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Re: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint

• To: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Subject: Re: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
• From: jcowan@r...
• Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:08:25 -0500
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Jonathan Robie scripsit:
> I just finished presenting an 8 hour tutorial and two presentations using 
> PowerPoint at a conference where they strongly prefer that we write our 
> presentations in XML. 

I did too, but I used XML, namely OpenOffice.org Impress.

> What is the "cognitive style" of writing documents in XML vs. PowerPoint, 
> Word, or FrameMaker? Do the tools we use to write affect the way we think?

It's not at that level: it's about bullet-point lists, really.

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