PowerPoint Good or Evil?

Is PowerPoint evil or not?

PowerPoint is evil:

Microsoft Powerpoint is used all over the world. It is meant to help the presenter in his or her speech. Bullets have been used for many years and are good, but PowerPoint is almost designed as though it wants dominance over its audience. The speaker is wanting people to pay close attention to his bullets and fallow exactly what they say. Even worse is how much the people use them in the schools. Children are thought from an early age on, how to make PowerPoint presentations, instead of learning how to write reports which are far more descriptive. PowerPoints slides contain little information, therefore many slides are needed. This is normally very boring for the audience and not good for their understanding of the presentation. Normal reports have a lot more detail and explain something much more thoroughly which makes it easier to understand. Also making charts is not such a good idea because they can become very congested, unlike a normal table. Most important of all, it takes away your whole presentation but reading it out for you.

PowerPoint is not evil:

PowerPoint can be bad is one is more concerned with how good the presentation is, than the actual message one is trying to bring out to the audience. However we try to use the more convenient things in life. But many things we do with PowerPoint we can also do with other technology. It is simple and effective to put pictures on the presentation and add some wording to them underneath. The professor could simply add roles of a play and then write who’s they were. He also made up steps for them to work effectively. In addition he wrote a summary of what he wanted each group to make, and could upload it online. The professor also likes reading from slide notes more than his own scribbles. So PowerPoints are very useful for teachers and others because of the variety of things you can do with them.