Facts of PowerPoint

PowerPoint Summary:

Over all there are both positive and negative things about this tool. It can be used very effective, but it can also be useless and boring. I think the most PowerPoint presentations I’ve seen have been fairly good though. Some of the speakers have done a good job on making a real effort with having handouts and notes for the audience. These kinds of presentations I much more prefer than ones that are just boring, and the material is delivered poorly. Also I have been part of the audience of rather boring PowerPoints too. It’s kind of funny when people have flashing animations and similar things, but then I really don’t receive any of the information that person is trying to give me. So sometimes it might just be better to have a speech or write a report on something than even going through making a poor presentation. I like the idea of how well PowerPoint can display certain topics with master slide for example. This can be very useful when one has more than one topic. Everything can be displayed nicely, but when it is all written together and the speaker just reads off of the slide then that’s just a waste of time. Also very helpful is the displaying of charts in PowerPoints I think.

PowerPoint can be used very well in teaching I think. However this would only be useful in some classes. One wouldn’t want to use it in English or Math for example. PowerPoint can be very good for teachers as it helps them get their point across and they can lay out their class period in doing so. I think if I were teaching a class, I would really find PowerPoint to be a good tool as I could more clearly teach students.