powerpoint

I found this article to be really entertaining. I agree with what he said about teachers giving assignments and giving students a week to make the easiest PowerPoint presentation, since I have had to make little stupid PowerPoint presentations, just to familiarize myself with PowerPoint. I also thought it was entertaining because I am currently working on a PowerPoint for my marketing class on the creator of Facebook. I do however disagree with PowerPoint not always being useful. I like when I have/had teachers present notes on PowerPoint versus them writing them out on an overhead or giving them verbally. Giving the notes over PowerPoint helps make the notes easier to copy because then I don't have to worry about trying to read a teacher's sloppy handwriting or remember a paragraph of reading as I am trying to write it all down, kind of hard to do. The use of PowerPoint could change after a reader possibly reads this article. The reader could possibly agree with the writer and discontinue the use of PowerPoint, or the writer could influence someone that has never used PowerPoint before in their life and make them not want to ever use PowerPoint. I however did not have my views change on PowerPoint. I believe it is useful when giving notes. To some degree I believe it could be useful during a speech, but it also draws attention away from the person giving the speech and give the attention to their PowerPoint.