My Opinion of PowerPoint

PowerPoint is for the most part used in the wrong fashion. PowerPoints are mostly presented with bullet points and are just read to the audience. Bullet points give information in little pieces that are very hard to process for the people listening. PowerPoint does not help much with the default settings on a title and automatic bullet points every time the "Enter" key is pressed. Not many people have been informed about the dangers of boring and unhelpful powerpoint presentations. PowerPoint is not a bad thing in itself, but people have made it into a negative tool by using it in the wrong way. PowerPoing gives an excuse for 5 points a slide that are read to an audience who isn't listening because they have already read the slide.
If I were a teacher, i would use PowerPoing sparingly. The application can be useful for certain subjects, however, I like Tom Creed's idea of interactive things in the classroom using "cyberspace". PowerPoints all focus on the teacher, however, emailing and blogging and sites such as Moodle are interactive and really concentrate on what the student can learn; not what the teacher can teach. I think PowerPoints should really be used to tell a story. Interactive learning in PowerPoint presentations using action buttons or something like that, are the only thing I would use for in-class learning. Using bullet points for myself and my own notes are fine and maybe even for notes for the students to look over at home, however, PowerPoints are not beneficial to teaching.