Re: Power Point Poisoning: The medium is not the toxin

**K*@aol.com**

The power point chicken really does occur way too many times, but how many  
times did someone ask you the name of a plant and you had to spell it.   I 
showed a caryopteris today and three people wanted it spelt.   First time was 
fine-ish (visualizing it in my mind), second time was tricky,  third time I wished 
to goodness I had put it on the image! In the days  of slides that was not an 
option, so I fully embrace this  new technology that allow botanical names, 
and common names to be put onto  a screen.  Putting your whole dialog there, 
and giving a handout that  reiterates that dialogue is not using the tools at 
their best. 

Kate  Copsey
Garden Writer
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_http://www.examiner.com/x-1321-Atlanta-Gardening-Examiner_ 
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In a message dated 3/2/2009 10:34:18 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
FRIELSTER@aol.com writes:

. 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?

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