{"id":5370,"date":"2013-09-05T10:05:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T16:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5370"},"modified":"2013-09-05T10:06:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T16:06:45","slug":"still-teaching-slideware-powerpoint%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5370","title":{"rendered":"Still Teaching (slideware) Powerpoint\u2026.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2013\/09\/ppt_library92013jimzellmer.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"972\" border=\"0\" TITLE=\"Fitchburg WI library teaches Powerpoint Slides. Photo by Jim Zellmer September, 2013\" class=\"alignnone size-large\"><br \/><Br>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/tufte\/powerpoint\">The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In corporate and government bureaucracies, the standard method for making a presentation is to talk about a list of points organized onto slides projected up on the wall. For many years, overhead projectors lit up transparencies, and slide projectors showed high-resolution 35mm slides. Now &#8220;slideware&#8221; computer programs for presentations are nearly everywhere. Early in the 21st century, several hundred million copies of Microsoft PowerPoint were turning out trillions of slides each year.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, slideware often reduces the analytical quality of presentations. In particular, the popular PowerPoint templates (ready-made designs) usually weaken verbal and spatial reasoning, and almost always corrupt statistical analysis. What is the problem with PowerPoint? And how can we improve our presentations? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, the humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related: The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within: In corporate and government bureaucracies, the standard method for making a presentation is to talk about a list of points organized onto slides projected up on the wall. For many years, overhead projectors lit up transparencies, and slide projectors showed high-resolution 35mm slides. Now &#8220;slideware&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5371,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370\/revisions\/5371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}