Monday, October 25, 2010

How Can You Hate PowerPoint?

I 100% disagree with the man who wrote this paper on PowerPoint and how terrible it is. The man talks about how everyone shortens up information with bullet points and adds to many pictures. Does this man not get that it is just an outline for what the speech or lecture is about? I believe that a power point is a visual aid and an outline at the same time. While talking about a person or an event you can have a picture right beside the information which in turn will make the audience or class more interested. I would rather listen to lectures with an accompanying slide show rather than a lecture with no visual aids. I also disagree with him on how he thinks number charts are better than visual graphs. I believe that by looking at visual graphs it shows the comparison of numbers way better and you can understand it at a quicker glance. Overall, I feel that PowerPoint makes everything more interesting and easier to understand. I have no idea where this guy is getting all his arguments from. PowerPoint is the same format as key lecture notes and a visual aid but electronically displayed. This guy defiantly needs to adapt to the modern era and the new technologies!

1 comment:

  1. Strong sentiments, Todd...

    >>PowerPoint is the same format as key lecture notes and a visual aid but electronically displayed. <<

    In a sense, yes...good point. Someone who just reads from the slides probably just read from his notes, anyway...

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