Re: handouts at GWA talks

**"* <d*@comcast.net>**

Kirk,

Printed slides make me crazy, too. I can only remember one lecture where 
having the slides was useful, and that was because the speaker was so 
boring, reading all of the slides, that I nodded off.

It should be easy for the organization to prohibit (or not pay for) the 
printing of  PPT slide pages while encouraging short and sweet handouts. Key 
points, plant names, and resource and contact URLs are very useful to me, as 
well as a bit of blank margin to make notes.

Daryl Pulis
Manager, CompuServe/Netscape Gardening Forum
(The oldest gardening forum on the web)
http://community.netscape.com/gardening

> The "NEW" policy was drawn up based on the migraine-inducing trend at
> national conferences for many speakers to expect the venue/hosts to
> reproduce 20 double-sided pages of bulleted power point slides spit out by
> their presentation.  There is no editing involved and there is definitely 
> no
> obvious use for the wasted materials.  I also resent any presenter that
> telegraphs his/her presentation by reproducing all of the lecture slides 
> as
> a handout.  But that hasn't stopped them.  Nothing seems to be stopping
> them--and the numbers are growing exponentially as this winter conference
> season approaches.

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