Re: PowerPoint is art

Subject: Re: PowerPoint is art
From: Jason <jason -dot- deal -at- mitratech -dot- com>
To: Peter <pnewman1 -at- optonline -dot- net>,"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 18:28:15 -0800

But PowerPoint is much more than that. Sure, it's just a content delivery mechanism, but it includes wizards and workflows that guide you along and suggest a certain way of doing things. It's not so free-form as a pencil and paper; it's more akin to Mad Libs. Not that it's quite so constrained, but the idea is the same; you're not allowed to do anything you'd like, and even if you are, it's only by subverting the normal workflow, by adding scripting functionality or throwing out the predefined templates (like rewriting the Mad Libs from scratch on their paper).
Sure, it can be entertaining and informative. But the problem is that it doesn't encourage care and preparation of one's presentation, and does encourage *something else*.


At 09:22 PM 1/6/2004 -0500, Peter wrote:

Hating PPT because it is misused is equivalent to hating pencil and paper because some people scribble with it. A PPT presentation can be entertaining and enjoyable, or it can be drab and uninteresting. I wonder if the reason some users have an aversion to RTFM can somehow be found in this thread.







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