Professors love PowerPoint. Illustrate your intended literature review topic in a PowerPoint. Administrators love PowerPoint. Here are our new goals for next year in a brief and concise three hour presentation. Teachers love PowerPoint. Get in groups and illustrate your knowledge by creating a PowerPoint. UUGGGHHH! Please, can't we think of some other way to convey information?!?!?
There is a time and place for PowerPoint. Honest. Someday I may even choose to use it of my own free will. But when I do, I'm going to do it the smart way. I found a rule today on a blog that EVERY PowerPoint presentation should be required to adhere to. It should be a code in the software or something. It's called the 10/20/30 PowerPoint Rule and it was authored by Guy Kawasaki. This is his blog site if you'd like to check it out: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2005/12/the_102030_rule.html
Here it is and please, God, let the people around me use it!!!
The 10/20/30 PowerPoint Rule
So, the next time you're gearing up for a marathon PowerPoint presentation that would make even your most devoted follower want to jump out the window to escape the punishment, take a moment and consider the 10/20/30 rule. If you follow it, you might be surprised to find that the people in your audience are actually smiling for a change!
- All PowerPoint presentations should contain NO MORE than ten (10) slides
- All PowerPoint presentations should NOT EXCEED twenty (20) minutes
- The fonts used in PowerPoint presentations should NOT BE SMALLER than thirty (30) point
So, the next time you're gearing up for a marathon PowerPoint presentation that would make even your most devoted follower want to jump out the window to escape the punishment, take a moment and consider the 10/20/30 rule. If you follow it, you might be surprised to find that the people in your audience are actually smiling for a change!