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Kimberly Miller, at the Palm Beach Post…

… interviews Florida Atlantic University professors on the subject of PowerPoint, and gets some fascinating responses:

… One FAU professor said PowerPoint can be a crutch for “lousy” teachers who drag out the same old lectures, or, um, PPT’s (PowerPoint Presentations) each year.

Another has gone as far as to request a room change when he was put in a techie FAU business college classroom where he had to write on a small computer pad to have words projected on a screen.

“I said, ‘Oh forget this, just give me some chalk,'” said FAU history professor Stephen Engle, who advocates teaching through telling stories. “I want the oldest classroom on the campus.”

Might make a good rallying cry for the growing PowerPoint Pissoff brigade.

OH FORGET THIS. JUST GIVE ME SOME CHALK.

Margaret Soltan, August 5, 2009 10:59PM
Posted in: powerpoint pissoff

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5 Responses to “Kimberly Miller, at the Palm Beach Post…”

  1. Dave Stone Says:

    Cheers for the historian. Though I doubt "forget this" was the original phrase when he was forced to do without a motherforgetting chalkboard.

  2. Bill Gleason Says:

    What the hell, I’ll bite…

    Why does a historian need a chalkboard? I’ve taken a lot of history courses, and I don’t ever remember the prof using a chalkboard.

    Ducks…

  3. Dave Stone Says:

    Why does an historian need a chalkboard?

    Well, I’ve taught without a chalkboard, and I’ve had sex without anyone else there. In both cases, I think the experience loses something.

  4. Margaret Soltan Says:

    LOL, Dave. Reminds me of the immortal Woody Allen line from Love and Death: “Well, I practice a lot when I’m alone.”

  5. Dave Stone Says:

    PS–kidding aside, my undergraduate mentor, a gentleman and scholar in all senses of the words, was blind. And HE used a chalkboard.

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