PowerPoint Is Evil
Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely.
by Edward Tufte
(Author of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information)
https://www.wired.com/2003/09/ppt2/
Tufte is fantastic. His books are landmarks.
PowerPoint Is Evil
Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely.
by Edward Tufte
(Author of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information)
https://www.wired.com/2003/09/ppt2/
I use it a lot to teach Sunday school, and sometimes at work. But to do it right you really need to use the notes pane.
I love this guy’s schtick. He’s like a 21st century Pat Paulson. :)
I might add...
Free money corrupts. Free taxpayer money corrupts absolutely.
Fun article. Still reading it.
Back around the turn of the century, my daughter needed to make a powerpoint presentation for a clss in her Senior year in HS. I helped her out.
We inserted images, music, photos and, of course text and graphics.
But being a computer programmer at the time, I knew how to test After we created it, we saved it to disk. We then took it to a different computer, loaded the disk, and the entire file had none of the images or music in it. Pictures were just big boxes with an x, etc.
That is when I learned about “exporting” rather than saving. So we did it right, burned another CD and it worked when we tested that one.
So, she and all her classmates gave their presentations. She got an A. She told me that hers was the only one that worked. :D
I had a similar problem recently, though. I taught a lesson about some Old Testament stuff and my main titles used a font that I downloaded to my desktop. It looked like ancient Hebrew script.
So I saved it to my Office 365 cloud account, and downloaded it to my wife’s touch screen laptop for the class. It seemed to be fine.
But when I got to class, I noticed it was using simple Ariel font where that one was supposed to be. The font needed to be loaded to my wife’s computer DOH!
I had to go with a different font. Fortunately I set up far enough in advance that I have time to fix stuff like that.
Powerpoint is extremely useful in business and teaching. It doens’t replace a written report. That’s what Word is for.
One of my favorite articles - I always make my Intro to Computers kids read it!