Friday, January 02, 2009

The Curse of the Slides


The semester has already started for two weeks, but my textbooks haven’t arrived yet and the students are getting restless. So I give class notes, and seriously considered giving away the lecture outline PowerPoint® presentation files until somebody reminds me why I never did:
i will use that for my references instead of using textbook
That is an actual quote from an email I received. In the hands of students, PowerPoint presentation files are like poison. Generally speaking, they already don’t read, and particularly hate textbooks. PowerPoint files that summarize whole chapters into a few slides with bullet points they love very much, for it means to them not having to read the dreaded textbook.

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