Learning to Love PowerPoint
-musician David Byrne
-Edward Tufte worte this article
-the new sins using PowerPoint
-found it limiting, inflexible, and biased like most software
-bad-looking visuals
-began to see PowerPoint as a metaprogram
-could attach my photographs, short videos, scanned images, and music
-soon realized he could actually create things that were beautiful
-his pieces became like short films
-genetic engineering
-is very bizarre
-phrenology
PowerPoint No, Cyberspace Yes
-by Tom Creed
-Technology is transforming our lives, including our lives as teacher.
-Technology in teaching is nothing new
-digital technology can enhance our students's learning, but only if our goals for our students'
learning drive its use.
-Electronic Communication is student-centered
-PowerPoint is teacher-centered
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Summary 1
PowerPoint is evil
-By Edward Tufte
-Expensive
-Slideware is everywhere : in corparate America, in government bureaucracies, even our
schools.
-convenience for the speaker can be punishing to both content and audience.
-elevates format over content
-Powerpoint was created in 1984 and later acquired by Microsoft.
-With so little information per slide, many, many slide are needed.
-the data explodes into six separate chaotic slide.
-Presentations largely stand or fall on the quality, relevance, and integrity of the cintent.
-Yet the Powerpoint style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content.
-rather than supplementing a presentation, it has become a substitute for it.
Powerpoint is not evil
-By Tom Rocklin
-textbooks is not powerpoint
-have no doubt that powerpoint can support, and even encourage, very bad teaching, but I don't
count its use among my instructional sins.
-he thinks we are better off asking what pedagogically useful things we can do with a particular
technology.
-local conditions
-teaching journal of the fictitious Professor Pearl.
-Teacher knows that students are having trouble, and used Powerpoint to explain.
-gets ideas from another teacher.
-Powerpoint makes this easier.
-uses Powerpoint in class to explain a problem.
-Will use Powerpoint next week for a lecture.
-By Edward Tufte
-Expensive
-Slideware is everywhere : in corparate America, in government bureaucracies, even our
schools.
-convenience for the speaker can be punishing to both content and audience.
-elevates format over content
-Powerpoint was created in 1984 and later acquired by Microsoft.
-With so little information per slide, many, many slide are needed.
-the data explodes into six separate chaotic slide.
-Presentations largely stand or fall on the quality, relevance, and integrity of the cintent.
-Yet the Powerpoint style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content.
-rather than supplementing a presentation, it has become a substitute for it.
Powerpoint is not evil
-By Tom Rocklin
-textbooks is not powerpoint
-have no doubt that powerpoint can support, and even encourage, very bad teaching, but I don't
count its use among my instructional sins.
-he thinks we are better off asking what pedagogically useful things we can do with a particular
technology.
-local conditions
-teaching journal of the fictitious Professor Pearl.
-Teacher knows that students are having trouble, and used Powerpoint to explain.
-gets ideas from another teacher.
-Powerpoint makes this easier.
-uses Powerpoint in class to explain a problem.
-Will use Powerpoint next week for a lecture.
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