{"id":5257,"date":"2010-12-09T10:24:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T10:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/09\/academic-poll-lesser-evils\/"},"modified":"2010-12-09T10:24:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T10:24:11","slug":"academic-poll-lesser-evils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/09\/academic-poll-lesser-evils\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Poll: Lesser Evils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Backreaction, <a href=\"http:\/\/backreaction.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/powerpoint-or-blackboard.html\">Bee runs through the pros and cons of different presentation methods<\/a> for academic talks. As she quite correctly notes, both PowerPoint presentations and chalk talks have strengths and weaknesses. You can give a good talk with either, and a bad talk with either.<\/p>\n<p>This does suggest a topic for a reader poll, though, namely, if you have to sit through a bad presentation, which sort of bad presentation would you prefer:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/4221377.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/4221377\/\">What sort of bad presentation would you rather sit through:<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">survey software<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Please note that &#8220;I&#8217;d tune it out and watch good presentations on the TED website instead&#8221; is not an option. Imagine a sealed room with no Internet access of any kind, and you don&#8217;t have pen or paper with which to work math problems or doodle on to pass the time. Would you rather be forced to sit through a bad chalk talk or a bad PowerPoint talk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Backreaction, Bee runs through the pros and cons of different presentation methods for academic talks. As she quite correctly notes, both PowerPoint presentations and chalk talks have strengths and weaknesses. You can give a good talk with either, and a bad talk with either. This does suggest a topic for a reader poll,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/09\/academic-poll-lesser-evils\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Academic Poll: Lesser Evils<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-polls","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}