by Jan Schwartz

This article, We Have Met the Enemy and He is PowerPoint, has pretty much gone viral amongst those of us involved in any form of education or training, but just in case you missed it, check it out.

I’ll bet there is not one of us who hasn’t been subjected to torture by PowerPoint in a classroom, on a webinar or at a conference.   But, it is not the fault of PowerPoint!  PowerPoint is a great tool, as is its counterpart over on the dark side–Keynote on the Mac.  It’s the people behind the tool who are pedagogically challenged.

I reviewed a book, PresentationZen, some time ago on this blog site and I continue to highly recommend it.  Whitney and I are true volunteer evangelists for this book!  There are also several blogs that you might be interested in to get better ideas on how to use PowerPoint effectively.   Here are two of them: Ellen Finkelstein who talks in general about the effective use of PowerPoint and Tom Kuhlmann who talks about its use as a tool for elearning.

Don’t contribute to “chicken hypnotizing!”