I’m 28 and have no idea what a slide deck is. Is that somehow the new term for a PowerPoint presentation?
Ironically, it’s a very old term for a powerpoint presentation. Presentations used to be done with actual photographic slides in a projector. They were stored in a deck of slides.
I only know this from Mad Men.
It’s a carousel of slides, you heathen.
Carousels came later :P
Chu Chu Chunk.
Hijacking this because you’re top comment and everyone is talking about the origin of the term (the thing you load into a projector back in the days of physical slides), but no one’s answering the actual question as intended:
“Slide Deck” is the term used for the series of slides shown during a presentation, but “Presentation” refers to the whole performance, including non-slide elements like speeches and demos
A lot of presentations are made today with Keynote, Google Slides or LibreOffice Impress.
Someday, my friends, presentations made and saved in Markdown will be king, and we can forget about opening slow programs to edit them.
Yes, somehow the world will be a better place when everything is a plaintext document. At least that’s how I imagine it.
Incidentally, there was a cool python program for presenting pdfs I used years ago. I wonder if it or similar are still in vogue somewhere.
And most adhesive bandages aren’t part of the Band-Aid brand, but we call them band-aids anyway.
What’s a “web search”? Is that somehow the new term for googling?
“Slide deck” is an old person term, not a young person term.
If anything calling it a slide deck makes you sound old.
Not quite…the term has actually come back around again.
Should have called them “overhead projector sheets” and pushed them all into utter confusion.
I’m a 32 year old teacher and I want an overhead projector.
A dry erase transparency is much easier to write on than the white board. My macro handwriting is awful, students can barely read what I write on the board. So I always end up writing on a peice of paper on my desk, and I have my phone on a tripod so I can get a “top down shot” of me writing on the paper, then I screen cast that to the smart board.
It works, I can write legibly by writing in a normal size, and then enlarge it for the class to read fairly quickly… Once all the cameras and casting is set up.
But it would be so much easier to just have an overhead projector, a few transparencies and a dry erase marker. Roll it out, plug it in, aim and focus the lens, then I’m done. Plus then if the internet goes out I could still use the board!
Accidentally called it a power point and not an open document presentation (the n00bs in my class don’t know the difference between Keynote, PowerPoint and Impress)
Now everyone know you use proprietary software.
What the helll is a slide deck
This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards… it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the wheel, it’s called the carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved.
Was I supposed to read that in Rod Sterling’s voice?
Madmen. John Hamm. Great actor. Also dragged a fraternity pledge by his scrotum with a claw hammer, set him on fire, fled the state to escape charges, and to this day never apologized.
Love is never having to apologise.
For some reason I am now wondering if overhead projectors are still called overhead projectors…
Overhead projectors don’t exist anymore, they’ve been replaced by video projectors mounted overhead.
So… They still have overhead projectors they just aren’t overhead projectors?
One is referring to the placement of the projector itself, one is referring to the placement of the mirror that projects the image.
I think it is this:
Wow. This shit is a lot more complicated than I thought.
I’m 34 and I’ve never even heard the term “slide deck”. Is that some apple shit?
A slide deck is the analogue version of a PowerPoint.
The deck is the rotating ring that you drop your slides into, then project them on the wall with what is essentially just an overhead projector designed to take small vertical slides of film loaded into the deck, instead of just using transparent sheets.
You’d design all your little film slides, arrange them in order in the deck (think, deck of cards). The deck is what let you automatically swap between slides by pressing the remote to rotate the deck and reveal the next slide to the projector lens.
I’m 32 but my school was broke as fuck so we were still using overheads and slide decks in 2005.
Yup:
Same
Can everyone see my screen? Okay good. I put literal paragraphs of stuff into my presentation, and I’m going to read it all to you verbatim. This is much better than email.
Now I can put presentation skills on my resume.
