Technology is, of course, incredibly useful to most of us. You can do all sorts of wonderful creative things with tech tools. You can also bore people to death with both your work and your explanation of your work. One of those tools that gets used far too much and is the favorite of creatively-challenged, or just lazy, computer teachers is PowerPoint. I don’t know how many computer classes I’ve seen where the students are either making PowerPoint presentations or learning how to play with fonts in Word. PowerPoint has its uses, but does it need to be taught as a separate part of the curriculum year after year?

And while I’m on my PowerPoint rant, administrators really need to learn more about technology, or at least take some well-meaning advice on how to use PowerPoint presentations. I came across a great video about PowerPoint that beautifully satirizes the approach that I’ll be many of us have run across in staff meetings. Take a look at this, and use it with your students – it’s a great way to show what not to do with PowerPoint. Oh, and while you’re at it – show it to your administrators. It may help save you from Life After Death by PowerPoint.