Well, according to Wired it is. Poor Powerpoint is the office tool people love to hate. Actaull, in a survey from the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies Powerpoint was rated as #8 in the top 100 tools for learning. In the comments those who voted for Powerpoint stated: “most used, most abused, most versatile (even though most don’t know how to use it well). Besides Keynote, Powerpoint is the tool” Corinne Burkhert “in it purest multimedia form of image, smooth transitions, words to nudge a thought or fire a synapse. Haven’t the bullet-point-readers have given it a bad image? It’s a super fast way to compose a picture for other places – make slide and save as jpeg” Mags Amond “Slide shows for presentations are still very popular learning resources both among teachers and students. Power Point is very comprehensive although it is easy to use. I do not… read more
