{"id":801,"date":"2006-11-09T11:43:24","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T11:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/09\/powerpoint-examples\/"},"modified":"2006-11-09T11:43:24","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T11:43:24","slug":"powerpoint-examples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/09\/powerpoint-examples\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerPoint Examples"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having talked at length about my theories of how to do an effective PowerPoint talk, I probably ought to provide some examples. These are converted to PDF because it’s more generally readable than PPT, and because the files are slightly smaller. The conversion is done using CutePDF writer, which does something to the files that occasionally causes Acrobat to choke, but you should be using FoxIt<\/a> instead, anyway.<\/p>\n

Camp College slides<\/a>. This is a “simulated lecture” that I did for a summer program here. It’s a 50-minute talk about laser cooling, and runs to 23 slides, though I usually wind up stopping after 19, because there are a lot of liquid nitrogen magic tricks that go with this.<\/p>\n

Colgate talk<\/a>. This is the set of slides I used for a talk at Colgate University several years ago, and is basically my job talk converted to a PowerPoint show (the slides were originally made up in PowerPoint, and printed onto overhead transparencies). It’s 32 slides, and closer to an hour of talk time. The file is “ColgateShort.pdf” because I trimmed out another dozen or so slides from more technical versions of the talk, that I held in reserve in case there were questions.<\/p>\n

I’m very happy with the undergrad-audience version of my current research talk<\/a> (“Counting Atoms for Astrophysics: Atom Traps, Neutrino Detectors, and Radioactive Background Measurements,” available for colloquia at your institution…). Warning: it’s very image-heavy, and the PDF version comes out at 2.3 MB. That runs 26 slides, again for an hour-long presenation, and is probably the best of the talks I have available in electronic form.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to critique my talk-design skills, you know where the comments are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having talked at length about my theories of how to do an effective PowerPoint talk, I probably ought to provide some examples. These are converted to PDF because it’s more generally readable than PPT, and because the files are slightly smaller. The conversion is done using CutePDF writer, which does something to the files that… Continue reading PowerPoint Examples<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","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=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}