Re: LCD Projectors

**j* e* m* s* <h*@sbcglobal.net>**

I couldn't agree with Tom more. I absolutely hate PowerPoint garden 
programs w/ text on the screen. I also may have a handout, I'm trying 
to listen to the speaker while figuring out if I need to make notes 
from the info on the screen. It's information overload. And, I still 
go back to my main complaint about PowerPoints for plants and that 
is, most of the time, the colors are very washed out. Also, I think 
PowerPoints are a lot more susceptible to ambient light than slides.

But, like the rest of you, I'm moving to PowerPoints because of how 
easy they are to assemble from digital images. I'm now having all of 
my film put on a CD in high resolution when getting processed. (I'm 
getting close to even buying a digital camera, especially when I read 
that the SLRs should be down to about one-third of what they are now 
by the end of the year.) However, I do not put any text on the screen 
in PowerPoints, except maybe the plant name, which also is on the 
slide list or handout that I've provided the audience. I always leave 
some room on the handout for people to take notes and I try to make 
sure there's enough (dim) light for them to do so.

And, like Tom, I try to take a sampling of the plants I'm talking 
about, such as stems, flowers or foliage. Sometimes I go to a 
friendly garden center and borrow plants. I may not have samples of 
each plants...more of a "sampler." Sometimes, people buy the plants, 
which encourages the garden center to continue lending me the plants.

jems

>      I was watching some TV sitcom two nights ago, and one of the characters
>joked about someone they knew using PowerPoint in a lecture...said something
>like, "Sure, it would have been cool, if this were 1996."
>     I use it myself sometime, but for the most part find it soooooooo
>BORING! Especially when there is text on the PowerPoint & then the "speaker"
>reads all this same text out loud, word for word....real sleeper material.
>     More and more I'm trying to get back to what I used to do: use some
>interesting plants as props and actually talk to/with my audience.
>
>Tom
>www.allergyfree-gardening.com
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "C.L. Fornari" <clfornari@mail.com>
>To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum"
><gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 6:13 PM
>Subject: [GWL] LCD Projectors
>
>
>>
>>  Dear All,
>>  When I speak in larger venues I present with Powerpoint or Keynote, and
>use a projector that they provide.  For garden clubs I've continued to use
>slides, but clearly those days are numbered.  I will need, in the next year
>or less, to buy an LCD projector to take from gig to gig.  Any
>recommendations?  I need one that will be good (bright - clear when
>projected 15 to 30 feet away) when I speak to groups of 100 to 150
>people...I don't have to worry about the times I present to the large
>audiences because those have the projector in place.  Suggestions
>appreciated.
>>  C.L.
>>
>>  C.L. Fornari
>  > www.gardenlady.com

-- 
Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
Garden writer, author, photographer
Region III Director Garden Writers Association
Phone: (317) 251.3261
Fax: (317) 251.8545
E-mail: hoosiergardener@sbcglobal.net

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