PowerPoint Limitations

As we know, PowerPoint can be a great tool in the class for keeping focused and on task. Even in a classroom setting it can be misused. Have you ever gotten PowerPoint poison? I have!

In an online setting, PowerPoint really loses its usability for students. It's limitations can be listed as:

• Paper and lecture-centric
• Static and singular
• Serial - not scrollable
• Non-interactive

PowerPoint is designed to make presentations in person. It's great for making handouts and guiding the lecturer in his or her talk, but what if the lecturer and the student are not together?

Once you make and post a PowerPoint, it's not meant to be changeable. Once it's done, it's done.

Scrolling PowerPoint is a bad thing... we live by the 6x6 rule (6 words per line and 6 lines per slide) otherwise things get too messy.

PowerPoint slides are meant to give information only. They do not accept feedback or comments.