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RE: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint

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• Subject: RE: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
• From: Henrik Martensson <henrik.martensson@b...>
• Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 07:19:07 +0100
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On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 01:16, Don Park wrote:
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> Tools do affect the way we think just as languages, a tool of sort, affects
> the way we think.  It has less to do with the audience or expressive
> constraints but capabilities.  For example, when we create a slide

I agree completely. When I write a PowerPoint or Impress presentation I
find it very easy to fall into the bullet list trap. It takes a
conscious effort to avoid it.

A long time ago I used Deluxe Video for similar purposes. Deluxe Video
didn't have neither slides nor bullet lists. What it had was a track
based system that made it very easy to animate objects, and to
synchronize several different objects animated at the same time.

Presentations made using Deluxe Video were very different from
presentations made using PowerPoint.

One thing that bothers me is that since PowerPoint is the market leader,
most other presentation tools are designed to be as similar to
PowerPoint as possible. This does not leave much space for innovation.


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/Henrik Martensson

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