Last week I was deeply immersed (3 days x 14 hours ea) in helping run an NMC Conference in Second Life. Something that has always been obvious came knock me over with a hammer obvious – there is something perversely wrong in communicating something in a 3D space using 2D slides. cc licensed flickr photo shared by NMC Second Life What’s even the point? Frankly, I’ve been in this game long enough and see what too many of us (often me, yes I am Mr Pot calling kettle black) rely too heavily on the linear slide deck to prop up what we are communicating. It’s not that all slide presentations are bad– its just most of them are ;-) Even with plenty of people getting away from 9 point font (I still saw a session last week with some slides carrying 60+ words) and becoming more Presentation Zen-like, isn’t there [...]
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