Powerpoint: Very, Very Gay

[skra75]

I am working on a Powerpoint presentation. I've never done one before.

It is retarded simple. Dirt fucking simple, slow and pathetic. It is literally sucking the life right out of from my eyes.

[Bob]

type with your toes for an added challenge

[Teh]

Most of my lectures in uni last year were with powerpoint. They're really hard on the eyes at 9am when you're hungover.

However, i can skip lectures and print them off el intranet before the exams! wahoo.

[Documad]

Power Point is the worst when people use too many colors, fonts, animated things, etc. When things are flying in and out of the screen and wiping and dissolving at every turn, I spend my time as an audience member trying to figure out what technique the speaker is using next instead of paying attention to content.

I used to run a red board many jobs ago. I used to make the information fly onto the screen as a banner hooked to an airplane. That was my favorite. :o I've come a long way. :)

[ScarySquirrel]

I've never really understood why Powerpoint seems to be so popular. Yeah, it's easy and you can make presentations seem a little bit more professional... but at the same time you also make your presentation seem about a million times more boring.

Eventually all the other stupid shit wears off too. Who gives a shit if you can incorporate sounds and video? You always could do that... it's called a VCR.

[kleptomaniac]

never use the thing where it types up all the words on the screen one letter at a time, nobody wants to sit through that (lb)

i've sat through some :/

it's like bleeding through your eyes!! gah!!!


edit: oh yeah, and it'd make it sound like a typewriter, which really gets to ya after ten minutes or so, so my ears were bleeding as well.

[cosmo105]

i had a chem prof that did every. single. lecture. in powerpoint. and he LOVED the letter animations. we'd have to sit there and watch every single letter plink down from the top of the screen. it was cute, actually. and the class was right after lunch, so it was nice to just relaaaax and watch the letters fall.

[HEIRESS]

powerpoint presentations should contain pictures and titles only

if you have paragraphs or even fully functional full blown sentences as any of your rare of even existant bulleted points then you can go fuck yourself with your gay presentation

this is coming from my point of view of presenting a scientific paper...

[Documad]

It takes a really amazing speaker to stand at a podium and capture your attention with voice alone. I'm not a really amazing speaker. I'm a competent knowledgeable speaker.

If you give people an outline via handouts, they just read the damn thing and don't pay attention either. If you use power point appropriately, it keeps people looking your way and kind of listening without them just reading along.

It depends on the topic and audience, but power point is good for professionals talking to non professionals. You can say "here are the basic rules for such and such a thing" and list them, and then you can show them a photo of a situation where you're applying those concepts.

It's also a nice crutch if you are nervous. But you should just give yourself talking points instead of writing out your whole speech or whole outline. I can't stand it when the speaker is reading from the screen.

[Documad]

powerpoint presentations should contain pictures and titles only

if you have paragraphs or even fully functional full blown sentences as any of your rare of even existant bulleted points then you can go fuck yourself with your gay presentation
Yeah, that's a much better way of saying what I meant. :o

[HEIRESS]

I wish I could be more eloquent, I really do

my uni-mates used to make bets before my presentations on how many times Id end up swearing while elaborating upon the interactions of certain genes involved in mitotic spindle formation

[Documad]

I wish I could be more eloquent, I really do

my uni-mates used to make bets before my presentations on how many times Id end up swearing while elaborating upon the interactions of certain genes involved in mitotic spindle formation
No, I'd bet that you're a big hit with your audience. Cops would love you like crazy.

[Teh]

I hate using powerpoint for presentations. Half the pics i want to put on end up coming up really pixelated and shite and you can't make out the detail. I'm not a very good public speaker because i tend to just rant on, so overhead slides are the weapon of choice because i need to remember what order they're in, what to say about them, how often to change them and all that.

Plus they don't turn cool colourful jpegs into shit magic eye puzzles.

What's your presentation on anyway skra?

[Chicka B]

Errr I hate presenting. I get so fuckin nervous over nothin.

[Friis gal]

^me too, but powerpoint make's you look cool, or something...

[ggirlballa]

i hate presenting but i'm good at it

[Drederick Tatum]

powerpoint presentations should contain pictures and titles only

if you have paragraphs or even fully functional full blown sentences as any of your rare of even existant bulleted points then you can go fuck yourself with your gay presentation

this is coming from my point of view of presenting a scientific paper...

it's same with Humanities.

I like Powerpoint. I did a seminar on govt funding of NZ radio and said at the start that it was a pretty dry topic and that I had included some pics to keep interest up. I had fucking flying sharks and fighting tigers all over that motherfucker. pics themselves made no sense but looked fucking badass and I killed it with the A+.

[beastieangel01]

I love presentations. I usually hate them up until I actually do it. As long as I am in to and knowledgeable about what I'm speaking on, I do quite well.

However, power point is a crappy, CRAPPY program. I rather use an overhead projector.

[kleptomaniac]

i hate presenting but i'm good at it

i had music to play in the background this one time, but the damn thing wouldn't play (!)

it was an instrumental, so it wouldn't be distracting, but soothing....too bad
that didn't work out :/


*looks down at feet and sighs*

[ggirlballa]

i had music to play in the background this one time, but the damn thing wouldn't play (!)

it was an instrumental, so it wouldn't be distracting, but soothing....too bad
that didn't work out :/


*looks down at feet and sighs*

i had too do that too once it was a green day song i was nervous cuz i brought an un-edited version so i had to be done before they dropped an F bomb:o

i regret that i chose a green day song

[skra75]

What's your presentation on anyway skra?

It's a new promotion we're doing at work. It's a presentation I'm making to all of design/development, which is cool. I kind of want to wear some Le Corbusier glasses, so I look all sophistimacated.

Doesn't make sense that it's in PPT though. I guess I shouldn't bitch, if it was in Director or Flash I'd still be at work sweating at my keyboard, those aren't my forte.

[skra75]

I had fucking flying sharks and fighting tigers all over that motherfucker. pics themselves made no sense but looked fucking badass and I killed it with the A+.

that's sounds amazing & spectacular