Save Me From Another PowerPoint!

This is going to be a somewhat random comment, but I wanted to discuss PowerPoint. Recently, I have been incredibly fascinated with the various things PowerPoint can do. Did you know with PowerPoint, you can add sound, video, movement, color, etc??? I never knew this. You want to know why? Because the PowerPoints teachers that I have had made have never used any of those. I don't understand why teachers always make the classic black-and-white PowerPoints with a dash of a picture here and there. Everytime a teacher pulls up one of these presentations, it is my key signal to zone out. I wish teachers who used PowerPoint would zest up their lessons.

Another note about PowerPoint: In IPT we have learned that technology is supposed to help enhance the lesson, not overpower it. But I have come across many instances where the PowerPoint was not working on the overhead projector and so the class was stalled until it was fixed. Many of my teachers rely so much on their black-and-white PowerPoints and because of this, I have become an avid hater of them. I just wish teachers would stop relying on them! The best classes I have had did not need a PowerPoint; the only thing the teachers of these classes used were their lecture notes and possibly a piece of chalk. I hope one day teachers can understand how to use PowerPoints to enchance and not overpower their lesson.