Tuesday, May 08, 2007

visual distrations with power point??

For all of you who wondered why they couldn't stand watching on a screen everything the commincator is saying, here's your reason: a new study on power point

I teach or communicate every week, and I use PPT weekly. However, I try and keep it to a minimum. Some pics, a key phrase, reference text, a quote. I rarely ever put my points, sub points, or too much words on the screen. To prove this theory, one guy once said he found it distracting hearing me quote someone and reading it off the screen.

I hear some people have 30+ slides in their presentations, long phrases to follow. I'm usually b/w 10-15. What about you? Any thoughts, suggestions, reactions you've heard from people.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm also around 10-15...sometimes even less than 10. I use it so people can know where I am in the message, not so every single word is up there.

Unknown said...

Don't you mean you preach every week?

David said...

yes Dom, how could I miss that... I don't just communicate, I teach and preach!!
however, the article was referring to communicating, so I thought it would be interesting to hear from people who don't necessarily preach, but use the tool often in other settings.
where are you at with this?
how does your church respond?