8. Focusing Activity Slides Think about how you might apply what you have learned today in your particular discipline. List as many characteristics of a good lecture that you can.
At a minimum, a presentation format should do no harm to content. Yet again and again we have seen that the PP cognitive style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content. Thus PP presentations too often resemble the school play: very loud, very slow, and very simple. (Edward R. Tufte, The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, 22) Who is Tufte? The following techniques are not meant to replace your current use of PowerPoint as an information delivery tool, slide show, etc. These techniques are meant to apply principles of interactive teaching that you probably already use in your lectures or your class activities. These slide suggestions are meant to help you prevent the computer from interfering with your teaching.