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PowerPoint Bad For Learning
cute-boy writes "This article in the Sydney Morning Herald reporting on research done at The University of NSW suggests the use of Microsoft PowerPoint (and similar products) in lectures and meetings actually makes it harder to absorb facts, rather than being a reinforcement of key points."
Oh wait,.......
Slide 2: Cheese
Slide 3: Conclusion
Thank you, I will now take questions from the audience.
I wonder if I use bold in my signature, people will notice my posts.
Edward Tufte would like to have a word with you.
And not a Microsoft Word, an actual Word.
"Sacrifice for the good of The State" - The State
Power corrupts. Powerpoint corrupts absolutely.
--Edward Tufte
The University of NSFW...? ohh man now that was a powerpoint I wanted to see!
Of course, it has nothing whatsoever with my ability to understand or the ability of the author to communicate, it all the fault of the tool used.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Yep. Waiting for twenty minutes while the presenter screws around trying to get the laptop to reboot (nervously joking about it the whole time) and THEN sitting through that jerk reading his slides verbatim.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
I've had university classes where the prof literally read from the book. I'd look at my notes and realize I'd just copied pages from my text book.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
You made 6 points in that post, violating your own rule 4. Did those people who were teaching you "how to effectively communicate using power point and extremely long course titles that specify all the course content inculding the final examn paper" have more than 4 points to make?
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Rarely is the question asked: "Is our users learning?"
This is your brain.
This is your brain on PowerPoi...what was the question again?
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
I prefer Steve Ballmer's method of interpretive dance.
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That sounds a lot like my software engineering "class"
Sounds like you had the same professor I did...
I am d3matt
you forgot.
add a walking dollar bill animated graphic to everything, in fact more animations are better.
Use lots of clipart all over your slides.
always use a busy animated background.
Include screenshots of a spreadsheet that are too damn tiny to see anything.
cheezy humor.
At least that is what I guess they are teaching at colleges, out new director of marketing that has a MBA in communication and Business Must have went to a powerpoint training class at Notre Dame. BTW, he puts his degrees and alma-matter on EVERY fricking presentation he does.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
And now please welcome President Abraham Lincoln.
Good morning. Just a second while I get this connection to work. Um, my name is Abe Lincoln and I'm your president. While we're waiting, I want to thank Judge David Wills, chairman of the committee supervising the dedication of the Gettysburg cemetery. It's great to be here, Dave, and you and the committee are doing a great job. Gee, sometimes this new technology does have glitches, but we couldn't live without it, could we? Oh - is it ready? OK, here we go:
Click here to start
http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/
Various instances of the same abstract(ed), (de)based class.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
They can research all they want, but everyone knows how to make a powerpoint presentation *ahem* "memorable"...
Narrator: that's when you'll catch a flash of Tyler's contribution to the film.
[the audience is watching the film, the pornography flashes for a split second]
Narrator: Nobody knows that they saw it, but they did...
Tyler Durden: A nice, big, cock...
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Wrong. Once you have relegated a topic to a powerpoint presentation, it is a money sink. It is impossible for any productive or profitable information to be conveyed via powerpoint. Possible topics for powerpoints:
Why did our project fail?
Where did all of our money go anyway?
How much are we spending on these powerpoint presentations?
Who cares about this meeting anyway?
What did I do wrong to be subjected to a 60 page powerpoint?
Future projects that are going to fail because the only forethought that went into them was a bullet point on a powerpoint slide.
Powerpoint exists to give busywork to non-contributors. It keeps them out of the way of people doing real work. If you don't believe me, try firing all of the people whose primary job is to work on powerpoint presentations and see if the productivity of the organization sky rockets.
That's a great method as long as you make certain to use local files. I saw one presentation where the presenter had posted his web presentation to his geocities account and ran it off there. Every time he advanced a "slide", an ad came up.
Do you have a PPT of the article?
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No, there should be a different transition per bullet point, and they should take at least three seconds each. Make sure each level of bullet point is in a different font too.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.