In light of this topic, I thought this day school might be of interest:
Not PowerPoint Again! Presenting research on women in popular culture differently.
University of York, 2nd July 2010
http://notpowerpointagain.blogspot.com/
Registration form: http://www.ziddu.com/download/8247638/RegistrationformAttendees.doc.html
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Elinor Predota
PhD Candidate
Geography Department
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
http://newcastle.academia.edu/ElinorPredota/
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From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jon Swords [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 28 April 2010 09:28
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Subject: Re: Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely...
Another in a long line of articles decrying the use of slideware programs. For an extensive list, see: http://sooper.org/misc/ppt/
For the ultimate, see discussion see: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001yB&topic_id=1
If anyone is interested in an alternative to slideware, http://prezi.com/ offers an interesting set of tools which doesn't necessarily rely on linear progression between slides.
Jon
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From: A forum for critical and radical geographers on behalf of Oliver Belcher
Sent: Tue 4/27/2010 3:17 PM
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Subject: Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely...
So said David Harvey at one point during the AAGs. Apparently the US
military agrees, "likening PowerPoint to an 'internal threat'." Here is a
NYTimes article on the subject from today's paper:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html
<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html>I suppose the US
military, in its pursuit of COIN, hasn't just merely discovered anthropology
and geography, but also the critiques against the Ramist method of
conceiving knowledge in visual terms and the "diagrammatic reduction of the
contents of thought" (from one of Johannes Fabian's books).
One can only hope that the University system will learn a similar lesson...
Oliver!
PS: apologies for the cross-postings.
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Oliver Christian Belcher
PhD Student
Department of Geography
University of British Columbia
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