Not only can powerpoint be interesting, if done well, it can be interactive.
With interactive whiteboard technology (or where students have their own
machines) the content can be created / manipulated by the teacher and the
students working together to build something.
this is quite common in schools and FE now, and we can expect to see it more
and more in HE as well over the next few years.
This is something that is very hard to do with other technologies - lots of
rubbing out and re-drawing and lack of standard symbols which can be pasted
in.
As a couple of examples circuit diagrams can be built collaboratively on the
screen and maps can be annotated.
regards.
Tom.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Networked Learning in Higher Education
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of J.Greenberg
> Sent: 28 January 2003 03:06
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Ban Powerpoint?
>
>
> Some of the discussion on this (by the way, John Naughton is
> a colleague and
> friend of mine) is reminiscent of Mac users complaining about PCs
> everywhere. PPT can be used badly like Web pages and every display
> technology that exists. Equally, it can be used to provide a visually
> interesting backdrop and prompts for a presenter. Its simple,
> don't use
> bullet points and lots of words, use graphics and interesting
> images to help
> you get your message across to the audience.
>
> Joel Greenberg
> The Open University
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Winship [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 28 January 2003 11:49
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Ban Powerpoint?
>
>
> List members may have seen the recent article in the Observer
> (http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,872912,00.html)
> in which John Naughton (journalist and academic) criticised the use of
> Powerpoint in business - "it reduces [public speaking] to the
> rhetorical
> equivalent of painting by numbers - not to mention reading
> out words and
> phrases which their audiences can perfectly well read for themselves."
>
> He has since pointed to some similar articles:
>
> Is PowerPoint the devil?
> http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5004120.htm
> (notes use in education)
>
> Ban It Now! Friends Don't Let Friends Use PowerPoint
> http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,9265,00.html
>
> and to a Powerpoint version of Lincoln's Gettysburg address
> as an example of
> totally inappropriate use: http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm
>
> I guess in this age of increasingly putting Powerpoint
> lecture outlines in
> VLEs and on the Web there's a pedagogic issue here about reducing
> everything, no matter how complex, to bullet points.
>
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> Ian Winship, Electronic Services Manager
> Learning Resources, Northumbria University
> City Campus Library, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST
> email: [log in to unmask]
> tel: 0191 227 4150 fax: 0191 227 4563
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