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You are leaving out the part about free advertising. Not only are the saving money by using those sites and not creating their own, but they are making more people aware of the game that are not already coming here. Though that is something this game has done from day one, they have let other media sources release sneak peeks of what is coming up, and then sharing links on the website.

The stupid fashion that Prezi is riding is the stupid fashion that a lot of people (myself included) has believed for a very long time that the almost universal application of Powerpoint to make presentations of information has led to a whole bunch of people not qualified to make information presentations doing so anyway with a tool that is easy to use but extremely difficult to use correctly, which often encourages people to obfuscate information, produce misleading structure, and occasionally kill astronauts.

People where making bad presentations long before PowerPoint was invented. See: Flipchart, OHP. Blame the speaker, not the tools.

And it's the ab-use of this kind of software that allows students to produce some interesting stuff. Even weak students can make animated comics, for example.

The standard web format is linear. Presentation software allows a non-linear approach to be used. Again, this is not a new idea. Mind maps have been around for a long time. Which people prefer depends on their learning style. Since pretty much any class will include a range of learning styles, you need to include a range of different presentation techniques.

Don't forget Bots/Nature. Actually I tend to shy away from "perfect" matches and prefer the odd combo's, it makes me come up with more interesting stories.

Only if you can have vines growing on your robots.

You also use this site though, I never suggested taking all content from those sites, but simply to use the facilities this website offers to its maximum.

Only if you want to leave it up 24/7 like the forums, having it only active during set times removes the need for that.

And the rush to embed stuff without having to use other software (See html5 (I think) replacing flash) is because people don't like having to change from site to site, download other software, or give away personal details.

I am in the same boat, I think it is lazy to include a video/audio clip without a text summary.

I work in a college and have to explain to people how to use powerpoint quite a lot, then I see what they are using it for and have to resist doing their work for them.

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People have been writing bad works so there's no such thing as a bad wordprocessor?


Such works have no critical stake in ensuring that the information presented be communicated correctly, which is 99% of what Powerpoint is ostensibly used for.

The web, specifically HTML, was originally designed explicitly to support non-linear information organization, via the use of hyperlinks. Your statement is false on its face. And conversely, the critical problem with Powerpoint is that it explicitly encourages non-linear organization of linear information and pseudo-linear organization of non-linear information through the over-encouragement of the outline format.


You can blame the speaker and not the tool if you like, but this is a serious enough problem that many people have taken to beating the speaker to death *with* the tool, killing two birds with one stone.