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induced stupidity, turned everyone into bores, wasted time, and degraded the quality and credibility of communication
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It induced stupidity, turned everyone into bores, wasted time, and degraded the quality and credibility of communication.
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convenience for the speaker can be punishing to both content and audience
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standard PowerPoint presentation elevates format over content, betraying an attitude of commercialism that turns everything into a sales pitch.
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the format has become ubiquitous
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PowerPoint's pushy style seeks to set up a speaker's dominance over the audience
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Rather than learning to write a report using sentences, children are being taught how to formulate client pitches and infomercials.
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When information is stacked in time, it is difficult to understand context and evaluate relationships.
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Visual reasoning usually works more effectively when relevant information is shown side by side.
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Often, the more intense the detail, the greater the clarity and understanding.
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This is especially so for statistical data, where the fundamental analytical act is to make comparisons.
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Everything is wrong with these smarmy, incoherent graphs
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They are uncomparative, indifferent to content and evidence, and so data-starved as to be almost pointless.
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Chartjunk is a clear sign of statistical stupidity.
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Poking a finger into the eye of thought, these data graphics would turn into a nasty travesty if used for a serious purpose, such as helping cancer patients assess their survival chances
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resentations largely stand or fall on the quality, relevance, and integrity of the content.
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If your numbers are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers. If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant.
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Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.
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the PowerPoint style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content.
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Thus PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play -very loud, very slow, and very simple.
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PowerPoint is a competent slide manager and projector. But rather than supplementing a presentation, it has become a substitute for it. Such misuse ignores the most important rule of speaking: Respect your audience.
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It induced stupidity, turned everyone into bores, wasted time, and degraded the quality and credibility of communication.
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in corporate America, in government bureaucracies, even in our schools.
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The standard PowerPoint presentation elevates format over content, betraying an attitude of commercialism that turns everything into a sales pitch.
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PowerPoint's pushy style seeks to set up a speaker's dominance over the audience. The speaker, after all, is making power points with bullets to followers.
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Rather than learning to write a report using sentences, children are being taught how to formulate client pitches and infomercials.
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Elementary school PowerPoint exercises (as seen in teacher guides and in student work posted on the Internet) typically consist of 10 to 20 words and a piece of clip art on each slide in a presentation of three to six slides -a total of perhaps 80 words (15 seconds of silent reading) for a week of work.
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With so little information per slide, many, many slides are needed.
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Audiences consequently endure a relentless sequentiality, one damn slide after another. When information is stacked in time, it is difficult to understand context and evaluate relationships. Visual reasoning usually works more effectively when relevant information is shown side by side.
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Often, the more intense the detail, the greater the clarity and understanding. This is especially so for statistical data, where the fundamental analytical act is to make comparisons.
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Everything is wrong with these smarmy, incoherent graphs: the encoded legends, the meaningless color, the logo-type branding. They are uncomparative, indifferent to content and evidence, and so data-starved as to be almost pointless.
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Poking a finger into the eye of thought, these data graphics would turn into a nasty travesty if used for a serious purpose, such as helping cancer patients assess their survival chances.
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At a minimum, a presentation format should do no harm. Yet the PowerPoint style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content.
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The standard PowerPoint presentation elevates format over content, betraying an attitude of commercialism that turns everything into a sales pitch.
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Visual reasoning usually works more effectively when relevant information is shown side by side.
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They are uncomparative, indifferent to content and evidence, and so data-starved as to be almost pointless.
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Microsoft abandons any pretense of statistical integrity and reasoning.
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Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.
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At a minimum, a presentation format should do no harm. Yet the PowerPoint style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content. Thus PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play -very loud, very slow, and very simple
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the most important rule of speaking:
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Respect your audience.
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Such misuse ignores the most important rule of speaking: Respect your audience.
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Imagine a widely used and expensive prescription drug that promised to make us beautiful but didn't. Instead the drug had frequent, serious side effects: It induced stupidity, turned everyone into bores, wasted time, and degraded the quality and credibility of communication.
