I’m sure PowerPoint was useful at one time but not for me. I associate it with un-creativity and hollow corporate expression. In short, I think PowerPoint bites. And that’s why I say, use a blog instead.
In less than a week I will be teaching a college level writing course in a wired classroom. Being the blogcentric gal I am I have decided not only to have a course blog but to use a blog for presentation purposes. I have talked to a couple of other blog/network-centric educators who have similarly used blogs for presentation and I think it’s really catching on. Why? Well, for one thing, those of us who are doing this see blogs as a viable, more aesthetically rich and more participatory alternative to PowerPoint.
Here’s why …