How Many Slides? The Sky Is the Limit.

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When Scott McCloud launched his book

Making Comics

he took his family on a year-long, 50-state road trip

touring and signing books. At each venue, his 13-year-old

daughter Sky delivered a presentation. She wasn’t intimi-

dated by the standing-room-only crowds; this kid was

better than most adults. She had strong delivery skills,

commanding stage presence, and a brilliant understand-

ing of the format.

Unbeknownst to her, she used what’s been coined as the

Lessig Method of presenting. Lawrence Lessig, Professor

of Law at Stanford and founder of Creative Commons,

employs a signature, fast-paced delivery style with

an enormous amount of slides. Each slide has one big

idea on it.

So how many slides are right for a pre-

sentation? In Sky’s short 8-minute talk,

she used more than 200 slides, delivered

with an engaging cadence.

This quickly paced style isn’t easy and requires practice.

In fact, it’s more common for presenters to display one

slide every two minutes. But even that rule of thumb

goes only so far. Some presenters require as many as

four slides per minute while others will linger on any

given slide for four minutes. The point is to use as many

slides as you need to get your message across. And

please, try to stick with one point per slide. Anything

else demands more than most audiences will give.

It was exciting to watch such a young person grasp this

communication medium with such authority. Out of the

“mouse” of babes comes such great wisdom!

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Sky McCloud

Daughter of Scott McCloud

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