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1. halcy​:icosahedron: (halcy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Thursday, 13-Dec-2018 01:42:48 JST halcy​:icosahedron:

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   @theoutrider 16:10 slides look terrible (tiny) on a 4:3 projector, 4:3 slides look just fine on a 16:10 projector. Unless you know that the projector your slides will be shown with is 16:10, 4:3 is the correct choice, and since projectors are not switched out often, you generally have to assume it could be a 4:3 projector, making 4:3 almost always the correct choice.

   • halcy​:icosahedron: (halcy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Thursday, 13-Dec-2018 01:46:32 JST halcy​:icosahedron:

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     @theoutrider this is verbatim what I give students as feedback if they submit 16:10 slides for, well, anything.

     It's unfortunate honestly because 16:10 slides can look neat, but if you present at any conference or even in a room you don't know, 16:10 slides with normal size text might turn into very small 16:10 slides with very hard to read small text, and That's Just Not Good

   • halcy​:icosahedron: (halcy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Thursday, 13-Dec-2018 01:57:22 JST halcy​:icosahedron:

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     @theoutrider (other things to keep in mind are:

     * the projector is PROBABLY very bad at representing colours so never ever use only colour to transport information, especially not colours that are similar like red and orange
     * your (young, healthy) small and your audiences (a professor, old, has spent 50 years staring at a monitor) small are probably different things. make your text bigger. even in your graphics.
     * if there aren't slide numbers I will _literally_ give you a very annoyed stare

   • halcy​:icosahedron: (halcy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Thursday, 13-Dec-2018 02:01:11 JST halcy​:icosahedron:

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     @theoutrider I grade presentations a lot which is why I basically have a bunch of canned feedback because somehow literally every student gets these things wrong and they waste time :| (like no slide numbers -> "I have a question about the slide with the graph no not that one the other one can you go two slides forward no that was too far")