I'm not anti-Powerpoint (or Keynote) by any means--far from it--but I am frequently disappointed by the material that people use it to frame. I promised a link to an essay on this matter by the rather wonderful Edward Tufte: The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint. This isn't the article itself, sadly (for which you'll have to pay a pretty nominal sum), but if this is your introduction to ET's work, enjoy!
I shall invite Ingrid Pearson (a colleague at RCM) across to Guildhall for lunch and an afternoon reviewing Keynote-framed arguments (what an offer, eh?) to see if I can persuade her not only that it's not the software's fault that these things turn out badly more often than we'd like (which she already knows, of course), but--a bigger challenge--that Keynote can actually contribute to the development of an elegant and memorable argument.
More seriously, pro- or anti-slide software aside, how do we frame practice-based research arguments successfully? The doctoral student presentations at 'MIDAS VII' were certainly food for thought.
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