From: Ken Friedman [mailto:
ken.friedman@bi.no]
Dear Colleagues,
Interesting debate. Must admit that
some responses raise valid reasons FOR
using PowerPoint. Will respond a bit
later.
In the meantime, suggest that those
who are interested visit the NYT
Web site to read the article in full:
Here is the URL, together with a
few short excerpts:
--snip--
PowerPoint Invades the Classroom
By LISA GUERNSEY
--snip--
PowerPoint -- the must-have presentation software of the corporate
world -- has infiltrated the schoolhouse. In the coming weeks,
students from 12th grade to, yes, kindergarten will finish science
projects and polish end-of-the-year presentations on computerized
slide shows filled with colorful animation, bold topic headings and
neat rows of points, each introduced with a bullet mark. Software
designed for business people has found an audience among the spiral
notebook set.
--snip--
According to figures from Microsoft, the real star of the
classroom may be PowerPoint itself: 69 percent of teachers who use
Microsoft software use PowerPoint in their classrooms, an
application second in popularity only to the workhorse of word
processing, Microsoft Word.
--snip--
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/31/technology/31POWE.html?ex=992335235&ei=1&e
n=fd627834f5a9f494
Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company
--snip--
Worth reading.
Best regards,
--
Ken Friedman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design
Department of Knowledge Management
Norwegian School of Management
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