The Pleasures and Perils of PowerPoint
October 28th, 2005An interesting thought on the use of PowerPoint (PP) in teaching, from Wendy’s Journal:
“I think PowerPoint has become a proxy for talking about the kinds of lectures that are, shall we say content rich. That is not necessarily the best way to teach, and as a tool, powerpoint supports it. But is that saying enough?”
I saw many presenters use PowerPoint this week. Some supported the lecture well, and others didn’t. A colleague mentioned that she is a “visual person” and PP works best for her when she is lecturing (“Different strokes”, I replied). This discussion still interests me and I think that many great lecturers use PP as a crutch for something (nervousness?), which does not benefit the attendees, no matter what their learning styles happen to be.
My presentations from this week are accessible here and were done on third-party wiki software.
