Making best PPT: advice from @AcademicChatter

There are a lot of ways to make presentation better. And we should, since since is at least 75% presenting and talking about our work. Here some recent ideas from discussion reported by @AcademicChatter:

My rule of thumb is: "If you don't explain it, don't put it on the slide."

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— Fay Lin (@xiaofei_lin) April 24, 2019

Don’t be afraid to repeat slides! If you find yourself saying, “now if you remember the graph on slide 6”, just copy slide 6 and put it where you want to refer to it again.
— Eric Mills (@cartoon_physics) April 24, 2019

Have backup slides. You can anticipate or will experience common questions or follow-on detail/data that audiences will ask. Have those slides/data prepared and ready to go after your formal presentation.
— Luis Martinez (@TULuisMartinez) April 24, 2019

I always tell students not to put things on slides they can't explain (because it could be a question) , and that the audience may listen to you, read your slides but rarely do both
— Prof Rebecca Ritchie (@rebeccahritchie) April 24, 2019

And a sad investigation when slides go wrong

A story from @mcdreeamie of how wordy PPT literally killed seven people.
Spoiler alert: It took @EdwardTufte expertise to sort out ALL the ways they went wrong. https://t.co/cYQ4IGqUUu
— Academics@Work (@workingacademic) April 24, 2019

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