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Powerpoint Karaoke

Delivering random presentations from the internet is an idea I've heard and discussed a couple of times as past time activity at scientific workshops. We never actually went as far as selecting the slide shows and presenting them though. Now, after visiting a public show recently, I realized that Powerpoint Karaoke is both good fun and useful training and recommended activity for retreats or a night with the department's beamer in the seminar room.
Powerpoint Karaoke (by Riesenmaschine.de)
You need to prepare a selection of slide shows (filetype:ppt in Google and a random keyword works for me) but that should be good fun already. Agree on or impose a voting system, the less objective, the better, just to make sure that people don't take it overly seriously.
Pedro Beltrao (guest) - 2006-01-27 13:30

Black seminar

We call them black seminars. We did it once in a group party. Everyone prepared a slide show (mostly not science related images) and each one randomly selected one to present. It is a lot of fun actually although it may sound geeky if you try to explain it.

spitshine - 2006-01-27 14:24

Thought that the idea might have been implemented by one or the other group of geeks out there. Guess it had to be a black seminars after the pink seminars are already taken (excuse the Emblish).
konrad (guest) - 2006-01-28 20:19

...perfect for the retreat tomorrow

Sounds great! I will make a proposal to have a Powerpoint Karaoke session at our biocomputing retreat tomorrow. Cheers.

Konrad (guest) - 2006-04-25 13:34

...perfect for the retreat tomorrow
Sounds great! I will make a proposal to have a Powerpoint Karaoke session at our biocomputing retreat tomorrow. Cheers.
Ian Holmes (guest) - 2006-01-29 03:41

I first heard of this from Suzi Lewis

she's organised Genome Karaoke at the CSHL Genome Informatics conference a few times, I believe

John Day-Richter (developer of OBO-Edit) is particularly good at it, perhaps because he's a standup comic (bioinformatics is a day job...)

spitshine - 2006-01-29 13:30

Is it called "Genome Karaoke"?

After I learned that Pedro's group calls it "black seminar" with a slightly different setup - are the rules for the Genome Karaoke similar and is it actually called so? I couldn't find anything online.

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