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Re: PowerPoint is art

Subject: Re: PowerPoint is art
From: Peter <pnewman1 -at- optonline -dot- net>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:16:47 -0500

Jason wrote:


But PowerPoint is much more than that. Sure, it's just a content delivery mechanism, but it includes wizards and workflows that guide you along and suggest a certain way of doing things. It's not so free-form as a pencil and paper; it's more akin to Mad Libs. Not that it's quite so constrained, but the idea is the same; you're not allowed to do anything you'd like, and even if you are, it's only by subverting the normal workflow, by adding scripting functionality or throwing out the predefined templates (like rewriting the Mad Libs from scratch on their paper).
Sure, it can be entertaining and informative. But the problem is that it doesn't encourage care and preparation of one's presentation, and does encourage *something else*.


The idea is to take your mind off the mechanism and concentrate on content. It's like serving gravy, without the meat. Looks good, no substance gets boring after a while. (Yeah! I know, you like gravy or are a vegan.)
Back to the salt mines, me. You've got a 40 page delivery to make tomorrow.


--
Peter

Sisyphus had it easy




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Re: PowerPoint is art: From: R. Johnson
Re: PowerPoint is art: From: Jason

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