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By the power invested in my pointer...
Nov. 5th, 2011 03:49 pmYou knows what's irritating about going to school in the 21st century?
PowerPoint.
I sound like a Luddite, I know. And a really well-done PP presentation a joy... well, at least it makes things interesting. I don't like PP "slides" all that much, to be honest. They are glaring, people like to put flashing stuff in them, and the special effects of words and pictures marching up the slide, changing shape, being pixalated, etc, makes my eyes hurt.
But unfortunately it's no longer enough to stand up in class and talk, maybe with a 1-page handout or something easy on the eyes. You gotta give a song and dance. Which, okay, I can't say I'll object too much - dignity is nothing in the face of grades.
But it takes so damn long! It takes me something like a good 15 minutes just to make one slide look okay. (Yes, another reason I don't like PP is because I'm bad at it.) Probably because I can't resist trying to add some bells and whistles, only I wince at it and then reject all of those. And then figuring out which bits of my presentation to go into the slides, etc, etc. In that time, I could have been doing other stuff. Bah.
ETA: Oh shit, forgot all about contract law homework.
PowerPoint.
I sound like a Luddite, I know. And a really well-done PP presentation a joy... well, at least it makes things interesting. I don't like PP "slides" all that much, to be honest. They are glaring, people like to put flashing stuff in them, and the special effects of words and pictures marching up the slide, changing shape, being pixalated, etc, makes my eyes hurt.
But unfortunately it's no longer enough to stand up in class and talk, maybe with a 1-page handout or something easy on the eyes. You gotta give a song and dance. Which, okay, I can't say I'll object too much - dignity is nothing in the face of grades.
But it takes so damn long! It takes me something like a good 15 minutes just to make one slide look okay. (Yes, another reason I don't like PP is because I'm bad at it.) Probably because I can't resist trying to add some bells and whistles, only I wince at it and then reject all of those. And then figuring out which bits of my presentation to go into the slides, etc, etc. In that time, I could have been doing other stuff. Bah.
ETA: Oh shit, forgot all about contract law homework.