Apparently Not Everyone is a Fan of Slideware

This post comes in response to a link that I found at the bottom of a site that Christine had posted regarding the evaluation of presentations....

At the bottom of the site there was one article that caught my eye, PowerPoint is Evil by Edward Tufte. In the article Tufte made some interesting points that although directed towards the business world, are messages that teachers and their students should consider. His big idea is that the presentation is really about the content and that boring content can not be saved through some version of slideware(PowerPoint, Keynote). He talks in terms of the presentation itself not taking away from the content and at it's worst a slideware, "style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content."
This article just emphasizes the care that presenters (teachers and students) need to take when building presentations.
It was a fun read check it out if you like:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.