Education and Powerpoint Presentations

For better or worse, the use of Powerpoint presentations remains one of the most common content delivery mechanisms in education. Walk down the halls outside lecture halls at Regis and it is likely that a computer connected to an LCD projector is showing some variation of text from a Powerpoint presentation. While the use of Powerpoint and other presentation graphics software remains high, there are many who feel that Powerpoint contributes to poor presentations or worse.

Over the next several weeks we will be posting some resources that highlight the need for better presentation design, ways in which to improve presentations using Powerpoint and alternative software/websites, and how to perhaps move beyond Powerpoint as the cornerstone of content delivery.

Tomorrow we will start of the series by showing where to find existing presentations that may be living on web ready to be seen and even edited by faculty and students.