A PowerPoint session this morning from my favorite guru over in the academic skills unit. I have a lot of admiration for the style and content of Z and his ability to communicate in clear and interesting ways.

Actually, it wasn't so much a PowerPoint training session as an 'anti' PowerPoint session. It wasn't hands on, more a led discussion around the research that's been done that shows that PowerPoint doesn't actually help students learn and in fact in some cases hinders. Very interesting and although it's the second time through the material for me (it was hearing it elsewhere that got me to have him invited to do the same thing again in the Library), it's such a change of attitude from what we've all been led to believe and trained to do that it will probably take me at least a couple of hearings to let it sink in. If anyone wants pointers to the research, comment and I'll post URLs.