The topic of this week's class was Web 2.0 and it's role in public health. Unfortunately, I wasn't there. I spent this week at a conference in Houston discussing the human factor in military operations. Specific to this course, I was reminded of our lecture on presentations, especially those using powerpoint. I was shocked to see leaders in the field losing the impact of their presentations because their powerpoints were so poorly put together. Many of them were busy and hard to follow. Others had so much text and the font was too small that they were unable to read. It was surprising because some of the topics these presenters were discussing were some of the most interesting topics to me: the NASA astronaut human factor and how that impacts all space missions.
It just goes to show how important it is to use powerpoint as a "bullet-point" tool, and avoid putting too much information on a slide. The information should come from the presenter...not the powerpoint slide.
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