Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Death by PowerPoint

Every few years they seem to make PowerPoint easier to use, making small changes; a little tweak here, another tweak there. Yet no matter how much they simplify the program, the majority of the presentations made with it are godawful. The PowerPoint about PowerPoint brought up many great points as to why this is the case, all the while doing so in 60 slides without losing my interest. Watching my fellow students present PowerPoints that are only 8 slides long gives me a headache at this point because of their font choices, their complicated and cluttered backgrounds, too much text on a slide, pictures having nothing to do with their topic.

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