Comments on: Presentation Tools http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2007/presentation-tools/ Tech Tools for Academics Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:50:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: TGIF: Weekly Catchup (Week of 9/15-9/21) | Scholastici.us: Student Productivity At Its Finest http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2007/presentation-tools/#comment-23206 TGIF: Weekly Catchup (Week of 9/15-9/21) | Scholastici.us: Student Productivity At Its Finest Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:37:34 +0000 http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/?p=199#comment-23206 [...] Presentation Tools | AcademHack [...] [...] Presentation Tools | AcademHack [...]

]]> By: dave http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2007/presentation-tools/#comment-22996 dave Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:03:05 +0000 http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/?p=199#comment-22996 For a brief explanation of its serious flaws you can see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_point#Criticism" rel="nofollow">this Wikipedia article</a> or you can see this more elaborate presentation on <a href="http://www.seminar.net/volume-2-issue-1-2006/the-rhetoric-of-powerpoint" rel="nofollow">the rhetoric of powerpoint</a>. I would group Open Office and PowerPoint together, but separate out Keynote. What this boils down to is that PowerPoint guides you (thru the default structures) to use bullet points, list of three's etc., which actually yield a bad presentation, the idea that text should be displayed. Rather Keynote is structured as "image design" for slides. I'm not being a fanboy here for Mac, often I just make my own simple slides from another program. But the default structure of many Microsoft Office tools (PowerPoint is just the worst) tends towards assuming the user is an idiot, and towards business uses, which are not always the most effective for academic modes. For a brief explanation of its serious flaws you can see this Wikipedia article or you can see this more elaborate presentation on the rhetoric of powerpoint. I would group Open Office and PowerPoint together, but separate out Keynote. What this boils down to is that PowerPoint guides you (thru the default structures) to use bullet points, list of three’s etc., which actually yield a bad presentation, the idea that text should be displayed. Rather Keynote is structured as “image design” for slides. I’m not being a fanboy here for Mac, often I just make my own simple slides from another program. But the default structure of many Microsoft Office tools (PowerPoint is just the worst) tends towards assuming the user is an idiot, and towards business uses, which are not always the most effective for academic modes.

]]> By: Trevor http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2007/presentation-tools/#comment-22990 Trevor Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:33:29 +0000 http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/?p=199#comment-22990 <blockquote>Powerpoint has serious problems</blockquote> What "serious problems" would these be? For basic stuff, PowerPoint's interface is pretty simple and straightforward. And most other presentation apps -- OpenOffice Impress, Keynote, etc. -- have a very similar interface, so if PowerPoint has serious problems, then they have serious problems, too.

Powerpoint has serious problems

What “serious problems” would these be? For basic stuff, PowerPoint’s interface is pretty simple and straightforward. And most other presentation apps — OpenOffice Impress, Keynote, etc. — have a very similar interface, so if PowerPoint has serious problems, then they have serious problems, too.

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