Power Point Poisoning: The medium is not the toxin

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Don't blame the new technology. Computers didn't create this syndrome, they  
just facilitate it. In the days before Power Point, people also used overhead  
projectors -- and then read the projected text to the audience. 
I've seen some world-class plantsfolk do this, mainly because English was  
their second -- distant second -- language. That, I can excuse. But when speaker 
 and audience are fluent in the mother tongue, what's the point? Isn't it an  
insult to your audience to plaster up a billboard, and then tell them what it 
 says?

In a message dated 3/2/2009 9:30:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
szerlag@earthlink.net writes:

In the  days before power point, folks used index cards. When I saw  
them in  hand I knew I was in trouble.
Nancy Szerlag
On Mar 2, 2009, at 8:50 PM,  Dan Clost wrote:

> Too chicken to tell them straight out?
>  Dan

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