Reflection on 2nd Discussion Pros and Cons of Presentation Software

Pros and Cons of Presentation Software

In this discussion about presentation software it seems unanimous about Guy Kawasaki’s 10/20/30 rule for a PowerPoint presentation, the passion of the presenter, and how if used correctly the power behind a PowerPoint. It was also evident from the discussion that these three things don’t always exist in a presentation. It seems presenters’ have a greater tendency to use PowerPoint’s in lazy ways and not to their full potential. There were mixed feeling as to the use of hand-outs especially depending upon the audience (businessmen or educators) and Rick Maurer’s article.

As far as did I learn anything for this discussion I’d have to say not too much. Yes there were some good points made that I also understood from the readings and I enjoyed the articles and videos. The postings themselves had a lot of repeated information that was just reworded and I seemed to skim through the postings more this time because of this. I didn’t want to miss a new idea if it was out there. I still think we discussed as a class it’s just that the discussion topic seemed to be limited this time whether we chose to discuss that way or we didn’t have the variety as before. I enjoyed the idea on what else can we use PowerPoint’s but here too I was hoping to see discussions on a lot more uses because I think they are out there. Maybe everyone is just like me still looking to discovering them.

I have a suggestion to offer with this discussion. It seems that maybe we could of viewed other presentation software along with PowerPoint. The more the different types of a topic are presented the better the discussions I think.