I’m with Edward Tufte and Kathy Sierra on this one. I never use PowerPoint in my presentations because it:
- Limits interaction and spontaneity
- Focuses people’s attention on the slides rather than on what’s happening in the room
- Often requires dim, snooze-inducing lighting
There are great uses of PowerPoint too, but why risk it when doing your presentations “live” makes them:
- More fun
- More interactive and dynamic
- More interesting
So a while back we got our excellent designer to create a cool logo to celebrate the fact that out presentations are 100% PowerPoint-free zones.
We’re now releasing this logo under a Creative Commons license, so go ahead and use it if you want to go PowerPoint-free too.
The logo is available in Danish, Swedish and English and the CC license allows you to change it to your language if you’d like to.
Get the logo here:
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English jpg | tif |
Danish jpg | tif |
Swedish jpg | tif |
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
This is a nice and really humorous idea! Thumbs up! & let’s hope for more and more powerpoint free zones, both in the academic and business world…
Cheers,
Adam42
I’m with you my friend!
What do we want? PowerPoint-Free zones everywhere!
When do we want them? Now!
Catchy, no?
Great idea. I will certainly use it.
I love you for this!!! Maybe now my coworkers will get the clue!
I am in total agreement that Powerpoint is so old-fashioned and corny. Can anyone suggest alternatives to PP which are easy to use, easy to deliver, and also engage the audience?