genehack: october 2000 archives

And then I remembered: in my haste to get the class together, I’d used the PowerPoint

presentation of the person who was supposed to speak — a presentation loaded down

with various bits of zinging text and dancing graphics. And at that point, I realized

yet another aspect of the PowerPoint evil. Not only does that crap piece of malware

result in speakers spending more time on useless appearance-based noodling and not

enough time on the actual content of what they’re talking about, it encourages the

audience to go into TV watching mode, to sit back and enjoy the little bits of

pixels that go whizzing about the screen.

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Plan Gives Computers to Teachers

The $110 million in state funding is a one-time investment, and school districts that

choose to participate will have to come up with money to maintain and replace the

computers in the future.

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UNC Writing Center Handout | Writing Your Dissertation

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Dissertation/Thesis Guide

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