Another Lessig Slide Presentation using Keynote - 5 mins only (posted by ~Aja)

In this blog, we hope to not only expose you to alternative forms of PowerPoint presentations, but also give you a balance perspective as to what others on the Web are saying about a particular method.  So, what are people saying about "The Lessig Method" of presentation?

In the blog posting, Lessig Method presentation, Wesley Fryer writes, "Lessig is a powerful communicator using 21st century presentation tools."

See reference website:
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2005/12/13/lessig-method-presentation/

James Grimmelmann of LawMeme maintains the following:
Larry Lessig as PowerPoint Virtuoso

Larry is one of the most extraordinary PowerPoint virtuouso I've seen. Its not just the white-on black typwriter font. He uses phrases as anchors into his talk: the slide are signposts that let you glance up and pull out key words and ideas from his talk. He's also brillant at taking slides he's previously shown and modifing them to put new twists on those ideas. At the DRM conference, he changed background colors to show the expansion of copyright; today, he played with color and placement of text. When he flips through the slides showing copyright terms in various years, it's almost an animation. And when he's talking about old films decaying and disappearing, he uses a blank black slide.

See reference website:
http://www.ventureblog.com/2003/07/putting-the-power-in-powerpoint.html and
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/02/on_why_i_am_not_running.html


Stephen O' Grady of Redmonk.com makes 3 main points about the Lessig Method:

• The Lessig Method is Hard:

... Shifts the burden of presentation from the deck to the speaker.  With only a couple of words or a phrase on each slide, there are no talking points to cover except what you've written down before ... So either you write out your whole talk ahead of time - which can be hugely time consuming, or your practice it enough that you can remember all the references, transitions, etc. in simple terms, designing a minimalist deck, paradoxically, takes me a lot more time than it would to generate a conventional one.

• The Lessig Method Makes the Standalone Deck Relevant:

One of the most common criticism of my presentations was that the slides were more or less useless without speaker's note. Given that there were no spaeker's notes, there's not much I can provide them. But if you're going to present a minimalist deck with the intent of rdistribution, some thoughts should go into providing the accompanying audio.

• The Lessig Method may make You More Creative:

... The medium of slides tends to frame your arguments. For example, while designing slides it's natural to think in terms of bulleted lists - even if that's not the most complelling way to make your argument ... Slides can, if you let them, restrict discourse and creativity. The Lessig method doesn't solve that problem, but it gives you more of a blank slate to work from than your typical Powerpoint template.

See reference website:
http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2005/10/27/some-notes-on-the-lessig-method/