Monday, October 25, 2010
Powerpoint is evil
I agree with Tufte's arguments about how powerpoints supply nothing for a reader and take away from what a spoken or written report could give an audience. The bulleted lists, and very few words of a powerpoint mean something to the writer, but often lose meaning with the audience. The writer will assume that the audience can follow precisely what their argument is and the flow of the powerpoint presentation when in reality with such few words it is often very difficult. In schools he stresses that it makes students act as businessmen by forcing them to create business like presentations. While in school children should be focused on learning how to engage and audience and truly make them understand an argument. Also in school students should be given the task of speaking out loud about soemthing and making the audience understand their perspective.
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>>The bulleted lists, and very few words of a powerpoint mean something to the writer, but often lose meaning with the audience. <<
ReplyDeleteThis is a great point. The person creating PPoint may have thought it was useful (and it might have been), but that doesn't mean the audience benefitted from it.