… 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.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:29AM
Cheers for the historian. Though I doubt "forget this" was the original phrase when he was forced to do without a motherforgetting chalkboard.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:45AM
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…
August 6th, 2009 at 8:31AM
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.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:35AM
LOL, Dave. Reminds me of the immortal Woody Allen line from Love and Death: “Well, I practice a lot when I’m alone.”
August 6th, 2009 at 8:47AM
PS–kidding aside, my undergraduate mentor, a gentleman and scholar in all senses of the words, was blind. And HE used a chalkboard.