Re: PROVEN: PowerPoint makes you dumb

And for further proof, my personal favorite example of possible misuse of
PowerPoint is here:
http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/

At 09:36 AM 12/15/2003, Leigh wrote:
>There is a small bibliography on this topic at
>
>http://norvig.com/lancet.html
>
>The bibliography includes a link to the May 2001
>New Yorker article on PowerPoint, which leads off:
>
>"Before there were presentations, there were
>conversations, which were a little like presentations
>but used fewer bullet points."
>
>Norvig's bibliography also includes a link to Tufte's page.
>
>I don't care for PP myself but then I'm not
>important enough to need to prepare presentations : )
>
>leigh
>
>Michael Sinatra wrote:
>>This NYT article describes a recent essay by Edward Tufte, the great
>>information-visualization guru, in which he asserts that slideware (the
>>most popular example of which is PowerPoint, but also includes MagicPoint,
>>the OpenOffice slideware module, etc.) is often better at obfuscating
>>information than clearly presenting it:
>>http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/magazine/14POWER.html?ex=1071982800&en=799ad449b398c2d7&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
>>I'd also commend Tufte's website, where the essay and an excellent poster
>>can be ordered:
>>http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint
>>I especially like the "But why read every slide aloud??" thought baloon
>>above one of the Red Army soldiers. (Apparently most slideware presenters
>>don't think their audiences have progressed to the point of literacy.)
>>michael
>
>
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