Brown, B. 2011. Powerpointlessness. Ben's Blog. Retrieved from http://bbrown-5.blogspot.ca/2011/03/powerpointlessness.html on 8 August 2012.
This article is quite spot on in derailing the easily achieved pitfall of using Powerpoint. I remember vividly a course we took in our present programme, in which the instructor would come in to class, encounter numerous setbacks in powering up her loaned laptop, and click through her loathsome Powerpoint presentation on the lesson's theme. She read through her Powerpoint, often muttering her surprises when a slide came up with texts scrawled down to all four corners of the screen. She would also read through the texts, and for three and a half hours, we were all bored to tears. Bored is not the right word - rather, we were uninspired, as we felt she was not inspired by her informative Powerpoint presentation. I am never one to "hide behind the Powerpoint", as my UBC Faculty Advisor coined the sad teaching strategy. I find that the article put this phenomenon to the front, and it is nice to know that we in that class had a voice on the Internet.
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