Monday, October 25, 2010

Is powerpoint evil?

In my opinion I beleive powerpoint is indeed evil because of the fact that it fabricates the direct information given. In today's society for powerpoint software they have apps and stuff where you can make your powerpoint slides all pretty or sparkly and stuff which most definitley takes away from the information being given. Instead of the information given straight like it use to be before computers and such, the information now is given but in a different fashion. To me some powerpoints are distracting and often leave me confused by the end due to all of the miscellaneous things added to each slide. Do not get me wrong though, I am a visual person so powerpoints to indeed help me learn. It's just time has really changed and sometimes it takes a lot longer to make a certain point in a presentation. I also agree with Tufte's statement about where they start early in elementary school making kids do these presentations. I think that is wrong because they are allowing these kids to become so comfortable using bulle style information and when they get ready to write high school level essays, they might be confused. They might have trouble forming complete sentences or ideas due to the fact that they are use to powerpoint. This could be bad.

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  1. Your complaints about PPoint would clearly be shared by Tufte, Kelsey.

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