Can everyone see my screen? Okay good. I put literal paragraphs of stuff into my presentation, and I’m going to read it all to you verbatim. This is much better than email.
Now I can put presentation skills on my resume.
I’m the first person to say “this meeting should’ve been an email”, but often it’s because I’m slated as “required” on something I’d otherwise be a Cc on.
The reason for those, though, is because people don’t read their emails. Especially not the long winded verbose ones that actually explain things.
You want to tell people things, put it in an email. If you want them to understand it, call a meeting.
I’m 28 and have no idea what a slide deck is. Is that somehow the new term for a PowerPoint presentation?
Ironically, it’s a very old term for a powerpoint presentation. Presentations used to be done with actual photographic slides in a projector. They were stored in a deck of slides.
I only know this from Mad Men.
It’s a carousel of slides, you heathen.
Carousels came later :P
It looks like you’re right. Apparently, some dude on Madison Avenue cooked up that name to help them sell.
Chu Chu Chunk.
So what he’s saying is everyone in his company is 90 and he was fooling them into thinking he’s 90 too
Hijacking this because you’re top comment and everyone is talking about the origin of the term (the thing you load into a projector back in the days of physical slides), but no one’s answering the actual question as intended:
“Slide Deck” is the term used for the series of slides shown during a presentation, but “Presentation” refers to the whole performance, including non-slide elements like speeches and demos
Perhaps it’s geography which is missing from this conversation.
SF Bay Area techies will say slide deck all the time.
A lot of presentations are made today with Keynote, Google Slides or LibreOffice Impress.
And most adhesive bandages aren’t part of the Band-Aid brand, but we call them band-aids anyway.
Someday, my friends, presentations made and saved in Markdown will be king, and we can forget about opening slow programs to edit them.
Yes, somehow the world will be a better place when everything is a plaintext document. At least that’s how I imagine it.
Incidentally, there was a cool python program for presenting pdfs I used years ago. I wonder if it or similar are still in vogue somewhere.
What’s a “web search”? Is that somehow the new term for googling?
I’m barely in my 20s and I don’t even know what a slide deck is lol.
“Slide deck” is an old person term, not a young person term.
If anything calling it a slide deck makes you sound old.
Not quite…the term has actually come back around again.
It’s like calling your remote a “clicker”. A term that is still used but only by the old crowd.
Both “clicker” and “slide deck” made a resurgence, these are definitely not exclusively old terms.
Everything is cyclical. My mum took the piss out of my baggy jeans in the early 00s cos they looked like 70s bell bottoms.
Skinny jeans replaced them but hey ho - baggy jeans are coming back again!
Their origin is old is the point. They refer back to an old technology and no longer applies since todays remotes don’t click. I think a “resurgence” is going a bit far.
Or the even crazier regional usage of “button box”.
I call the game controllers “remotes”. I don’t think my kids like me.
My experience the last few years is that being old makes everything you say sound old.
For sure especially anything related to technological advancements.
Slide deck refers to the old film projectors, which no one uses anymore except old people. So of course youngsters will have zero clue what a slide deck is. There is no use for this term anymore and it’s dying along with its technology.
I’m 34 and I’ve never even heard the term “slide deck”. Is that some apple shit?
A slide deck is the analogue version of a PowerPoint.
The deck is the rotating ring that you drop your slides into, then project them on the wall with what is essentially just an overhead projector designed to take small vertical slides of film loaded into the deck, instead of just using transparent sheets.
You’d design all your little film slides, arrange them in order in the deck (think, deck of cards). The deck is what let you automatically swap between slides by pressing the remote to rotate the deck and reveal the next slide to the projector lens.
I’m 32 but my school was broke as fuck so we were still using overheads and slide decks in 2005.
Yup:
Oh man I’ve not seen one of these since I was a kid. I can literally hear this photo.
I’m 50 and grew up with slide presentations and I’ve never used the term slide deck. Maybe I’ve heard it? but it doesn’t really hit home at all.
I’m a little younger, and still remember slides and transparencies and all that, and I’ve heard “slide deck” a bunch in recent years, AND it still sounds so alien and wrong to me!
I think calling each page a “slide” sounds better somehow, like “hey Bob can you send me that powerpoint slide with the pie chart?”
Yeah I use the word slide that way. I’m rejecting slide deck as a term. We have to remember veto power when it comes to language.
You mean a slide show?
27, never heard slide deck
Same
slide deck
… a what?
Often shortened to deck. Sounds similar enough to dick that you can just say dick and no one notices. You get to go around taking about showing people your dick all the time then giggle about it.
common term in corpo speak. Because people use GSlides much more often down.
