Presentation Zen

There's a lot of really useful info in this book. As someone who has, in the past, created absolutely terrible teaching slides, there's a lot in here for me to incorporate. The last third got a bit repetitive, though.

I've enjoyed the Presentation Zen site for quite a while. So, when I saw that the author of that site had put out a book, I had to take a look.

Like all of the stuff on his site and in conference presentations, etc. I've really found his message to be one that resonates with me. I'm still struggling with how to apply the "zen" approach to Powerpoint in more technical presentations, as opposed to the inspirational and conceptual presentations that dominate the examples, but it's clearly a direction in which to strive.

The book is in keeping with the website content, and bundles it together quite nicely. Much like the presentations themselves, the book makes really good use of white space, vivid photographs and nice layouts.

If you're still using the standard bullet-point layouts from Powerpoint (and the default Keynote layouts aren't really any better, FYI), you should definitely read this one.