Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Thanks for a great semester!!

Thanks, everyone, for contributing to this class blog and making it useful for our class discussions--I hope you learned something by reading and responding to your peers in this digital space. Thanks again for a good semester and best of luck on your finals!

--ejfleitz
there are two opposing views regarding powerpoints, one positive and one negative. Tufte beleives that powerpoints are useless boring ways that everyone uses, where there is no creativity or ways to get a simple point acrosss. Byrne on the other hand beleives they are useful where yo can display numerous slides of helpful information on a certain topc to help get a point a cross, or for something educational.

PowerPoint-Tim Fisher

Each writer describes how PowerPoint effects the audience who is listening. Tufte feels that watching a powerpoint presentation is one of the most boring experiences in life, while Byrne feels just the opposite. These writers just completely disagree with the entire topic.