[extropy-chat] FWD [forteana] Re: PowerPoint is Evil! ...again

[Mike Lorrey]

--- "Terry W. Colvin" <fortean1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
Jacquie says:
> Thats 'cos they don't know how to use PowerPoint!

I have to agree. PP isn't all things for all people, but it also takes
someone who knows anything about graphic design and communications to
make the most of it as well. Considering some of the profs I've met,
the main reason they hate it is because it constricts their ability to
throw information at their audience to managable chunks. Some profs
like to intimidate the students with overwhelming amounts of info, so
the students glaze out and allow the prof to mentally defenestrate them
with questions they can't answer, thus proving the profs intellectual
superiority.
Most of Tufte's complaints are not actually a fault of the software,
but that the users are completely incompetent at conveying information
properly (uh, yeah, thats why they went into engineering, so they
wouldn't have to deal with people). Perhaps they are too proud of their
genius IQs and degrees to pick up a book titled "Power Point for Dummies"????

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Mike Lorrey
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