What would it look like if Honest Abe had PowerPoint at his disposal on that fateful day in 1863?
Quite possibly, this.
Its creator, Peter Norvig, also describes his rationale here, and considers the value of PowerPoint in “PowerPoint: Shot with its own bullets,” which was published in The Lancet.
We don’t need to throw the baby out with the bullet-pointed bathwater, but the Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation might prove useful for those discussing with students (or colleagues) what makes for good (and bad) PowerPoint.
I'm assuming Abe would have had a smart instructional technologist, who would have told him: "leave the slides at home. By the way… have you any interest in blogging?"
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