powerpointless?

Jul
22nd

Fri

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zibzabzob:

You Am I: “Berlin Chair”

“I’m the re-run that you’ll always force yourself to sit through”

I guess I’m all Aussie musically at the moment..I’m not sure why….it’s good though! Obviously there is a lot of amazing Australian bands and music that I’d love you to hear…..I get this song in my head all of the time..

This whole record “Sound As Ever” is genius…

Folks in the States, you have an opportunity to see two of the world’s best bands playing together because You Am I are touring with Sloan.

I’m a huge You Am I fan. I played footy with Tim Rogers at Oakhill College and enjoyed an occasional beer at the Castle Hill Tavern when they were just starting out.

May
1st

Sat

We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint

cameronmoll:

There are so many quotable lines in this New York Times story I could very well copy and paste the entire thing here. Instead, a few gems, beginning with this one:

‘PowerPoint makes us stupid,’ Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.)

And this:

Commanders say that behind all the PowerPoint jokes are serious concerns that the program stifles discussion, critical thinking and thoughtful decision-making. Not least, it ties up junior officers — referred to as PowerPoint Rangers — in the daily preparation of slides, be it for a Joint Staff meeting in Washington or for a platoon leader’s pre-mission combat briefing in a remote pocket of Afghanistan.

And finally, this:

Commanders say that the slides impart less information than a five-page paper can hold, and that they relieve the briefer of the need to polish writing to convey an analytic, persuasive point. Imagine lawyers presenting arguments before the Supreme Court in slides instead of legal briefs.

Edward Tufte would agree.

Another one to add to my now dormant powerpointless?

Nov
23rd

Sun

Best Buy loves PowerPoint

Aug
26th

Tue

Toyota chief: refrain from using PowerPoint

Nov
1st

Wed

Boston.com: U R not listening.

So a battle is underway: PowerPoint vs. BlackBerry. This is the Iran-Iraq war of passive aggression — whom to root for?

Subtraction: Training Keynote Thinkers. How an alternative to PowerPoint rescues the slideshow as a tool for designers.

The Anti-Design Tool — For designers, though, there’s nothing quite as offensive as PowerPoint.

Moneyweb: PowerPoint pet peeves. Originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal – Cubicle Culture – Jared Sandberg: Tips for PowerPoint: -Go Easy on the Text -Please, Spare Us. Rebuttal at Blogging Stocks: PowerPoint: it’s not that bad!

Another PowerPoint truism inflating its popularity: Your own PowerPoints don’t smell.

Daily Athenaeum: Technology isn’t the key to quality education.

Oct
1st

Sun

ScienceCareers.org: Mastering Your Ph.D.: Giving a Great Presentation.

The University of Western Ontario, Western News: The simple game of teaching.

…I generally believe that PowerPoint is the spawn of Satan. It breeds passivity in the students and it disconnects the speaker from the audience. (It also encourages professors to reduce their deepest, most private thoughts on teaching to a few bullet points.)

ars technica: Are teachers and computers responsible for plagiarism?

There is a culture of expectation among today’s students. They just take whatever is put in their hands, be it a handout or a PowerPoint presentation. That way you end up boiling down complex things to three bullet points.

Times Online: Plagiarism ‘is fault of indulgent lecturers’.

PLAGIARISM and cheating by today’s cut-and-paste generation of university students will never be stamped out unless lecturers stop spoon-feeding them a diet of handouts and PowerPoint presentations, a leading academic said yesterday.

Sep
1st

Fri

Philadelphia Inquirer: For students, lessons in patience.

But the cool graphics, easy bullet points, and animated headings that are so appealing can mask an absence of in-depth reflection on complex material.

Russell Davies: five things about powerpoint. Embedded YouTube video (8 minutes 45 seconds) where Russell provides PowerPoint tips from the point of view of an Ad Planner.

Woman Dentist Journal: Power Writing.

Bullets are one of the most powerful persuaders in a letter. The same philosophy applies to a presentation. Too often, I evaluate presentations that have miles of PowerPoint visuals filled with paragraphs of information. The audience becomes numb from data.