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In doing some preparation for my journal presentation I came across a couple of interesting articles on the problems with PowerPoint.  By the way, my journal article is about whether”PowerPoint is Evil”?  A professor at the University of Saskatchewan says that PowerPoint is a poor teaching tool and leads to lazy teachers, lazy students and not much learning.  The article also quotes Ed Tufte, from Wired magazine (sept. 2003)as saying “students would be better off if schools simply closed down on those days [when there was a powerpoint presentation] and everyone went to the Exploratorium or wrote an illustrated essay explaining something.”  I used powerpoint in class last week and had fun with it, but I don’t know if it was worth the time I spent preparing it.