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Consider an important and intriguing table of survival rates for those with cancer relative to those without cancer for the same time period. Some 196 numbers and 57 words describe surviv
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A traditional table: rich, informative, clear.
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PowerPoint chartjunk: smarmy, chaotic, incoherent.
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Everything is wrong with these smarmy, incoherent graphs: the encoded legends, the meaningless color, the logo-type branding. They are uncomparative, indifferent to content and evidence, and so data-starved as to be almost pointless.
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Elementary school PowerPoint exercises (as seen in teacher guides and in student work posted on the Internet) typically consist of 10 to 20 words and a piece of clip art on each slide in a presentation of three to six slides -a total of perhaps 80 words (15 seconds of silent reading) for a week of work. Students would be better off if the schools
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(as seen in teacher guides and in student work posted on the Internet
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Imagine a widely used and expensive prescription drug that promised to make us beautiful but didn't. Instead the drug had frequent, serious side effects: It induced stupidity, turned everyone into bores, wasted time, and degraded the quality and credibility of communication. These side effects would rightly lead to a worldwide product recall.
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Particularly disturbing is the adoption of the PowerPoint cognitive style in our schools. Rather than learning to write a report using sentences, children are being taught how to formulate client pitches and infomercials. Elementary school PowerPoint exercises (as seen in teacher guides and in student work posted on the Internet) typically consist of 10 to 20 words and a piece of clip art on each slide in a presentation of three to six slides -a total of perhaps 80 words (15 seconds of silent reading) for a week of work. Students would be better off if the schools simply closed down on those days and everyone went to the Exploratorium or wrote an illustrated essay explaining something.
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PowerPoint is a competent slide manager and projector. But rather than supplementing a presentation, it has become a substitute for it. Such misuse ignores the most important rule of speaking: Respect your audience.
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Kathy GrubbDoing my assignment this week in EDTECH 541 on interactive presentations led me to this article. Wow! How right he is and the fact that it was written 9 years ago and things haven't really changed since then is amazing!
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Michele Day"The practical conclusions are clear. PowerPoint is a competent slide manager and projector. But rather than supplementing a presentation, it has become a substitute for it. Such misuse ignores the most important rule of speaking: Respect your audience."
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PowerPoint, which was created in 1984 and later acquired by Microsoft.
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Students would be better off if the schools simply closed down on those days and everyone went to the Exploratorium or wrote an illustrated essay explaining something.
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If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant. Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.
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Such misuse ignores the most important rule of speaking: Respect your audience.
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Rather than learning to write a report using sentences, children are being taught how to formulate client pitches and infomercials.
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At a minimum, a presentation format should do no harm. Yet the PowerPoint style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content. Thus PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play -very loud, very slow, and very simple.
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sarahkaras88This article is a pretty funny rant by the author on how he believes PowerPoint is evil. I think he might have sat through too many horrible presentations that involved PowerPoint!
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Kate LuciaFunny (and somewhat true) article about how Power Points can be abused by someone who has clearly sat through way too many bad PPTS. Useful to us so we don't make the same mistakes.
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betraying an attitude of commercialism that turns everything into a sales pitch.
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Slideware may help speakers outline their talks, but convenience for the speaker can be punishing to both content and audience.
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Presentations largely stand or fall on the quality, relevance, and integrity of the content.
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The practical conclusions are clear. PowerPoint is a competent slide manager and projector. But rather than supplementing a presentation, it has become a substitute for it.
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Particularly disturbing is the adoption of the PowerPoint cognitive style in our schools. Rather than learning to write a report using sentences, children are being taught how to formulate client pitches and infomercials. Elementary school PowerPoint exercises (as seen in teacher guides and in student work posted on the Internet) typically consist of 10 to 20 words and a piece of clip art on each slide in a presentation of three to six slides -a total of perhaps 80 words (15 seconds of silent reading) for a week of work. Students would be better off if the schools simply closed down on those days and everyone went to the Exploratorium or wrote an illustrated essay explaining something.
