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by michaelt 536 days ago
> There's no single "style of PowerPoint".

Sure there is: https://norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm

Powerpoint presentations have a distinct content and character arising from the medium. The style of powerpoint is:

* 3-5 Bullet points in a big font

  * With indents if at all possible
* Plot with no more than 8 data points

* Prepared and researched in advance, nothing off-the-cuff

* No corrections or clarifications or shifts in focus, it's not possible to edit slides on the fly

* One person 'on stage' with a clicker while everyone else listens quietly

* I don't know if this video is going to play or not

1 comments

Let's add:

* afterward you might think yourself successful if someone "asks for the slides"