Starting with Bad PowerPoint

Slideware Instruction and the New Media Composition Course

Session A3: "When Textual Technologies Transform Writing"
Also Presenting: Quinn Warnick, Jacob McCarthy
Computers and Writing 2009
Friday, 6/19/09, 8:30-10:45 AM, UC Davis

Slides and Handout from the Presentation


(Hoping to add presentation audio, eventually...)

Four Presentation Mavens

Nancy Duarte (CEO of Duarte Design)

Seth Godin (Speaker, Writer, Marketing Sage)
Really Bad PowerPoint.  Do You Zoom, 2001.  PDF.
SethGodin.com


Edward Tufte

Comics and Comics Theory
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art.  Harper, 1994.
ScottMcCloud.com
"Scott McCloud on Comics" TED Conference, Feb, 2005.
McSweeney's Issue 13.  (Comics Anthology)
Best American Comics Series.  (Anthologies)
Jimmy Corrigan.  by Chris Ware.  Jonathan Cape, 2004

Film Theory (Accessible Overviews)
Barsam's Looking at Movies. 2nd ed. Norton, 2006.
Includes Dave Monahan's excellent DVD set.
Bordwell and Thompson's Film Art.  8th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2006.
Yale Film Studies SIte
Hitchcock Explains the Kuleshov Effect (by Fletcher Markle)

Additional Links
Robert Gaskins (Co-Creator of PowerPoint)
John Sweller Dislikes Ppt (Cognitive Load Theory) (@UNSW)
Don McMillan's "Life after Death by PowerPoint"
Peter Norvig's "Gettysburg PowerPoint"
Peter Norvig's "PowerPoint: Shot with Its Own Bullets"
Daniel Radosh's "PowerPoint Anthology of Literature"










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