history of mankind to distribute knowledge!

Good to know some professors still honour the only true way of teaching.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Pfff this generation is wasting good expensive sheets of paper when good old oral tradition has worked for thousands of years. Writing was invented only 4000 years ago and still haven't caught on.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Oh no my kid's school just texted me he got a fever I have to go. Hate to miss the presentation, can you post the slides in chat after? Thx!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (3 children)

can you post the slides in chat after?

Can you post the highlights in chat after?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Someone who gives a presentation like this is incapable of summarizing - you will be getting the full presentation.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It’s even more fun when your manager makes you do a presentation. And he schedules it at 10pm, so that all the people 12 timezones away can attend at their “morning time.”

But they don’t even bother to join the zoom. The only people attending are also in your timezone up way later than they want to be. And he’s like “it’s ok, we’ll record it for them.” Like wtf.

And then they go and do stupidass incorrect shit anyway, whether they watched the recording or not.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago

stupidass incorrect shit

like scheduling a meeting at 10pm

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago (23 children)

I'll never forget the one professor who put up a side of code... And had no idea what the class was about. We spent most of the class reading together with him to try to figure out what the lesson was supposed to be about

Apparently the guy was one of those crazy low-level guys who can do things I don't understand but build on top of. Guy just constantly looked bewildered by reality, he belonged in the code world

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Here is my opinion: Slide should have images, diagrams or charts to illustrate what I say, almost never any text. What I say is written in advance in the notes of the presentation that is only visible to me while presenting, but will be readable by anyone who look at the file afterwards. I prepare the duration and delivery of the speech at least three times in full before presenting.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Death by a hundred slides.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is the waterpark I want to go to this summer.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Have you ever been to an office meeting that turned out to be a CEO circlejerk that dragged on for hours?

But a friend of mine went to the grandaddy of them all, something about state politics, some ambitious asshole making a power play and filibustering for an entire day, he had come prepared specifically to wear everyone down, I think he was trying to approve a new set of rules and conditions that benefitted his position, something along those lines.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (4 children)

CEO of our company does one every single Friday at lunch over zoom. Luckily I have never attended. But my boss does has to eat his lunch while listening to CEO talk about all the ways they doing great when we aren't.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Even if I'm only presenting a handful of slides I'll slap some blank ones on the end just to make everyone sweat over "Slide 1 of 83". Everyone is pretty darn quiet and glad to help speed things along most of the time.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

No, I think it is cruel and unusual punishment.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

People who aren't good at presentation making think that they are supposed to convey absolutely everything they are saying and be crammed full of information. I was doing a group presentation sometime ago where my group members insisted I put paragraphs of info in my slides and were worried we would fail for not enough information. Even after explaining that they were meant to guide the audience in what I was going to say, they insisted that it was wrong

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Also:

Presenter: Can we hold all questions to the end, please? Thank you!

The end obviously never arrives.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

It arrives, but by then there's no time for questions.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

My best presentation at university was during a small seminar. It was a 45min talk about 3 papers and how they relate to each other. I procrastinate a lot, so I didn't really do anything besides reading those papers until the day before my presentation. That day, a friend called for a spontaneous barbecue, so I had just an odd hour to actually prepare slides. I managed 8 slides in total, the rest I just impromptu recalled from memory. People liked it and it was the least effort I put in any talk I held at university.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

reading those papers

Woah there Mr. Overachiever, you're making the rest of us look lazy...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Honestly, that's the right way to do it if you really know your stuff.

The slides are there as a visual aid or backdrop. The "presenter notes" is where all your bulleted items and prompts for recollection go.

Also, and this is where a lot of people get it wrong, the slide deck is NOT a useful document for distribution. It is specific to both the subject matter and speaker; it's analogous to sheet music. A video of the presentation (e.g. TED) is far more useful as we're really talking about a performance. At worst, there should be "references" page in some appendix, with hyperlinks to actual media that folks can digest on their own time.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It really baffles me when people make presentations like this. It's such an easy thing to correct as well but it just keeps happening.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (10 children)

I hate this. It's basically just a lecture with slides as the cue cards, which the audience can read for themselves.

It's like having subtitles in real life.

Ugh. Give me some data, graphs, or pictures of cats to look at for the slideshow or something. Something other than what you're saying. If you add nothing to what we're seeing, then.... I have eyes. I don't need you to read it for me.

PowerPoint, at least, has a notes section and a presenter view, so you can hook your computer up with the projector or TV or whatever as a second monitor and PowerPoint can be set up to use the TV/projector/whatever, as the slide show, and give you a presenter view on your screen which shows the current slide, and all your notes.

So if you can't get relevant pictures, at least put up something interesting to look at, and leave the cue cards notes in the notes section, so the audience doesn't have to stare at the exact words you're saying, as you're saying them, because I guarantee you that if you do, I'll be judging you on your spelling and grammar.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The comic strip sounds like someone made a plugin to export obsidian vaults to .pptx

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (9 children)

People who do this shouldn't be in management.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Good old PowerPoint karaoke

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How anyone even remotely thinks they should do this boggles my mind.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

I don’t think they think, to be honest.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

In university I had a prof that used an overhead projector and a marker to slowly follow the lines drawn on the sheets.

I'd have given anything for a few PowerPoint slides.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Wow! What a quick reader!!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Just send the powerpoint and an audiobook at this point and add a comments section

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Better yet, just send me a transcript, or just the PowerPoint. I don't need someone to read to me. I can read faster than they can talk.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Why even have words in the power point if you're just going to read them aloud word for word?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You scheduled 15 min for this presentation and I have another meeting after this. So cliff notes only please.

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