{"id":16,"date":"2006-02-21T16:26:45","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T22:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2009-04-07T05:47:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T12:47:02","slug":"the-cognitive-style-of-powerpoint2-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint\u2026..2 views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=relaxandhavef-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0961392150%2Fref%3Dpd_kar_gw_2%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8%252CUTF8%26ref%3Dpd%255Fkar%255Fgw%255F2%26v%3Dglance%26n%3D283155\">The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint<\/a>, by Edward Tufte<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This 28-page booklet is a great place to start to learn about all the evils of bullet-driven PowerPoint presentations.  Tufte describes several reasons why most PowerPoint presentations are terrible and then shows some examples, including a great send-up of the Gettysburg Address in PowerPoint.  Reading this booklet won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make you a great PowerPoint presenter at all, but it may give you some motivation to study the subject more.  Plus, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s funny in a snide sort of way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=relaxandhavef-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=tg%2Fdetail%2F-%2FB00096ZKDM%2Fqid%3D1140560710%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fv%3Dglance%26s%3Dbooks\">The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: slides are not all evil<\/a>, by Jean-luc Doumont<\/p>\n<p>This article rebuts many of Tufte\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arguments in the above-mentioned booklet.  Doumont points out the logical errors in some of Tufte\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s points and experientially disagrees with him on most of the others.  Doumont has no problem agreeing with the observation that there are many poor PowerPoint\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s presented daily.  He just disagrees with the problems and logic noted and used by Tufte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, by Edward Tufte<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This 28-page booklet is a great place to start to learn about all the evils of bullet-driven PowerPoint presentations. Tufte describes several reasons why most PowerPoint presentations are terrible and then shows some examples, including a great send-up of the Gettysburg Address in PowerPoint. Reading this [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}