{"id":475,"date":"2008-03-13T03:15:34","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T09:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/475\/barack-obama-yes-we-can-a-powerpoint-deck"},"modified":"2014-09-23T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T15:28:08","slug":"barack-obama-yes-we-can-a-powerpoint-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/barack-obama-yes-we-can-a-powerpoint-deck\/475\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama, Yes We Can\u009d: A PowerPoint Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a296a24fa2fc69ef5487857f02f111e8\" data-index=\"9\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Single Post readerboard -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8207522353004717\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1144967431\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/totalitarian-powerpoint\/189\/\" title=\"powerpoint and edward tufte\">PowerPoint is a world of incomplete sentences<\/a>, fragmented thoughts, unemotional, dispassionate, and semantically-empty byte-size blob of consultant-speak.<\/p>\n<p>Okay &#8212; maybe that tone is too strong but, generally, PowerPoint is not the most effective medium of communication.\u00a0 I think most people would agree with that.\u00a0 There are ways to communicate and effective ways of creating an atmosphere of discussion and debate with PowerPoint, but most people don&#8217;t use PowerPoint for that purpose.\u00a0 It&#8217;s unfortunate.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written about this before &#8212; how <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/gratuitous-clipart\/315\/\">Bezos doesn&#8217;t allow PowerPoint in meetings with him and considers gratuitous clipart\u00a0 to be anathema, and how Edward Tufte argues strongly and effectively against PowerPoint<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Imagine putting some of the world&#8217;s most moving and inspiring speeches in PowerPoint format.\u00a0\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t it be a tragedy if Martin Luther King&#8217;s &#8220;Freedom&#8221; or &#8220;I have a Dream&#8221; or &#8220;Letter from Birmingham Jail&#8221; was a PowerPoint deck?\u00a0 What about the United States Constitution as a PowerPoint deck?\u00a0 Or, Winston Churchill&#8217;s famous &#8220;Never, Never, Never Give Up&#8221; speech as a PowerPoint deck?\u00a0 Or, General Douglas Macarthur&#8217;s famous &#8220;Build Me a Son&#8221; prayer as a PowerPoint deck?<\/p>\n<p>Well, one of the more recent and highly acclaimed and inspiring speeches in modern day is the &#8220;Yes We Can&#8221; speech by Barack Obama.\u00a0 It is an amazing and inspiring speech.\u00a0 To test my hypothesis that <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/gratuitous-clipart\/315\/\">PowerPoint as an information medium isn&#8217;t the best<\/a>, I decided to completely do Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Yes We Can&#8221; speech injustice by putting it into PowerPoint format.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the &#8220;Deck&#8221; and, as you&#8217;ll see, the PowerPoint version completely strips the speech of any life, emotion, inspiration, and meaning; in other words, PowerPoint is doing what it does well.\u00a0 Here is a link to the video speech (I strongly urge you to watch this) and you can find the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/01\/26\/obama.transcript\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">free-text transcript of the Barack Obama &#8220;Yes We Can&#8221; 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