{"id":85,"date":"2015-04-26T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/2015\/04\/26\/its-a-presentation-not-a\/"},"modified":"2017-07-20T10:48:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T10:48:33","slug":"its-a-presentation-not-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/its-a-presentation-not-a\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a presentation not a&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Take your phone out and have a look at it. You could use it to hammer in a nail. You could use it as a coaster for a hot coffee cup. You could pop it under a wobbly table leg to balance it. You could, but you wouldn&#8217;t because it really is not the right tool for the job. The only purpose for a presentation (p2) file is as supportive media to your presentation (p1).<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.bgr.com\/2013\/09\/iphone-5-smashed-cracked.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.bgr.com\/2013\/09\/iphone-5-smashed-cracked.jpg\" height=\"356\" width=\"640\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">There is no place for using a presentation as part of a summative assessment demanding it is full of data and references. That is a word document. There is no place using a presentation as a handout. That is a slideument. There is no place using a presentation as a script. That is just wrong. There is no place sending a presentation as an email attachment to someone who couldn&#8217;t attend the presentation (p cubed). That is a video. There is no place using a presentation as a poster. That is a publisher file.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">The stuff that goes onto slideware is supportive media (p2) for the delivery (p3) of the story (p1), nothing else.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take your phone out and have a look at it. You could use it to hammer in a nail. You could use it as a coaster for a hot coffee cup. You could pop it under a wobbly table leg to balance it. 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