[Year 12 IT Apps] Powerpoint and DRM

[Timmer-Arends]

Hello Roland

<snip>PowerPoint Presentations are a disaster - new research shows that the 
human brain processes and retains more information if it is digested in 
either its verbal or written form, but not both at the same time.
http://tinyurl.com/2z4yrx
</snip>

Interesting to see that research has supported what some people have been 
arguing for a long time now, but then I would also note that the report 
says:
"It is effective to speak to a diagram, because it presents information in a 
different form. " - so (as the cliche would have it) PPT is not bad per se, 
it's how you use it.

Attached an interesting article I found some time ago - unfortunately I 
converted it a Word doc and no longer have the refs. Also 
http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/making.html and its links make an 
interesting reading

Regards
Robert T-A
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