Evil Powerpoint

After reading this article, I sort of wonder how someone can be so passionately against something like Microsoft Powerpoint, but I do think he has a few valid points. I agree that kids shouldn't necessarily be taught only how to make a powerpoint when doing a presentation or report, but I think there are many ways to fix that. I think that Powerpoint is very useful in the fact that it gives the audience facts and statistics that they can visibly see and better absorb, but the presenter should only be using the slides as some basic information for the audience and should have the bulk of whatever they are presenting written down and should be reading off of that. Mostly, though, I really think Powerpoint is a very useful tool for presentations as it draws the audience in and can keep their attention through some visual aid, but I also believe that it should only supplement a presentation.