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What is the Lived Experience of a PowerPoint© Presentation for Students?

Adams, C.(. (2005). What is the Lived Experience of a PowerPoint© Presentation for Students?. In C. Crawford et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (pp. 794-799). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (SITE) 2005
Phoenix, AZ, USA
2005
ISBN 1-880094-55-X
Caroline Crawford, Roger Carlsen, Ian Gibson, Karen McFerrin, Jerry Price, Roberta Weber & Dee Anna Willis
AACE

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Catherine (Cathy) Adams, University of Alberta & Grant MacEwan College, Canada

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PowerPoint has been suffering more than a few detractors as of late. On the heels of Tufte declaring PowerPoint "evil," the Columbia Accident Investigation Board partially implicates NASA's ubiquitous use of PowerPoint in the shuttle tragedy. And despite Talking Head David Byrne's much touted foray into PowerPoint "art," most of us sitting in the audience would tend to agree PowerPoint presentations often leave something to be desired. So, what is it about PowerPoint? This presentation is a report of the first phase of a phenomenological study investigating students' experiences of PowerPoint in the classroom. The method of inquiry is informed by a hermeneutic phenomenological approach and by the heuristic notions of pedagogical tact and thoughtfulness.

What is the Lived Experience of a PowerPoint© Presentation for Students?

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