Power Point (Kevin)

In this reading it is clear that Edward Tufte does not like power points. I think what he is trying to get at is that power points take away from the actual presentation. If you are trying to explain something and you are using a power point then you need to make sure all of your information is shown and if you are going into great detail then you are going to have a lot of slide which will end up boring people. You can try to make them better by adding color or movement but that is just going to take away from your main point more and nobody will end up getting anything out of your presentation. He also doesn't like how they are being used in schools. Instead of writing a paper kids will only have to make a quick bulleted list about a topic. And once the kids get their information down, which is probably not a lot, then they can work on making the power point look cool. I know when i was in school and we would have to make power points I would spend most of my time on the look of the power point rather than the information on it. So I would have to agree with Edward Tufte in saying that power points are evil.