Assignment #3

I think that for the most part, Microsoft PowerPoint is used well. PowerPoint is usually used in learning/teaching-connected purposes. I think it is used well because most people use it to do presentations, I mean no one really plays around with PowerPoint because it is not that much fun. Students all around the world probably at some point in time, have to use PowerPoint to do some presentation for their classes. Most teachers know what a bad PowerPoint and what a good PowerPoint is so this must force the students to use it correctly. The only places people use it badly may be at job-related presentations where their goal is to get the most information on slides with graphs and all other data. This is what makes PowerPoint boring and abusing the use of Microsoft PowerPoint. In one of the former articles I read, is gives an example of a PowerPoint presentation that the Corporation NASA gives for some presentation to show lots of data and information. I would basically keep everything in PowerPoint because you actually can use everything in a good way appropriate to the situation. If I was teaching a class, I would definitely use PowerPoint. I would use PowerPoint because I think it is a great way of teaching. I say this because in one of the former articles I read, there was an explanation to why PowerPoint makes you think better. When you read short bullet-pointed data like on PowerPoint, too much information is not given, forcing you to think more about and in doing so, thinking for yourself. If you were reading a paragraph off the slide, you would read it but it wont make you think as much as reading bullet points and you would forget it more easily because it is too much information for the brain at once. If I were a teacher, I would want my students to learn and think for themselves. Therefore, I would use Microsoft PowerPoint.