But the "slide" that's shown in the story is a "mind map" diagram - it doesn't really have anything to do with PowerPoint except maybe the person who shows it could use PowerPoint to display it.
I did agree with the point made in the later part of the story that sitting through a PowerPoint presentation can be "just agony" because the person presenting may just put up the slide and read it. BUT a person can do the same thing with a transparency, with writing on the board, or just reading notes. Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Mike Palij <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not a fan of powerpoint and prefer to see actual text that > especially when explain complex, interrelated concepts. The > military has come to the same conclusion as reported in this > article by the NY Times with the now infamous "spaghetti" > slide of U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan; see: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html?th&emc=th > > Quoting from the article, here is where the evil lies: > > |“PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine > |Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military > |conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) > |Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations > |when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of > |Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening > |PowerPoint to an internal threat. > | > |“It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding > |and the illusion of control,” General McMaster said in a telephone > |interview afterward. “Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.” > > But do not be of the opinion that Powerpoint is without utility. As > the military makes clear in the following quote: > > |Senior officers say the program does come in handy when the goal > |is not imparting information, as in briefings for reporters. > > Perhaps this should give teachers who use powerpoints in class > some pause. > > -Mike Palij > New York University > [email protected] > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aaf72&n=T&l=tips&o=2227 > or send a blank email to > leave-2227-13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aa...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=2228 or send a blank email to leave-2228-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
