Another boring PowerPoint slide show
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How do you stay awake?
In the good old days, salespeople, managers, team leaders and trainers would stand in front of an audience, they deliver their spiel, sometimes back it up with a few overheads and then go back to the real world.
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In the brave new world of PowerPoint, amateurishly scrawled overheads have been replaced by their electronic equivalent complete with transitional fades, fancy bullet points and text layouts in multiple vomit inducing colours.
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| 15-12-2007 | Death by Powerpoint. How many words can I get on a powerpoint? how many slides can is get through in an hour ? Some people just can't communicate unless they use Powerpoint. If you want to cram loads of words on a PPT chart then use a wordprocessor. | TaffyQuad |
| 14-12-2007 | Powerpoints are a crutch for people who have no communications skills. They insult you by assuming that you are prepared to be bored out of your mind. If you normally do Powerpoints yourself, and are feeling pretty depressed after reading this gripe, he is a way out! Stll use Powerpoint (unless you ...more | South Coast Man |
| 11-7-2007 | jamie,
Your attitude is quite sad. If that's all you want out of education, then you are simply willing to be 'spoon-fed', with no real effort on your part and no real development of the skills that are required in higher education and wider employment. You need to be taught how to ...more | alaneroberts |
| 01-6-2007 | I am crying with laughter, you are soooooo right! They bore the pants off me too. | crossmama |
| 19-4-2007 | I attend school and im in the 6th form, personally I just want a teacher in front of me so they can say what they want us to do and then we get on with it, but no the worst has yet to come nopt only do they tell us we have a presentation do do with powerpoint but its in front of the whole school, no...more | jamie |
| 05-4-2007 | What's more worrying is that Powerpoint is being increasingly used in our schools and colleges. Pity those poor students who actually want a 'teacher' in front of them, rather than some banal 'course deliverer' armed with their Powerpoint presentations. Often, lights have to be...more | alaneroberts |
| 05-4-2007 | Model means pretty girl on bonnet of car. Business model means she does take money. Deliverable means it will be late. Quantifiable means the taxman wants a share of the proceeds. Measurable means a surveyor has to be brought in. Grow really means "grow up". Objective means whatever it mea...more | Dr Johnson |
| 05-4-2007 | Glad I'm not the only one who feels this way! Or should I say we're "singing off the same songsheet"?? | Dino Sore |
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