PowerPoint Presentation - 1958 Style

[MineralMan]

If you are a PowerPoint aficionado, it wasn't always so easy to do a presentation for your audience. Wanna see how it was done back in the 1950s? Watch this instructional video and learn the secrets of powerful presentations from that time. It's worth watching. Really:

[kstewart33]

1. Interesting.

And what a reminder of how far we've come technologically in 60 years!

[MineralMan]

2. That's what's so fascinating.

When that film was made, I was in 8th grade. In 1963, I was taking FORTRAN programming classes at college. The revolution had begun.

It's been an amazing 50+ years, really. We've gone from nothing to truly amazing possibilities during my lifetime. It's a good exercise to look back at how we did things not that long ago.

[kstewart33]

9. You bet.

I remember how different things were through the 1960s. Makes you wonder what the next 50 years will bring.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Even the names have chagned.

Today E. Milton Grassell sounds old fashioned.
I am wondering what the "E" stands for, in that he prefers not to use it. Elmer???

[chowder66]

3. That's great! I was perusing old newspapers and thought about twitter

while reviewing the gossip or 'around town' news items. Many papers would also have world and national news bits in short form. Granted you couldn't reply but it got the information out there and was repeated in numerous publications.

[DonaldsRump]

4. My favorite pre-PowerPoint PowerPoint

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Happy Sunday!

[denbot]

14. + 1

[Shanti Mama]

5. I love how slow the pace is

We are all so FAST these days.

[LeftInTX]

6. Our teachers were in the modern age...transparencies were all the rage

I sure don't miss dusty chalkboards...and eraser duty...

[The Genealogist]

7. Has it really been so long since the days of transparencies?

It seems like just yesterday when I was an undergrad, and some of the older profs would bring in yellowed, worn out transparencies and put them on the overhead projectors for student transcription with pen and paper. I know it wasn't just yesterday, but the mid-1990s.

I do miss certain things about the chalk boards. When I was an elementary school student, I enjoyed watching the teachers write on the board in their beautiful penmanship. There was something relaxing about it. Sometimes, they would get all fancy and use yellow chalk, instead of the plain old white!

[LeftInTX]

8. I graduated HS in 1974

I don't remember transparencies in elementary, but by the time I got to HS, they were popular.

[csziggy]

10. My high school art teacher used slide shows to teach about the great artists of history

She not only had to supply her own slides, but the projector and screen since the school did not have a slide projector and their screen was only booked with the film projector.

If she were teaching today she would use a computer with the images saved digitally. She'd probably still have to provide a projector so everyone in the class could see.

[erpowers]

12. Wow

We have come a long way in terms of giving presentations.

[libdem4life]

13. I watched my mother teach Jesus stories to youngsters in Sunday School.

She was awesome. The kids were entranced. I learned to do same, by 9 years old.

By the time I was an adult, we were inbetween this and the wall projectors with plastic slides...circa 1960-70s. Every school had one. You had to check it out. But it really held the kid's attention and you could really be creative.

Thanks for the memories.