Chapter 11
Giving Principled Presentations

 

 

 

In conference rooms, lecture halls, training centers, and hotel meeting rooms, approximately 1.25 million PowerPoint presentations are being given every hour (Levasseru & Sawyer 2006)! Presentation experts estimate a waste of $250 million per day from bad PowerPoints (Paradi 2005). In the minute it takes you to read these paragraphs, there are 21,000 PowerPoint slides flooding screens around the world. How many of these presentations offer a return-on-investment?

 

The alternative to death by PowerPoint is principled presentations that promote learning.

 

In this chapter we will look at how ...

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