Old Fashioned Chalkboard vs. New-Fangled Powerpoint

[kenny6484]

Back from the dead, Kenny has a new gripe...powerpoint lectures. The one thing I can't stand in college, are professors who use powerpoints. Powerpoint presentations certainly have their place, just not in a classroom...especially an engineering classroom. It just doesn't make sense to use powerpoint slides to teach people HOW to do something.

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George Bush doesn't care about Powerpoint

[anonymous]

I hate powerpoint slides as well. Besides the unfortunate effect of boring the hell out of me and causing me to fall asleep, powerpoint slides are generally sloppily made and poorly organized. As Kenny said, instead of having a bunch of slides that build up an idea, it's one slide and you have to try and follow a complex thing from beginning to end when there wasn't a beginning or an end... it's just THERE. I think that there are proper ways to DO powerpoint that could make it a useful teaching tool, I just don't think most professors use it the correct way. Making a slide and reading it to me while you point at something isn't teaching, it's reading.

- Tom

PowerPoint has its advantages

[anonymous]

PowerPoint does has its advantages. When professors put the slides online I find I don't even need to go to the class I can just get the slides online and go through them in a fraction of the time than it would take the prof, big time saver. Plus it helps when I blow off classes and can go online and still get all the information.

Re: PowerPoint has its advantages

[kenny6484]

That's not an advantage...that's just you being lazy. So you're gonna spend $2000 on a class for just powerpoint slides? Not me sir.