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On 9/2/2014 2:21 PM, Bill Norwood wrote:Power Point is a tool, and as such can be used well or badly. The use described below is using it badly--IMO. Many of the descriptions others have given of NOT using Power Point could be done intelligently with Power Point with perhaps some gains in legibility and access. My personal anecdote is to post PP documents on our Blackboard course management software and let the students print (or not) copies for themselves (with encouragement to use the multi-slide print format which most adopt since they have to pay for the printing.) Since I don't have them buy a $200 book that they won't read, this is not a financial burden. I then use the slides during class more or less as an outline to encourage discussions and as a backbone onto which I add examples and details. Here it is 'to each his own' but used well Power Points can be an effective tool and may actually save some paper--or not!
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Hi all, Have you all noticed a person coming in to give a Power Point presentation along with a hand truck loaded with paper copies of each PP page? It is my estimate that this system uses 10 or more times as much paper as should be necessary. Any remarks? Thanks, Bill Norwood, U of MD at College Park
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