Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] MS Powerpoint is a killer

[Mary Gardiner <mary-slug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2003, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> > > I've been looking for the Shakespeare Powerpoint presentation
> > > which does Shakespeare's great monologues as dodgy powerpoint
> > > slides.  A great example of how NOT to use Powerpoint.
> > > 
> > > It did the rounds a few years back but now I can't find it :(
> > 
> > I have no idea about the Shakespeare one
> 
> OK, in that happy time gap I am occupying while my code runs, I found
> http://home.nyc.rr.com/dradosh/ppaol.html - "The PowerPoint Anthology
> of Literature" - via the Google query "hamlet powerpoint".
> 
> It might or might not be the site you wanted of course... if not
> someone else has had the same idea.

The same search gives us "PowerPoint Shakespeare: Cultural Resource for
Busy Executives": http://bmillar1.users.btopenworld.com/hamletppt1.pdf
[2MB]

I feel though that my own Hamlet summary
(http://puzzling.org/writing/hsc/hamlet -- written as HSC preparation in
1998) has little more life than either of these, despite me being free
to express myself in long sentences, thus proving that you can butcher
great works in extended prose too!

This is my last Shakespeare PowerPoint post.

-Mary