Archive for August, 2008

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IT 5130: Questioning My Use of PowerPoint

August 26, 2008

After reading Tuft’s article “The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within” I have a new perspective on PowerPoint. I’ve been using PowerPoint as the main presentation for classroom instructors, and I question the effectiveness of this now. Why not just provide the class an agenda, and also create extra handouts that would provide more context and substance? Something for me to think about…

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IT 5130: Creating Playlists

August 23, 2008

Songza and Finetune are tools on the internet that can be used to create playlists that can be shared with other people.