It is safe to say that I am not a fan of Powerpoint Presentations. The constant changing of the slides and the monotone voice of the person giving the presentation only puts me to sleep. Slides do not serve any purpose if the presenter is only putting small amounts of information on each one. This concept is used by many of my professors at school, therefore, instead of giving us one display of notes the class has to suffer through thirty slides of useless PowerPoint presentations.
"With so little information per slide, many, many slides are needed. Audiences consequently endure a relentless sequentiality, one damn slide after another. When information is stacked in time, it is difficult to understand context and evaluate relationships."http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html
I can not honestly say powerpoints are making people stupid, but I can say it takes the entire point out of having someone stand up and give a presentation if all the audience has to do is sit there and read silently the brief info and then flip more information.
Some audience members may feel lost as well when it comes to powerpoint because no one takes the time out to explain what exactly it is that your are reading or observing. For example if the powerpoint is too complicated to understand then the crowd is quickly lost and the purpose of the presentation is gone as well.
“When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war,” General McChrystal dryly remarked ."
I have not recently seen a powerpoint presentation used correctly. The old fashion format with a one word bullet and the presenter spends time elaborating on that topic always seemed more useful because the information I need to know is not just placed in front of me, but I need to pay attention in order to know the important information that is being given throughout the presentation.
So in short powerpoints are good when they are serving a purpose otherwise just stand there and talk without presentations and the information will still be received the same way.
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Yes and that is why I shall start using Prezi as opposed to the Power Point presentation. I can definitely relate because I took ACOM in the Spring and there were countless times the speakers just typed their whole speech on their presentation's slides. The class therefore really did not need the speaker to experience the presentation.
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