From the course: Redefining PowerPoint in the College Classroom

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Popular ideas about PowerPoint

Popular ideas about PowerPoint

From the course: Redefining PowerPoint in the College Classroom

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Popular ideas about PowerPoint

- [Instructor] Given the overwhelming use of PowerPoint outside of teaching, it's no surprise that popular PowerPoint advice occasionally makes its way into classrooms. A lot of popular ideas though exist on the level of lore and in the end are completely unsupported, though others are indeed worth considering. We'll be covering each in this video. Let's start with the unsupported ideas which are often packaged up as convenient but overly simplistic rules. For example, you may have heard about the 10/20/30 rule which states that any presentation should be no more than 10 slides long, last no more than 20 minutes, and have a font no smaller than size 30. This common advice was actually developed by an investor named Guy Kawasaki as a way of standardizing pitches he personally received. And that's fine if you just happen to be presenting to him. But there is zero evidence to support this rules larger efficacy, it's just a preference. Speaking of PowerPoint and numbers, you may have also…

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