Proof - Powerpoint is bad for you
Researchers at the University of New South Wales in Australia found the brain is limited in the amount of information it can absorb – and presenting the same information in visual and verbal form – like reading from a typical Powerpoint slide – overloads this part of memory and makes absorbing information more difficult. (From The Register.)
Finally, proof of what we’ve all known for years! The scientists go on to explain that it’s the habit of reading out Powerpoint slides that is the problem – explaining a graph or chart is quite different, because the visual and verbal information is different. But simply reading out what you’ve written on the screen is a No No.
Will they learn, though?
pax et bonum
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However, this comment shouldn’t be taken to suggest that I would dispute the fact that Powerpoint is of the Evil one!
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2:40pm on 04 April 2007