Bullet Points Kill

In the article called Bullet Points Kill by Cliff Atkinson, the PowerPoint application is defined differently than ever before. A PowerPoint presentation with bullet points does not make a presentation. It is harder to understand. This is because one topic is fragmented into smaller parts which are the bullet points themselves. Bullet points just separate one idea and then most likely get mixed up in a person's brain. A way of overcoming this is by a technique that is illustrated by Atkinson. One should get a piece of paper and draw a vertical line down the middle. On the left side, the title and bullet points should be written. One thing that can encompass all of the thoughts on the one slide is written down on the right side of the vertical line. The pictures, movies, or maybe few words that are thought of on the right side are what should be in a PowerPoint presentation. Atkinson proves that there is a reason PowerPoint is in landscape form like TV's and movie screens. These three things should all be alike by the fact that they can "extract understanding" from more than one brain, more than one person, but large groups of people.