Guest Guest -- rhs Posted April 5, 2013 at 05:32 PM Report Share Posted April 5, 2013 at 05:32 PM While it's clear that a committee or officer giving a report or making a motion may use a powerpoint as part of the presentation, do voting members of an assembly have a right to use powerpoints when speaking from the floor in response to the report or motion?Thanks for any guidance you can give. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Hunt Posted April 5, 2013 at 05:33 PM Report Share Posted April 5, 2013 at 05:33 PM While it's clear that a committee or officer giving a report or making a motion may use a powerpoint as part of the presentation, do voting members of an assembly have a right to use powerpoints when speaking from the floor in response to the report or motion?Thanks for any guidance you can give.They (as is the case for committee members and officers) do not have a right; it is up to the assembly to decide whether or not they will accept a slideshow as part of debate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David A Foulkes Posted April 5, 2013 at 07:56 PM Report Share Posted April 5, 2013 at 07:56 PM While it's clear that a committee or officer giving a report or making a motion may use a powerpoint as part of the presentation....It is? Because........... why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Martin Posted April 5, 2013 at 08:19 PM Report Share Posted April 5, 2013 at 08:19 PM While it's clear that a committee or officer giving a report or making a motion may use a powerpoint as part of the presentation,It's not clear to me. The assembly controls its hall, so the assembly decides who (if anyone) may use Powerpoint as part of their presentation.do voting members of an assembly have a right to use powerpoints when speaking from the floor in response to the report or motion?No. It's at the discretion of the assembly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest -- rhs Posted April 10, 2013 at 08:19 PM Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 at 08:19 PM Thanks. In our meetings the convention has been to allow reports to present data tables and the like via powerpoint. My concern had been that powerpoints used to support arguments during debate could lead to the collapse of an orderly discussion if speakers were generally permitted to line up and project presentations.I think allowing it at the discretion of the assembly makes sense because that would allow one to challenge the notion that a speaker's or chair's assumption that powerpoints must be permitted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstackpo Posted April 10, 2013 at 08:27 PM Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 at 08:27 PM Seems to me that using powerpoint is the electronic equivalent of "read[ing] papers" -- p. 298 -- for which the permission of the assembly is definitely required.And FWIMBW, all most people do when giving powerpoint presentations is just read out loud from the slides anyway, in my experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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