Also Apple. Keynote (Mac’s version of PowerPoint/GSlides) has an entire section of templates dedicated to the “Pitch Deck” category. For when you’re trying to pitch an idea to management.
For when you’re trying to pitch an idea to management.
Or get VC funding.
Or sell something.
pedantry for the sake of it
Not really. It seems weird to me that someone would think of a “pitch deck” that way.
As opposed to being like, 60 instead? Cuz that’s the demographic I’d think of as using the term “slide deck”.
My wife is at the stage in her career where this is relevant. When thinking back about the phrasing she uses, when making content for someone else to present she commonly says “I need to finish making these slides”. When she is putting together content for her to present herself, she says “I need to finish making this presentation”.
All that said to say, I feel like the terms are related, not the same.
Just my two cents.
Edward Tufte, of Information is Beautiful fame, generally advises AGAINST using PowerPoint for presentations largely because of the low information density. Powerpoint, generally, forces you to put a LOW amount of information on the screen which can really be a problem in some situations.
His advice: Create a Word doc and give that as a handout.
I asked a Zoomer to send me a PPT and he didn’t know what I was talking about.
Accidentally called it a power point and not an open document presentation (the n00bs in my class don’t know the difference between Keynote, PowerPoint and Impress)
Now everyone know you use proprietary software.
I had to, because the school basically forced us to use iPads and not any other tablets or laptops. And those don’t have OpenOffice, and Apples apps are crap. So M$ Office it was. Now I can use my Laptop, and I felt dirty starting wine on it because it polluted my nice Arch (btw) home and cmd is so much worse than bash.
Do you do crossfit?
No, because then I wouldn’t be an overweight neckbeard spending half their time on customizing and fixing Arch. Which I am.
It’s only a true power point if it was grown in the Power Point region of North America. Otherwise it’s just a sparkling digital slide show.
What the helll is a slide deck
This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards… it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the wheel, it’s called the carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved.
Was I supposed to read that in Rod Sterling’s voice?
Madmen. John Hamm. Great actor. Also dragged a fraternity pledge by his scrotum with a claw hammer, set him on fire, fled the state to escape charges, and to this day never apologized.
Love is never having to apologise.
I can hear this image.
Okay, so are we among 80 year olds who still can’t computer, or are we among 20 year olds who either don’t use Microsoft Office or are trying to stop using Microsoft branding for the concept of presentations?
Should have called them “overhead projector sheets” and pushed them all into utter confusion.
I’m a 32 year old teacher and I want an overhead projector.
A dry erase transparency is much easier to write on than the white board. My macro handwriting is awful, students can barely read what I write on the board. So I always end up writing on a peice of paper on my desk, and I have my phone on a tripod so I can get a “top down shot” of me writing on the paper, then I screen cast that to the smart board.
It works, I can write legibly by writing in a normal size, and then enlarge it for the class to read fairly quickly… Once all the cameras and casting is set up.
But it would be so much easier to just have an overhead projector, a few transparencies and a dry erase marker. Roll it out, plug it in, aim and focus the lens, then I’m done. Plus then if the internet goes out I could still use the board!
I bet it would be every bit as good as you think. I had a math teacher back in middle school ~30 years ago who taught EVERY lesson by talking as he wrote things on a transparency on the overhead projector.
We have great tech for that stuff now, but the projector and markers feels very human-compatible in an analog way. Kind of like reading a book I guess.
I still find it funny how some technological ‘upgrades’ just don’t do things as well as older tech. In university I had a touch screen laptop with a pen - the finger touch wasn’t as good as now (pressure I think, rather than capacitative, and none of the fancy tricks like two finger) but the pen just worked great for me for writing. When touch screens became fashion for laptops for a while that sounded great… but they couldn’t at all do the job I lost in my stylus-input Toshiba. And, as a Toshiba, it was decent generally as a not too expensive laptop.
I was lucky that about the time I got it, Linux support was coming out for Wacom tablets. (Which is what was integrated in the screen, I guess.) Incidentally, Xournal turned out way better than any of the programs I had on Windows for writing/drawing and for annotating PDFs. Including Microsoft Office’s “One-somethingorother” (I forget the name now.) The Office one was so unexpectedly clunky, and also less powerful. Ah, shame I don’t have much use for Xournal these days with no pen input screen. …Oh, except every time I have to fill in a pdf form, if it’s not set up or not set up right. Xournal is more clunky for that task than I’d hope from a pdf annotator, but it just works when other things don’t.
… Sorry, nostalgic rant over.
And it’s a problem to be 40?
Yup step aside old man
Hey! Gimme my flag back and stop copying my style! 😤
Yeah, knock it off.
