Redhaired Future Librarian

Presentation Link Dump

Here are links to articles about presentations. I started with a link from a comment on Library Stuff and followed where it led. These articles include valuable things to think about when presenting. (They all dislike Power Point. But that’s to be expected since I was following links on other sites of people who dislike Power Point. I need to find some sites about good things you can do with presentation software.)

I find this subject fascinating. I had no idea there was such controversy over Power Point. Even more interesting is that they don’t seem to be talking about the way I intend to use the software, which is as a fancy slide projector, to show my charts, graphs, and screenshots.

How to Make Presentations, etc. This is a forum thread on the website of Edward Tufte, who lectures about visual information. It’s fascinating, although a bit heavy-handed in its “anything but PowerPoint” message. A lot of contributions from visitors over the past few years.

An article from the Chronicle about how to deliver the scholarly lecture. Again, anti-PowerPoint. But full of other goodies. I’m not giving a scholarly lecture, but I suspect many of these points will apply. I’m assuming the people who show up will be there because they want to see and hear interesting information about how libraries use weblogs and how their libraries could use weblogs (my research turned up only a couple of weblogs in Missouri public libraries, though I assume there are more than that.) That’s what I want to give them.

I will add more links to the bottom of this entry and change the date to reflect the addition. Original post: 10-23-2005 12:30am.