{"id":1653,"date":"2010-12-09T23:52:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T04:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2020-07-25T18:59:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T23:59:29","slug":"why-do-you-want-my-slides-june-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=1653","title":{"rendered":"Why Do You Want My Slides? (June 2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.districtadministration.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/06\/02\/child_conference313.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-full alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Child_conference313\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.districtadministration.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/06\/02\/child_conference313.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Child_conference313\" width=\"219\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a>Each year I make dozens of presentations at educational events around the world. Nearly every presentation is followed by an audience member asking, \u201cCan I have a copy of your PowerPoint?\u201d Sometimes, they hand me a USB drive.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of collegiality I refrain from answering in any of following ways:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2022 <em>I don\u2019t use PowerPoint. I use Keynote and my slides will look crummy on your PC.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022\tMy presentation file is often very large due to embedded video and won\u2019t fit on a USB drive.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022\tDo you mean PowerPoint slides?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022\tNo, the work is my intellectual property.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m flattered that people want a souvenir from my talk, but my slides are a poor simulacrum for attending the actual presentation.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t vouch for every presenter, but I know how hard I work to make my presentations not only informative, but entertaining. A lot of effort is expended in order to hone the performance aspects of my presentation. I work on the narrative arc of each talk. Taking me out of my presentation diminishes its value substantially.<\/p>\n<p>What do attendees intend to do with my slides? Some may use them to job their memory of big ideas presented. Some will present my slides in a professional development context, which will make that workshop or meeting interminably boring. Plus, it deprives me of an opportunity to address that audience in-person or virtually. There have been other cases in which people presented the work of others as their own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s share!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Slide sharing is increasing in popularity.  Every few days someone tells me about a presentation I should see. Based on the recommendation, I point my browser at a site like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.com.\">www.slideshare.com.<\/a> Once there,  I find sides like the following featuring a white rectangle with black text that reads, \u201cChange.\u201d Boy, that really captures the nuance of a presentation I didn\u2019t see.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.districtadministration.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/06\/02\/picture_4.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-full\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Picture_4\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.districtadministration.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/06\/02\/picture_4.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Picture_4\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I make tons of content freely available via my web site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stager.org\">www.stager.org<\/a> and this <a href=\"http:\/\/stager.tv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blog<\/a>. I am happy to share my time, knowledge and ideas with colleagues. I answer questions from teachers and students via email. I speak at all sorts of events. As time permits, I\u00a0 even share video and audio podcasts of presentations via my web site. Then at least my ideas will be shared with the context, inflection and even jokes I intended.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just <em><strong>not<\/strong><\/em> my slides!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<pre>A version of this article was originally published in June 2008.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year I make dozens of presentations at educational events around the world. 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