Found an article on a pet peeve of mine

I finally found an article on a pet peeve of mine...POWERPOINT presentations! I had to tolerate them in law school...fortunate NOT to have them in college. Now don't get me wrong I used to put them together for my old employer and I know how to work the program, but honestly I think Powerpoint has become tantamount to "form" over "content." I just don't think Powerpoint belongs everywhere and I would like to start with college or school classrooms. In fact, among my college professor friends, in this new college culture of "entitlement" as a student, Powerpoint lectures are in fact DEMANDED and complained about if they are: 1) not posted on the internet before class so you don't even have to show up, 2) you must have a Powerpoint presentation and know how to work it well, or you will get hatemail and reported to the administration, and 3) all students must be able to get a copy of the Powerpoint presentation in lieu of taking NOTES, and finally 4) nothing in the Powerpoint better be more than what is on the final...HELLO!...college degrees have been reduced to the bells and whistles of the non-substantive Powerpoint presentation...and in a word....RIDICULOUS! Oh the joy of writing notes and using loose leaf paper with your name and date in the left hand corner!! Honestly somebody needs to do a study and find out how writing or rather "the art of notetaking" is worthy to keep alive because writing while listening simultaneously actually helps you remember the material, and increases knowledge...well this article is a start. It points out that Powerpoint breaks everything down too small because so little information can fit on a slide making it hard to "connect the dots" so to speak and get "the whole picture" of what the lecture is about leaving the lecture disjointed.

I wholeheartedly agree. As the author stated...

Presentations largely stand or fall on the quality, relevance, and integrity of the content. If your numbers are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers. If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant. Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure. At a minimum, a presentation format should do no harm. Yet the PowerPoint style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content. Thus PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play -very loud, very slow, and very simple. The practical conclusions are clear. PowerPoint is a competent slide manager and projector. But rather than supplementing a presentation, it has become a substitute for it.