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PowerPoint Bad For Learning

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-how-else-will-executives-waste-time dept.

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."

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  1. Please ask questions after my presentation by TodMinuit · · Score: 5, Funny
    Slide 1: TFA
    • Their right
    • They make good points
    • They are smart

    Slide 2: Cheese
    • Tastes good
    • Great with sandwiches
    • Bad for you

    Slide 3: Conclusion
    • The article: Correct
    • Cheese: Jury's still out

    Thank you, I will now take questions from the audience.
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    1. Re:Please ask questions after my presentation by TodMinuit · · Score: 5, Funny

      You ask an excellent question.

      Next question please.

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    2. Re:Please ask questions after my presentation by UbuntuDupe · · Score: 5, Funny

      And this is how your actual presentation goes (spoken part in italics):

      Slide 1: TFA
        Um, okay, so my name is Tod, and, um, I'm gonna talk to you today about the, um article. We call it, um, TFA, which stands for ... The ... "Farkin" Article.
      -Their right The first point I want to make is, that, okay, basically, they're right. They said, you know, information that's correct. "I think you misspelled they're." *awkward pause* "Um, oh, yeah, okay, I'll have to ... correct that later.
      -They make good points Basically, they make a lot of good points.
      -They are smart And they really made some good analysis, basically, they're really smart.

      Slide 2: Cheese
      Now, I want to talk about cheese for a minute
      -Tastes good One of the advantages of cheese is that it tastes good. You know, when you eat cheese, it tastes really good, so you know, you want to have a lot of it.
      -Great with sandwiches You can add cheese to sandwiches, that's one of the things that makes it good, and then the sandwiches taste really good.
      -Bad for you But gotta watch out, it's bad for you.

      Slide 3: Conclusion

      =The article: Correct So, I just want to say, in, uh, conclusion, the article is correct.
      =Cheese: Jury's still out Jury's uh, still out on the matter of cheese.

      Ring a bell, anyone?

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    3. Re:Please ask questions after my presentation by Kozar_The_Malignant · · Score: 5, Funny

      What is on their right? The cheese?

      No, the cheese stands alone.

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  2. Power corrupts. . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Power corrupts. Powerpoint corrupts absolutely.

    --Edward Tufte

  3. Re:Who's at fault though? by eck011219 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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