Thinking about Tufte

Read the first part of Tufte's essay last night, and can't stop thinking about it.

I really don't like "presenting" using PowerPoint - listing bullets, etc. But, I have done it. In my ideal world (prior to reading the essay), my "presentations" were more about guided activities, and the slides were used to give directions.

But, I've been faced with giving a couple of "stand and deliver" types of presentations over the past year or so -not much time to really engage participants in an activity, and the goal of the presentation was more about sharing information.

I have a couple more presentations like this coming up in the fall. I am wondering what to do and if "telling a story" would make the presentation more interesting?

Tufte just made my presentations more challenging, but much more likely to engage the audience and me. I will never look at a PowerPoint slide the same again.