3 ways Power Point can be used well...

According to the required reading, I felt the author wasn't so much saying Power Point was a bad medium, but the way in which its used can relfect negatively on its audience. Therefore, I've been trying to think of ways where Power Point is a good tool of presenting information. This is what I cam up with:

1. Digital Images- In the current art world, digital images are become the typical way to submit one's work for scholarships, grants, competitions, galleries. I think if one's work is good, it'll come across just fine in Powe Point.

2. Add campaigns- Well, the point of an add is the influence one to buy the product. Using a power point, can help the customer see what he or she is buying through visuals, exemplars, and facts. The adverister also must use other means besides Power Point, such as handouts and a good preach to sell the product.

3. Other- Really I think any kind of information can be presented successful via Power Point, however, it should only be used as a tool to enchance the presentation, not be the presentation.

Powerpoint Questions...

In our generation, information is thrown at us, to the point and simple. Do we, the millennium generation really care to think critically about the information/educate given to us? Do we confuse learning and absorbing information as the same thing?

Is the issue at hand Power Point, or our cultures lack of creativity and that it is a good form just used too much in a monotonous manner?

1. Tufte quotes George Orwell at least three times saying: "The English Language...becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts." Granted, I don't actually know any other languages, but English seems pretty tidy and a substantial tool for communicating complex thoughts, if necessary. If Tufte is so critical of English and its shortcomings, why is this entire report in English (not to mention the report's overall comprehensive nature, its richness of content, and its density of words per square inch)? Isn't then his frustration with the Power Point format slightly discredited; couldn't an intelligent mind make an excellent and enlightening set of slides if they really tried?

2. Although it is obviously absurd to imagine NASA making cute slides for eachother, is it really fair to blame the entire Columbia disaster on Power Point?