In Tuesday’s Washington Post, Ruth Marcus has an article titled PowerPoint: Killer App?. The article ran on the commentary page of the Star Tribune this morning.
The article references Wired magazine’s 2003 article PowerPoint Is Evil by Edward Tuft and a subsequent essay titled The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint.
And of course, it also references Peter Norvig’s PowerPoint spoof of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
The antidote could be the approach by author Cliff Atkinson in his new book, Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire.
I bought the book in June but haven’t yet had a compelling reason to learn its approach. Soon, tho.
