Bad Powerpoint presentations annoy me. Do you get mildly annoyed when you sit though a presentation that could have been a handout? Do you feel like getting violent when people read off the screen?
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I don’t get to present as much as I’d like, but I sit though lots of patched together presentations. This morning was an exception, the Newcastle Civil/Structural branch of the Institute of Engineers hosted a breakfast presentation by Peter Stewart who was Senior Project Engineer for the design and construction Alliance Poject of the Lawrence Hargrave Drive reconstruction south of Sydney. There were parts of his presentation that were not the greatest stylewise, but generally the content was clear, the images were useful and the text was kept to a minimum. His manner and content were engaging and pitched well to a predominately technical audience. I’m sure this was a well practised talk on Innovation in Engineering with some case studies from his career, but it was refreshing to see an Engineer present with style!
Photo of Lawrence Hargrave Drive courtesy of the RTA.
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I can’t even begin to tell I can’t even begin to tell you how many horrible presentations I’ve had to sit through. In cases where there’s that much text, I would definitely prefer to have a handout and *not* have someone try to read all that stuff as I strain my eyes trying to see what’s printed on the screen.
I spend waaaaay too much I spend waaaaay too much time sitting in front of a computer reading text as it is. What was he thinking!?