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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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Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure
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Spiro Bolosby Edward Tufte
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Mr. HammondCon article
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magine 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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Rebecca HatherleyParticularly 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.
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Susan NugentBy Edward Tufte, 2003
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Barb Perlewitzby Edward Tufte
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Jeff JohnsonPower Corrupts.
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Joan Vinall-Cox
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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Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure
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Zaid Ali AlsagoffPower Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely! It 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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sue baezdeath by powerpoint
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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. 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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Particularly disturbing is the adoption of the PowerPoint cognitive style in our schools. Rather than learning to write a report using sentences, students are being taught how to formulate client pitches and infomercials... 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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Adriana Lukasagreed
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Gary RitzenthalerWired article on Tufte
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Power Corrupts.
PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely.
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Christian SpannagelPowerPoint Vortrag
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jim turnergreat little overview
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Imagine a widely used and expensive prescription drug that promised to make us beautiful but didn't.
The standard PowerPoint presentation elevates format over content, betraying an attitude of commercialism that turns everything into a sales pitch.
The speaker, after all, is making power points with bullets to followers. Could any metaphor be worse? Voicemail menu systems? Billboards? Television? Stalin?
With so little information per slide, many, many slides are needed. Audiences consequently endure a relentless sequentiality, one damn slide after another.
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.
Such misuse ignores the most important rule of speaking: Respect your audience.
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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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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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Andreas LloydThe 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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Stephan RidgwayPowerPoint Is Evil Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely. By Edward Tufte
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Todd FinleyArticle by Tufte
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David MuirPower corrupts, Powerpoint corupts absolutely.
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