Powerpoint's Dreadful Record

PowerPoint is the cause of how many deaths, lost jobs, and business downfalls?!? <-- *insert scoff there* I understand that PowerPoint is not the best presentation tool for anything that you aren’t going to keep funny, short, and sweet. Yet, I think that Professor Tufte was a bit over the top and opinionated I did like Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg PowerPoint which I thought was hilarious. He also had a good point for people who rely on PowerPoint for important matters such as dealing with life and death and/or teaching situations. The last time I used PowerPoint it was for a high school environmental science presentation, because that is where they encourage you to use it, high school. I know anyone who has dealt with inept PowerPoint users knows what I’m talking about or for anyone who has ever taken a class where the professor decides to teach each an hour and a half class with 250 slides stock full of information that 1 you can’t differentiate what is really important and what is just good to know and 2 numbs your brain until all the coffee in the world couldn’t help you using the wall as a giant hard pillow. Yet, I have to admit that I am pro PowerPoint. No matter how many people misuse the little bullets for main points instead of small details (scientists) or read off every darn word as it shows up (teachers and students), it is my savior since I am one of those 10% who cannot speak in public without turning beat red with voice and hands shaking uncontrollably. To my backup when my mind has decided to turn into a big pile of frightened jello, PowerPoint, I don’t care how hopeless and pfluff filled you are and though I will probably never use you again, I salute you.