PowerPoint Reading Assignment #2

In Tom Creed's article "PowerPoint No, Cyberspace Yes" he is reasoning why PowerPoint is not a useful teaching tool similar to Edward Tufte's recent article "PowerPoint is Evil".He points out that technology makes it possible for students do something better and even things that are impossible to do without technology. He is mainly talking about electronic communication like email, electronic conferencing versus PowerPoint and which is more useful for helping students learn in the classroom. He says that electronic conferencing is student centered and student controlled. PowerPoint however is the exact opposite; it is teacher centered and controlled. He also explained his way thinking in this quote,"Using PowerPoint in the classroom doesn't necessarily make you a bad person. It does, however, mean that your emphasis is on the quality of your presentation rather than your students' learning." His way of thoughts are very simmilar to Edward Tufte way of thinking.The main difference he talks about it that electronic communication is student centered and is controlled by the students, while the PowerPoint is teacher centered and controlled by the teachers.Just like the article "PowerPoint is Evil," he does not think the colors, sounds and videos as good things to use in the presentation, because it does not really help people to make their points powerfully as it is name, and it is useless.First he was making fun of Power Pint now he wants to lean to love Power Point.