A very good writer at Gonzaga University touches all the bases.  Bravo.

Scathing Online Schoolmarm will of course have some teeny bits of writing advice along the way.

Hey Laptop Guy – and while we’re at it, Texting Cell Phone Guy, iPod Guy and, most importantly, Dr. Neat-PowerPoint-Presentation-Professor guy [Drop most importantly -- placing it last in the list does the trick.] - this is the rest of your classroom who might actually be trying to learn something in class. [Drop actually.]

Last week Rod Aminian, the typical “Laptop Guy,” [Drop the typical "Laptop Guy."] made it exceedingly [Drop exceedingly. Stay cool; keep calm.  Intensifiers signal that you're not calm.] clear that taking notes on a laptop saves him time – time he can better [Drop better.] spend on the Internet instead of being an active participant in the classroom. There are some pros to using a laptop in class, namely [Drop namely, and instead of that comma before it, use a full colon, and then write for instance, and then continue with the sentence.] you type faster than you could ever write with old-fashioned hands and crude sharpened sticks for utensils. Maybe you even stay awake through the whole class with the help of your [Drop your; use the.] dozen or so Web sites that you check so eagerly throughout class. This seems to be a good return for some small sacrifices, but what if we consider those sacrifices?

The most notable loss is your presence in the classroom. [Good sentence.] The only thing coming from the side of the room with reachable outlets is “tick-tick-tick-tick.” All the “dolts”[Drop quotation marks.]  in the classroom who so readily and easily converse with the professor only seem to be able to because all the smart kids are busy re-arranging their entire 40 GB iTunes library chronologically. [A rather wordy sentence; tighten and shorten.]  Why don’t you actually demand substance from your peers and professors? [Drop actually.]  Well, because you don’t know what you’re missing while you entertain yourself with gadgets. Oh, and don’t worry about the 10 people that sit facing your screen, they’ve only been staring on and off at exactly how many states Hillary or McCain are maybe going to win in today’s primaries.  [A little awkwardly expressed, but fine.... I mean, the sarcasm is too strongly marked throughout this, but it's okay.]

This process of removing people from the classroom works in reverse, too. I’m sure you’ve had one or two teachers that love their favorite teaching crutch: the ugly, awful, horrible Microsoft PowerPoint. [Hey.  I didn't write it.]  If you are one of the five odd people sitting behind Laptop Guy passive-aggressively watching him write on Susie-Q’s Facebook wall about his super awesome weekend, then you must really hate it when a professor pulls out his flash-drive and wiggles it into the PC in the front of the class. [Sure, he's pissed.  But this is great stuff.]  It takes him or her five minutes to awkwardly stumble [Drop awkwardly.] through every one of their personal folders to find the golden nugget . . . this week’s “lecture,” which is some almighty and important PowerPoint.  [I don't even mind the quotation marks.  This guy is a senior.  He's about to graduate and he's pissed at how bad a lot of his classes have been.  I like him.  His prose makes me like him.  He can rant a bit if he'd like.]  If you haven’t been wowed yet, don’t worry, every word on that presentation will be read, verbatim, so you will get two chances to soak it all in. It’s all about maximization here.  [Writer notices what everyone notices about Powerpoint -- Most Pp'ers insult everyone's intelligence and then lull them to sleep by reading aloud all the words on the screen.]

What professors don’t seem to comprehend is that every one of the students in their class mastered the cool PowerPoint transitions, intricate background designs and awesome bullets systems around the age of 15. We have since ceased to be wowed by the diagonal fades and airplane noises that make the next set of bullets look like it was flown in extra-special just for us. [Excellent detail.]  Granted, there are some times when a nice figure or movie clip has really added to a lecture, and even some classes when a presentation on a project or research has really been aided by the use of a slide-based program, but I’m more wary than accepting anytime I see a flashdrive or CD-Rom come out of someone’s pocket with the words, “My Presentation.”  [Drop the two somes; drop really.]

It’s bad enough that students can so easily take themselves out of class, but what happens when the teacher isn’t there either? Well, you get mother-goose reading fairy tales to all the students who showed up for naptime. [Hot stuff.  Really good writing.]  So this week, I would like to pose a challenge to those of you who seem to be [Drop to be.]  bound to your technological classrooms: Leave everything from your phone (God forbid you get a text message an hour later than it was sent) and iPod to your laptop and flash-drive at home. Try to actually be in a class, actively engaged and demand that your professors be interesting and insightful, or that your students be a part of your class and not merely wandering the slums of the Internet. [Wandering the slums of the Internet is effing poetic.]  Embrace the people in the classroom – not their technological gadgets. You have everything to lose – including the possibility of a genuine education.  [Logic a bit muddled here.  Shouldn't it be everything to gain...?  But who cares.  He notes the symmetry of PowerPoint professor/laptop student; he notes the absolute nothingness this symmetry generates.  And he describes with detail and verve the mausoleum feel of the hyper-technological classroom.  A strong piece of writing.]