Can you relate to the PowerPoint examples? Describe some of your experiences. What where they missing?

I can relate to a lot of the PowerPoint experiences from many classes that I’ve taken. The biggest one I relate to is when teachers put many ideas on one slide, which makes it difficult to pay attention and really absorb that information. I think most people don’t like too much blank space on a PowerPoint slide, but in reality, blank space is a great way to help you engage the audience, and also maintain focus on one idea. In some of my lectures, it seemed like the teacher copied and pasted part of the textbook onto the slide, and it was so overloaded I didn’t know what notes to take, or what the main idea of that slide even was. I was so busy writing down the entire slide that I didn’t even listen to the teacher, and just wasted time writing too much information down that I didn’t use in the long run.

I can also relate to reading off of the slides myself, because when you get in front of the class, it’s easy to lose confidence and want to stare at the slide. If we stare at the slide though and don’t make eye contact with the audience, we often lose their attention and engagement. If we keep our slides straight to the point, we can give the audience a better chance to engage with us as the speaker by making eye contact, and also help them really listen to what we’re saying, instead of zoning out while they take a bunch of notes. Overall, I think that the amount of information on a PowerPoint slide is often overlooked, but definitely less is more in order to keep engagement and make it easier for the audience to absorb the information.

Reference:
1) https://slidemodel.com/templates/overwhelmed-business-analogy-slides-for-powerpoint/8332-overwhelmed-analogy-1/