And your students know it.
Excerpts from “Your Professor’s PowerPoint Presentation,” in College Humor.
The same slide show I’ve been
using for five years.
My entire job is to click a
button a few times and read
slides written by my TA.
Copied these points directly from the book.
You won’t believe how much they pay me to provide this effort-free method of teaching….
UD thanks Jason, a reader, for sending her this.
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UPDATE: Anger at lazy professors overusing PowerPoint has become part of campus life. Opening sentences from an editorial at the Stevens Institute of Technology:
As students, we can sometimes feel discouraged that our concerns are not being addressed. Whether we want to see better food in Pierce, more parking spaces on campus, or fewer PowerPoint presentations in class, it is easy to feel that we have no recourse in these matters…
April 5th, 2009 at 2:32AM
This use of pp baffles me. I use it for pictures/diagrammes to talk about, and bullet points so I and they can keep track of where we are in the talk.