PowerPoint – Visual Aid or Visual Distraction? Pt 1
The pros and cons of PowerPoint These days PowerPoint is part of any speaker’s armoury. Yet no doubt you, like me, have seen PowerPoint used both well and badly. Used well it can contribute greatly to the hearer’s understanding. Used badly it can be a significant distraction as the hearer is trying to work out what a slide says and means rather than listening to the speaker. In this three part series I shall look at some of the basics I have found useful in using PowerPoint, whether for sermon illustration or as part of a presentation in a training programme. How not to Recently I have been in two ‘bad’ settings. In one a responsibility tree was put on the screen with a minimum of 50 ‘pods’, probably more.…