Why I started Visu Presentations?

I am currently preparing for upcoming exams and was reviewing "printouts of lecture-slides" the last couple of days (some people call it "handout" or "script", but I will point out in later posts why I prefer the term "print-out" instead of "handout"). It came all back to me, why I started this endeavor I call Visu Presentations.
Someday I might look back and will thank my lecturers for the incentives they gave me to start blogging, tweeting and - soon! - creating content about a subject I like. Right now, I am not amused. It seems like they don't really care about delivering their favorite subject effectively to me and of course to my fellow students. I remembered why I stopped attending these lectures half way through term and started studying in my flat instead. Not because they were held at 6pm - an unfortunate time but still manageable. No, these lecturers, with all due respect to their field and expertise in it - did not seem to know how to deliver a engaging, effective, enlightening, engrossing and enthralling presentation or talk about their topic, their field. I certainly hope not, that they were not motivated enough. But, were they content with their own performance? I don't know.
Anyway, five times I strolled into the auditorium and was welcomed by two large screens, each displaying the first slide of yet another dull presentation - at first confusing for me, but I hoped that at least someone had put some thought into it and one screen wasn't enough.
So why were these presentations dull? Was I the only one, who though that way? Thankfully, no. We were presented with slides overloaded with text, bullet points and clip art. Worse still, sometimes the presenter was reading completely off the slides making the whole PowerPoint - at least for me - superfluous. During one lecture, I tried to only listen to the lecturer; another time, just focussing on the slides and essentially reading them like a book. Although, when one lecturer started to put multiple thoughts or points into one bullet point and separating them with semicolons and reading the whole presentation off the screen in a monotone voice, making it impossible to follow, I decided to go.
It struck me the same day, that I did not want to accept this and help anybody, who has problems with presentations. May it be the right use of the software, the final delivery, or the process as a whole. Teachers and lecturers are role models for students and in following presentations by us students that semester, I recognized certain attitudes: If they do it like this, it must be good enough for us to do it also. In team meetings preparing several presentations I realized how entangled we all were by the "black magic of PowerPoint".
Here were are at a point were I want to raise the attention of everyone, who thinks the ways of presenting I described above are sufficient and good. They are not and there are many people who agree with me on that (from what I found in my research about presentations creation and design).
Of course, there are lectures with great presentations and talks. I was fortunate enough to attend a couple. And to me, they prove to be more effective and retentive than the hails of bullet points some lectures expose their students to, everyday.
But what is different with these presentations? I will elaborate on the answers to that question in great detail and to an extent, where anybody will - hopefully - be able to present effectively to any audience.

Please keep coming back weekly reading this blog and exploring ways of effective presentation creation. I am positive that I will manage to keep posting weekly on Mondays throughout the upcoming exam period. So please keep reading, sharing and commenting. Maybe you have similar experiences or totally different ones in any way.
Have a great and fulfilling week.