My students were told to make 3 minute speeches, and the first thing they did was to come down with a bad case of powerpointitus. Bullet points down the left with a token picture on the right of each slide--it was clear they intended to read from their slideshow.
I had no intention of suffering death by powerpoint, but I didn't say anything to address the problem. Instead I showed them several episodes of IGNITE speeches that I had in my iTunes. [To subscribe to Ignite speeches, you go into iTunes, choose "store" on the left hand side, and search "ignite podcast."] Miraculously, the next time we went down to the lab, they all deleted all their silly bullet points and started making a much nicer presentation.
The power of a good example.
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