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
It looks like you’re right. Apparently, some dude on Madison Avenue cooked up that name to help them sell.
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.
And most adhesive bandages aren’t part of the Band-Aid brand, but we call them band-aids anyway.
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.
What’s a “web search”? Is that somehow the new term for googling?
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:
I’m 50 and grew up with slide presentations and I’ve never used the term slide deck. Maybe I’ve heard it? but it doesn’t really hit home at all.
I’m a little younger, and still remember slides and transparencies and all that, and I’ve heard “slide deck” a bunch in recent years, AND it still sounds so alien and wrong to me!
I think calling each page a “slide” sounds better somehow, like “hey Bob can you send me that powerpoint slide with the pie chart?”
Yeah I use the word slide that way. I’m rejecting slide deck as a term. We have to remember veto power when it comes to language.
You mean a slide show?
Same
“Slide deck” is an old person term, not a young person term.
If anything calling it a slide deck makes you sound old.
My experience the last few years is that being old makes everything you say sound old.
Not quite…the term has actually come back around again.
It’s like calling your remote a “clicker”. A term that is still used but only by the old crowd.
I call the game controllers “remotes”. I don’t think my kids like me.
Or the even crazier regional usage of “button box”.
Both “clicker” and “slide deck” made a resurgence, these are definitely not exclusively old terms.
Everything is cyclical. My mum took the piss out of my baggy jeans in the early 00s cos they looked like 70s bell bottoms.
Skinny jeans replaced them but hey ho - baggy jeans are coming back again!
My wife is at the stage in her career where this is relevant. When thinking back about the phrasing she uses, when making content for someone else to present she commonly says “I need to finish making these slides”. When she is putting together content for her to present herself, she says “I need to finish making this presentation”.
All that said to say, I feel like the terms are related, not the same.
Just my two cents.
slide deck
… a what?
Often shortened to deck. Sounds similar enough to dick that you can just say dick and no one notices. You get to go around taking about showing people your dick all the time then giggle about it.
I asked a Zoomer to send me a PPT and he didn’t know what I was talking about.
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.
As opposed to being like, 60 instead? Cuz that’s the demographic I’d think of as using the term “slide deck”.
Edward Tufte, of Information is Beautiful fame, generally advises AGAINST using PowerPoint for presentations largely because of the low information density. Powerpoint, generally, forces you to put a LOW amount of information on the screen which can really be a problem in some situations.
His advice: Create a Word doc and give that as a handout.
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.
Is this something like a slide rule?
more like slide deez nuts
I’ll show myself out
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.
Or smart whiteboard things or actual TVs
Or the fancier “elmos”
And it’s a problem to be 40?
Hey! Gimme my flag back and stop copying my style! 😤
Yup step aside old man
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.
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!
