Slide on Over

Readers of these columns will have to wait a bit longer for my Disquisition on the Next Big Thing. Instead let me now propose, in response to a slew of requests (all right, one request) for the Old Thing, to discuss shifting one's lectures to presentation graphics applications. PowerPointTM, an application that is part of Microsoft's "Office" suite, has become the best-known and probably the most frequently used of such programs—but what follows applies equally well to any of a number of other programs that perform the same functions. What these programs all offer to lecturers, or at least to those who like to lecture with a slide projected behind them, is the ability to move, finally, beyond the traditional 35 mm format that dominated virtually every medical lecture hall, and many history lecture halls, for a couple of generations

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