"required reading" for chairs

[KSUViolet06]

I suggest creating a Power Point presentation of the most important things you want the guys to learn from the book, and presenting it at chapter meeting, officer training, rush workshop, or some other important event.

People have enough reading to do for school, I wouldn't give them required reading. They most likely wouldn't read it anyway. If you present it in some concise manner, then they have the opportunity to learn from the book without having to read the whole thing.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

I suggest creating a Power Point presentation

Unless you're one of the rare people gifted with the ability to use PowerPoint effectively......no.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Unless you're one of the rare people gifted with the ability to use PowerPoint effectively......no.

Who can't make an effective Power Point? A moron?

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Who can't make an effective Power Point? A moron?

I would say a good 90% of the population should not use PP. Sure, any moron can put a few slides together and read the info off of them at people, but that's not how PP should be used. You should use it for MAIN points, charts, graphs, graphics, etc...but generally, people slap their speech outline, or heck, even their whole speech on there and then read it to the audience like a 1st grade reading lesson. B-O-R-I-N-G. Just as bad as having to read selfhelp books and do book reports on them.

[skylark]

I totally agree -- PP should be used as an aid, not as a documentation of everything you're going to say. I recently had to sit through a Powerpoint presentation that was little more than taking information and adding bullet points. The presenter pretty much just read the slides. In the end, many people in the meeting stopped listening, and then all the information ended up being repeated afterwards when people were given the chance to ask questions. In the end, the entire presentation was a waste of time because the info had to be represented in a way that everyone could digest.

PP can be effective, but only if you're going to incorporate some type of multimedia content into the presentation or you have some other reason why having one will be really powerful. PP is not just an excuse to show that you know how to find silly graphics online and know how to use a projector.