Monday, October 22, 2007

the cognitive style of powerpoint

i think this article is very entertaining because ever since middle school as a student i have had powerpoint shoved down my throat as a great tool to produce and organized presentation, and i agree with a lot of the points that Tufte presents. however, when Tufte was speaking about the bottom 10% needing powerpoint and the upper 10% not needing i feel that middle school students would definitely fall within the bottom 10% and therefore isn't powerpoint a good tool to introduce to students at a young age to help them organize there main points of a presentation?

i also think that powerpoint can be very useful in some presentations like our admittance portfolio's for instance,but they are very inappropriately used when used by NASA so where is the line between PP helping and hurting a presentation, being a useful tool or a harmful tool to us?

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