8. Typical Boring Presentation
! Usually full of bullet points
! Usually uses a font too small to read
! Usually has a distracting background
! Often has long text way too stinking long to be a bullet point, but for some reason the
presenter doesn’t have the good sense to make it shorter so it goes on and on and on
… well, you get the point.
! Might try to incorporate APA style guidelines (Beck 2008, Slide presentation
principles for Foreign Language Educators. The 14th Annual Temple University,
Japan Campus Applied Linguistics Colloquium. Tokyo, Japan)
! Comes with a printed handout of the slides. Ugh.
! Presenter often reads the bullet points or long text while you nearly hit your head on
the table as drowsiness overcomes you
! Has a room full of people flipping through the schedule as they contemplate which
boring presentation they will attend next.
! Has even more bullet points with unnecessary points, but you can’t have TOO
MUCH text on the screen, can you?
9. Endless Bullet Points
• Bullet point
1
• Bullet point
2
• Bullet point
3
• Bullet point
4
• Bullet point
5
• Bullet point
6
• Bullet point
7
• Bullet point
8
• Bullet point
9
• Bullet point 1
0
• Bullet point 1
1
• Bullet point 12