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Presentation slides are optional. A presentation is not a set of slides: It is about someone having something to say to an audience. Creating slides is therefore less important than planning the ...

I always found it difficult to stay awake during slide shows in grade school. The combination of a darkened classroom, a teacher’s voice and the whirr-clunk sound of the circular slide mechanism made ...