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Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.
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At a minimum, a presentation format should do no harm. Yet the PowerPoint style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content.
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The standard PowerPoint presentation elevates format over content, betraying an attitude of commercialism that turns everything into a sales pitch.
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Yet slideware -computer programs for presentations -is everywhere: in corporate America, in government bureaucracies, even in our schools.
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The standard PowerPoint presentation elevates format over content, betraying an attitude of commercialism that turns everything into a sales pitch.
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Visual reasoning usually works more effectively when relevant information is shown side by side.
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PowerPoint Is Evil
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The standard PowerPoint presentation elevates format over content, betraying an attitude of commercialism that turns everything into a sales pitch.
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Particularly disturbing is the adoption of the PowerPoint cognitive style in our schools.
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The practical conclusions are clear. PowerPoint is a competent slide manager and projector. But rather than supplementing a presentation, it has become a substitute for it. Such misuse ignores the most important rule of speaking: Respect your audience.
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Barton PoulsonPower Corrupts.
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citizenwald"Power Corrupts.
PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely."
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Nicolas PalopoliImagine a widely used and expensive prescription drug that promised to make us beautiful but didn't. Instead the drug had frequent, serious side effects. These side effects would rightly lead to a worldwide product recall.
Yet slideware -computer programs -
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Slideware may help speakers outline their talks, but convenience for the speaker can be punishing to both content and audience.
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The standard PowerPoint presentation elevates format over content, betraying an attitude of commercialism that turns everything into a sales pitch.
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PowerPoint's pushy style seeks to set up a speaker's dominance over the audience. The speaker, after all, is making power points with bullets to followers
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Presentations largely stand or fall on the quality, relevance, and integrity of the content.
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If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant.
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At a minimum, a presentation format should do no harm. Yet the PowerPoint style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content.
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Thus PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play -very loud, very slow, and very simple.
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The practical conclusions are clear. PowerPoint is a competent slide manager and projector. But rather than supplementing a presentation, it has become a substitute for it. Such misuse ignores the most important rule of speaking: Respect your audience.
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The standard PowerPoint presentation elevates format over content, betraying an attitude of commercialism that turns everything into a sales pitch.
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Presentations largely stand or fall on the quality, relevance, and integrity of the content. If your numbers are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers. If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant. Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.
At a minimum, a presentation format should do no harm. Yet the PowerPoint style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content. Thus PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play -very loud, very slow, and very simple.
The practical conclusions are clear. PowerPoint is a competent slide manager and projector. But rather than supplementing a presentation, it has become a substitute for it. Such misuse ignores the most important rule of speaking: Respect your audience.
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Lisa Rosathx!!! RT @weiliewei: @lisarosa Klassiker zur dunklen Seite von #PPT: http://bit.ly/9czNfO
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The standard PowerPoint presentation elevates format over content, betraying an attitude of commercialism that turns everything into a sales pitch.
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Chartjunk is a clear sign of statistical stupidity
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If your numbers are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.
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If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant. Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.
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Thus PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play -very loud, very slow, and very simple.
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But rather than supplementing a presentation, it has become a substitute for it. Such misuse ignores the most important rule of speaking: Respect your audience.
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When information is stacked in time, it is difficult to understand context and evaluate relationships. Visual reasoning usually works more effectively when relevant information is shown side by side. Often, the more intense the detail, the greater the clarity and understanding. This is especially so for statistical data, where the fundamental analytical act is to make comparisons.
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Presentations largely stand or fall on the quality, relevance, and integrity of the content. If your numbers are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers. If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant. Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.
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Respect your audience.
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Katherine KrygierArticle about how PowerPoint is misused
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Presentations largely stand or fall on the quality, relevance, and integrity of the content. If your numbers are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers. If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant.
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Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.
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At a minimum, a presentation format should do no harm. Yet the PowerPoint style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content. Thus PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play -very loud, very slow, and very simple.
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