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Originally Posted by Bwana

Not worth a new thread, so I used this old one.

DEATH BY POWER POINT

I know there are a lot of you who have been through the same dreadful experience that I had to endure once again this week. Some clueless robot will show up for some "training" and go right for the power point slides. As if that isn't bad enough, most of these sheep read right off the power point slides rather than deviating from them with some kind of interaction and at least give people a fighting chance to stay awake.

This windbag was there all day subjecting us to power point after power point presentation. If I want to torture myself that bad I will just sit in my truck and punch myself in the nut sack every 5 minutes, hell at least that would keep me awake. There were people dropping like bricks and drooling like a mastiff after the first hour. What's worse is most of these clowns have the same personality and a monotone voice and are capable knocking out the worst possible case of insomnia. The 4th of July weekend can't come fast enough.

The best are the multitude of teacher trainings I go to talking about how to teach. Current teaching trends all say to avoid large group powerpoint lectures void of interactivity. Almost all of these trainings are void of interactivity and delivered via powerpoint.