[lit-ideas] Re: Poet Managers
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:37:15 -0230
Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>:
> Ursula wrote
>
> > I kind of get my back up when PowerPoint is dismissed in this way. I
> > use PP in some of my lectures but don't begin with anything provided by
> > the textbook companies. I tell my students that my PP doesn't outline
> > the lecture -- it merely illustrates those things which lend themselves
> > to illustration. In other words, I use PP the way I want (often art
> > and music) and not the way you seem to be dismissing here. Nothing
> > personal...
>
> I stopped going to what had been a very collegial annual aesthetics
> conference (in a very congenial setting) when power point
> presentations (the high points of arguments displayed on a movie
> screen) began to outnumber real talks by real live people who could
> speak human to human, thus giving the impression that they cared about
> what they were presenting. PowerPoint cannot replace this sense of
> genuine dialogue, even granted that the 'human' presenter may be
> reading from her own script. I'll bet that Donal can't imagine
> Wittgenstein using PowerPoint. But maybe he can.
>
> Robert Paul
>
Well, I guess a presentation of the diagrams and coloured squares from PI could
be put on screen, in line with Ursula's pedagogy of illustration. But perhaps
more to the point, how would Socrates use PP, if at all?
Walter O.
MUN
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