Blog Post #7: Death by PowerPoint Presentations


For Blog Post 7, you will watch the video called “Life After Death by PowerPoint” and answer the following questions:

The video is posted below:

  1. What are your thoughts after watching this video?
  2. Did the speaker’s humor help or hurt his message to the audience?
  3. Do you think using a PowerPoint slide show to demonstrate what not to do on a PowerPoint slide was effective?  Should he use another visual aid?
  4. Have you ever had a speaker use PowerPoint slides, and use some of the don’ts in the slides? What was your thoughts after the presentation?
  5. Last but not least, did the adult content “alcohol and drug” reference take away from his credibility as a speaker?