PowerPoint evil? That’s possible. Tom Rocklin states that PowerPoint does nothing to make sure the people you are showing a presentation to are actually filtering the information. He says that it encourages to passively absorb information by just looking at slides with the possible chance of not even reading them. Tom Creed tells us that PowerPoint makes you concentrate much more on presenting your work well at stead of actually helping others to learn from it. The other text suggests that PowerPoint is pedagogically useful technology that helps to teach better. It’s useful and can be shown on overhead projectors if printed on transparent paper. A teacher from the second text states that PowerPoint is flexible and easy to use. The entertainment that PowerPoint can provide will keep the kids focused. If anyone in his class doesn’t understand the task it is easy to explain to him again and if the students need to look up some information again which will support them in doing their homework they can look on the web to find the PowerPoint presentation of today’s class. PowerPoint only requires to be organized once and never again. It is not a set of scribbled notes and neither can it be lost. PowerPoint also keeps the watchers focused on something so they don’t catch a glimpse of you staring at your notes every now and then. It can give others the feeling that you know fully what you are talking about. PowerPoint can include visuals which have also been proven to be very useful next to a short text to help understand better. Back to PowerPoint being evil though; it can be very disturbing to have the content of a presentation flashing red and zooming around all the time. It can show the relevance of a piece of information but can also distract very easily. If the audience is bored its usually not because of a decoration failure but because of a content failure. We come to the conclusion that PowerPoint is a very useful program that should enforce presentations but not substitute them. The misuse of powerpoint can lead to offending the audience.
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PowerPoint is evil? That’s possible. I quite agree with the fact that PowerPoint does nothing to make sure the people you are showing a presentation to are actually filtering the information and that it encourages to passively absorb information by just looking at slides with the possible chance of not even reading them says (Tom creed).
Power point is not evil it is only pedagogically useful technology that helps to teach better. It’s useful and can be shown on overhead projectors if printed on transparent paper. It is also flexible and easy to use. The entertainment that PowerPoint provide will keep the kids focused and it also helps to explain some stuff to the student that are unable to understand what the speaker is saying which will support them in doing their homework.
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